Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2011

Her community outreach on behalf of Electronic Arts was amazing and her engagement with customers gives all of us lessons to live by. What’s a typical day like for you as the EA SPORTS Active Community Manager? There are a number of channels (Facebook, Twitter, forums, etc.) Here’s what I’ve learned from her.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 13, 2012

Periods may not be awesome but Kotex — the feminine care company that manufactures tampons, pads, and pantiliners — is doing awesome stuff online. Over on Twitter, the company is known as @Kotex and their page is ripe with similar questions as Facebook. Women are dishing it up. Guys are participating, too.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But Reddit isn’t the best place for every company. Reddit is a social network with a forum-style discussion structure. Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. Reddit is all about fostering community by encouraging users (a.k.a. What is Reddit?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 17, 2011

A media company. But what does it mean to be a media company? These include forums, blogs, community websites where industry news can be published, wikis, etc. It could be an industry social networking website, it could be an industry wiki or encyclopedia site, or it could be a simple blog. And I fully agree.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The days of the leased social community are fading, and it’s time to re-embrace owned social. Before the rise of MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr, the “original” social media was created in the unglamorous yet impactful world of discussion boards and forums. Thus, the trend pendulum (the trendulum?) It was the best of times.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 14, 2011

Tweet Written by Nabanita Roy , who is a web enthusiast and blogger currently working as a Community Development Executive at forums.com. Companies all over the world are now looking forward to improving their relationship with their customers with the help of social networking sites. Do not set yourself away from the group.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. The chart is populated by share-of-voice readings, so depending on which companies are being talked about most that day, it will adapt.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Sounds like we might already be members of dozens of communities of practice – at work, at church, at school, etc. Sounds pretty simple, right?

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2020

With billions of visits per month and 430+ million active users , the platform represents one of the most engaged communities online. Here’s the thing, though: marketing on Reddit is often an uphill battle for brands who don’t really “get” what the site is all about. How to increase your car’s value by $1B.

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Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Most websites these days have massive amounts of content that must be managed for the smooth functioning of the site. Even more interesting, Drupal is preferred by sites that have high traffic numbers. Even more interesting, Drupal is preferred by sites that have high traffic numbers. Drupal also has a very large learning curve.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 19, 2010

I’m heading over to New Zealand from 12th to 15th May 2010 to participate in social media forum at the Australian Institute of Company Directors Annual Conference. 10.00am – 12.00pm FORUM B: The Commercial Benefits of Today’s Social Networking Platforms. Will you be there? Will let you know. Related posts.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Monitoring The first step in social media intelligence is to monitor multiple social networking sites where your target audience is active. Durex was one of the first companies to use social media intelligence to identify the needs of the LGBTQIA+ community — a market they had previously largely overlooked.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 3, 2012

They have to be eyes, ears and voice of the company in the true sense. Apart from just sending out information, the PR professionals now have to constantly monitor the social media channels and ensure that their company is present on the channels where their customers are active. And it doesn’t end there!

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 23, 2012

Unfortunately, as many have already discovered and many more will continue to discover, successful communities are dependent on many variables, from the accessibility, speed, and reliability of the technology to your community managers. What group/community receives the most visits and/or posts on a particular day? 10% to 49%.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 11, 2012

As the site owner/community manager, I even had someone threaten to come to my house in person so he could discuss the fact that I edited one of his posts for racist comments. 2) Don’t argue just to argue – Community managers can spot them a mile away. Trolls who like to just stir the pot and start arguments.

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. from Australian Movember site).

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 22, 2023

Important sources for conversational analytics include social media listening, virtual agent and chatbot interactions, customer care emails, review forums, sales calls and other feedback channels. These could be direct messages on your social channels or chatbots, or discussions on customer forums.

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Social Media Marketing

MARCH 22, 2018

Social Media today has an undeniable power of spreading information, growing the business and developing community. It is also a vital communication tool in various industries including healthcare. 54% of patients don’t mind with their providers asking advice from online communities for treating their condition better.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

I did a website analysis and custom demonstration for a local IT recruiting company recently. This is a very successful company. They need a pipeline of companies that want to hire them to recruit on their behalf. By Peter Caputa. They’re a leader in their field and they have a good number of recruiters working for them.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve been working with many B2B companies to help them figure out when and how to use social media in their business. 3) Leverage your community – Whether you build your own or rent one from a provider like LinkedIn Groups, a community is a great place to promote a new solution to your existing customers.

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Forums allow you to make conversation and that of course means being able to post whatever you want on the site. Of course though there are restrictions and you need to make sure before you do that the site offers dofollow links, and that they allow you to post URLs at all in the first place.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 7, 2024

Your company is launching a new product, eyeing a new market segment or contemplating a strategic pivot—as a seasoned marketer, your first move would be to conduct a competitive analysis. Alternatively, you can use competitive monitoring and social listening to learn what other companies your audience is interested in.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 8, 2019

When we talk about online social listening, we’re referring to social sites beyond “the big five” (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest). Consider the sheer popularity of sites such as YouTube, Reddit and Quora. At a glance, these sites may not seem totally relevant to your brand. Sounds pretty “social” to us!

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As Florence explains, “Social is a non-negotiable part of driving brand awareness and building connections with patients, physicians and community members. HIPAA regulations also mandate healthcare companies carefully manage customer interactions on social media—which includes preventing patients from sharing PHI, and deleting it if they do.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2012

With more than 90% of companies now using social media to find employees and 82% having a Facebook page , there’s no question that business use of social media has become commonplace. This is as simple as searching within “groups” on each social networking site for your primary keywords and recording the results.

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Hootsuite

MAY 21, 2020

Google Alerts lets you monitor the entire web for mentions of your company, your competitors, or other relevant topics. With its 330 million average monthly active users and 14 billion average views per month, Reddit is a social site you can’t ignore. It monitors not only major social networks, but also blogs, forums, and news sites.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

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. Lots of diverse versions of this.

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Pixlee

JUNE 15, 2020

The fact remains, retaining customers is core to creating a sustainable and thriving community-driven brand. According to Bain and Company , a 5% increase in customer retention produces more than a 25% increase in profit. Reflect Your Community Values with User-Generated Content. In 2020, your brand community wants to be heard.

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Pixlee

MAY 4, 2020

But if the success seen by companies like Adidas are any indicator, now is a good time to prioritize an ecommerce launch. Whether you choose a simple ecommerce plugin for your existing WordPress site or move your store operations over to Shopify will depend on your long term goals, budget, and store type.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 27, 2013

This week on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog. Today I want to dig deeper into some specific things to DO to build community on your blog.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Many people use forums, blogs and different social networks for communication and ideas sharing. Thus, the marketing coordinators of such projects strive for creating a community of existing fellow users or project contributors and attracting more new visitors to the company or creative group website.

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OnlineRockersHub Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Just as it is important to write consistently, it is also important to promote those contents and attract new readers to your site. 1 Take Advantage of Social Media and forums. 2 Join Blog Forums. There are many online forums targeted at the online community. Search for any of these forums and register.

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Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 15, 2010

With that being said, here are 7 “things” you should be aware of as we go forward in this digital world that can carry you and your company towards Web 3.0. 2) There will be a continued increase in the value of communities but you will also see more splintering of those communities into niches. Get serious about mobile.

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Later

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With a strong social media strategy, you’ll never run out of ideas on what to post — and you’ll soon have an engaged community at your fingertips. — they regularly post across multiple platforms and have built a thriving community as a result. It’s also a great place to grow a community who loves your brand.

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