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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

IBM Social Computing Guidelines. In the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere.

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Father’s Day Content Tips to Inspire Community Managers

Ignite Social Media

Father’s Day can be a tough one for community managers. Though they may not be successful at making you laugh, dad jokes seem to be a pretty effective form of marketing, as proved by appliance company HH Gregg’s Jokes From Dad campaign. Why It Works: Sometimes, the best content is that which comes from the community.

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What is hashtagging and how to use it effectively

Sprout Social

According to 72% of our LinkedIn community , hashtagging impacts the overall performance of social media content. The term was first used in 1971 when telecommunications companies introduced the # symbol to the touch-tone dialing keypad. For brands, hashtags can help social marketers reach niche audiences and build community.

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Navigating the Higher Ed Enrollment Cliff: How Social Media Managers Can Position Their Institutions for Success

Social Media Strategies Summit

They have a culture that may look very different from what our campuses, and the communities where our campuses are located, look like,” Dr. Phillips explains. And they may have experiences where they haven’t felt welcomed or felt part of a community.” This message became ingrained in our perceptions of the company.

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How To Start A Social Media Marketing Agency: A Step-By-Step Guide

Keyhole.co

After all, not every company that works in social media is an agency, per se. If you feel like you’ve honed this particular combination of skills and core competencies, you may be well-positioned for success as an agency owner. A good place to begin is with a basic definition of terms. So what makes the agency model unique?

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#SproutChat Recap: How to Use LinkedIn Data to Inform Your Content Strategy

Sprout Social

As with any social network, paying attention to your community’s behavior can save you a lot of time and better inform future posts. Last week at SproutChat we kept our focus on LinkedIn and asked our community how they approach targeting an audience, publishing and amplifying their content on the network. When and how often?

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Interview with SMSsummit Speaker Danielle Wiley of Sway Group

Social Media Strategies Summit

Being at a big agency, we had very strict guidelines, which you would never expect from journalists. Eventually, the time was right to do it, and I launched the company in a very different way from how it runs now. We actually ended up acquiring a community that had about 25,000 members in it. So we started paying them.

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