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Is a Discord community right for your brand?

Sprout Social

Discord is the future of online communities. Traditionally associated with gamers, the platform has gone mainstream. Gen Z, in particular, is opting to spend time in smaller, private online communities. Discord is not a traditional social media platform. Instead, it is a community platform.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

Video production by my friends at Candidio. Please watch video for entire interview. Somehow, my side of the video got cut out, so it’s only audio for me!). I love your festive red background for videos. It really is a treasure trove of advice and best practices around community management. Deb, how are you?

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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

. #1 Ephemeral content disrupts social video. Video has been a trend for years now, and there is no denying its importance. In fact, this year, video is expected to make up 82% of all internet traffic. Despite this compelling number, brands have been a bit slow to embrace video as a medium. Source: TikTok.

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Beyond integrations, Sprout’s focus on partnership adds value for our customers

Sprout Social

The results will be not only more successful utilization of the Sprout platform, but more compelling community conversations and engagements across your social channels. Rely on up-to-date experiences with social networks and community platforms. If you’re not using some of them already, take a closer look.

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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

It’s about the strategies and methods to incorporate in your communities and social spaces to facilitate mutually beneficial conversations. Be Everywhere The first step that any business needs to take is establishing themselves as a company that embraces community. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site.