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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. It’s what we do.

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

As social media platforms look for ways to further prioritize video, and users seek out more ephemeral, bite-sized content, marketers have an opportunity to incorporate quick videos into their strategies in cost-effective, creative, and powerful ways. 2 Growth of private communities and tight-knit tribes. Source: Facebook Groups.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.