INDUSTRY INSIGHTS YOUR PEERS ARE READING
A leader of the free world is stripping down one of the biggest companies via Twitter (slicing billions from their market cap). Beverage Company Califia Farms Publishes Branded Magazine 'Pour Over' - MediaPost. It's a magazine with a focus on coffee culture and plant-based lifestyle. All of this, brought to you by the nut-beverage and coffee company Califia Farms. Which company? magazine. online community. pour over magazine. MORE
Do online communities overreact? Staff should be backed on social media and the Community is NOT always right! I am NOT an advocate of “the community is always right&# approach to social media management, you end up making a rod for your own back. MORE
Today we’ll talk about integrating your community into your design. One of the great benefits is that an engaged community promotes your blog, providing word of mouth marketing. How do you show that you care about your community? The company now employs 40 of these people.” MORE
In this article, I’m looking at process vs product journalism, representational democracy falling over, the demise of capitalism, authoritarian aspects of traditional media AND online community hosts e.g. Twitter and the newly found power of Crowd Activism. MORE
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. Speakers: Laurel Papworth, Online Community Strategist, World Communities. MORE
Magazine reading time down 77.5 Before 2005 this would have included customer magazines, flyers or newsletters. Today Owned Media includes digital content, and the central hub is usually the company website. Company employees as ambassadors for example. MORE
there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way. MORE
If you have the relationship with the community, and they like and respect you, it’s tough to turf you out and go with a competitor agency. Build and manage the community and you automatically take on a “public relations manager&# role. Well, what if you manage PR for a cosmetic company? Today you do your best to get them articles in women’s magazines, hand out free samples and so on. As a community manager you ARE the public relations manager. MORE
Now that the customer has access to most of the same channels as companies, what happens when they decide to create anti-ads? Everyone from time to time has made a teensy little negative tweet on Twitter or status update on Facebook or some other online community against a company. MORE
How does social media use differ in B2B vs. B2C companies? As many companies have learned the hard way, unanswered complaints on social networks can go viral, causing real damage to a company’s brand. More than one-third of Fortune 500 companies have active Google+ accounts. MORE
So hey, let’s inflict it on the customer community anyway by paying to get their attention, by yelling at them using traditional ads. The community starts yelling back. In case you haven’t noticed, most companies do Sponsored Posts really really badly. MORE
Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Did you calculate the ROI of the telephone or the company car before you invested in them? Beware the hidden dangers of social media. Social media is all the rage. MORE
Overview of customers and companies on Facebook, plenty of case studies. All your questions will be answered as your facilitator has been managing Facebook Pages with 1 million plus fans for several years and growing online communities in general for 20 years. MORE
One of my clients, a very large sports drink company, has indirectly nudged me into taking a look at the state of what I drink, and ea, on a daily basis. Fitfiend has a nice interface and seems to be a nice little community with a tag line stating, “fit, active, connected&#. MORE
Many casual users of Garmin may only know them as a GPS company, but the truth is that Garmin has been around much longer than the portable GPS has been available, working on equipment for aviation, marine, outdoor recreation, and fitness industries. Jake Jacobson, Garmin @jakesjournal. MORE
Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Did you calculate the ROI of the telephone or the company car before you invested in them? Beware the hidden dangers of social media. Social media is all the rage. MORE
Tweet Situation: When food writer Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source magazine had lifted an article she’d written and printed it in the magazine, she emailed the magazine to inquire about how it had come about. MORE
It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. MORE
Fast Company. Connect with Fast Company. The companys top executives had invited the most farsighted thinkers they knew from around the world to come together in New York and propose solutions to some really big problems. CEOs are supposedly the prime change agents for their companies, but theyre often as resistant to change as anyone -- and as prone to backsliding. Energy Efficient Servers See how HP Energy Efficient Servers can help your company save energy. MORE
To say that this is nothing new, is to acknowledge just how slow companies can be to adapt, and how adverse to change many people can be. I could not believe that if my words resonated, I would be able to find my own audience and build my own community. magazine. MORE
Fast Company has been a darling of the geek set since it first launched. The magazine is full of the coolest gadgets, the hippest companies and really good information and the website is a vibrant community. Like Fast Company’s reputation. MORE
Many, many years ago a dear friend, mentor and local community leader asked if I would be interested in meeting someone he liked and knew for years. Going further back in time, I was still in my teens and I wanted to publish my own music magazine. It wanted help so bad, that I went to a local magazine store and scoured the mastheads of magazines for hours just looking for someone's name and phone number. Today, Shopify is a public company with a $5.1 community. MORE
From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. The types are: Distributed Research Centers, Shared Instruments, Community Data Systems, Open Community Contribution Systems, Virtual Communities of Practice, Virtual Learning Communities, and Community Infrastructure Projects. Community Data Systems. Virtual Community of Practice. MORE
Are you involved in setting the direction for your companys IT budget or strategy? Apply today for a FREE subscription to CIO Magazine! How To Create A Know-It-All Company. Heres how some companies convinced individuals to share best practices. To drive KM at Russell Reynolds, the company circulates a document every afternoon throughout its 32 offices worldwide that shows all outstanding proposals and projects. How To Create A Know-It-All Company. MORE
Paul Haskell , Social Media and Content Marketer at Omaha Steaks , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss curation versus creation on different platforms, success in visually focused social media platforms, and the culture at a family-owned company. via Boston Magazine. MORE
We grow your community (circulation and reach) as well as give you a report on engagement, clickthroughs and hot topics. The Community Crew is an outsourced online community management and social media admin service. This is good for your company and good for you. MORE
Real journalist (and, yes, I knew many back then) were doing the work of the community. They were spending hours at the public courthouse or at local community meetings, and asking the very smart, tough and better-informed questions that the rest of society wasn't bothered with. MORE
The Digital IQ Index®: Magazines report released in June by think tank L2 is a study that ranks magazine brands in 11 categories according to their “competence” in adapting to “the increasingly digital landscape.” Community Size: Impressive. MORE
Community: GoPlow. GoPlow is the Snow & Ice Management Association ‘s (SIMA) online community. Brian believed they couldn’t do that until they had a open community website generating solid content. In terms of community metrics, I don’t track that info at this point. MORE
In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page. MORE
PR professionals are making a big mistake in assuming that every person who is published in a newspaper or magazine (print or online) is a professional journalist with a regular and consistent beat. Here's why: if I just published an article on crowdfunding, do you really think an editor (or my audience) is going to want another article on that exact same topic only about your company now? magazine. Public Relation professionals do the darndest things. MORE
What’s the secret to building a thriving community on Instagram? And today, I’m going to show you some of my favorite strategies for creating an engaged and growing community on Instagram using some advanced tricks of the trade. MORE
As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. MORE
Today’s Sprout Social Shoutout is for is for my company, Convince & Convert. More Jay Today Videos From This Week: Jay Today TV bae community management digiday facebook jay today social media social media operations twitter Video Image via BigStockPhoto.com. MORE
Nissan is one of the few multi-national car companies with a dedicated Hispanic presence. That means money is being sent to TV, newspapers, magazines, outdoor, and even radio advertising before it’s getting spent on Internet advertising. Erich Marx, Nissan @emarxe. MORE
Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Did you calculate the ROI of the telephone or the company car before you invested in them? Beware the hidden dangers of social media. Social media is all the rage. MORE
The post 264: How One Blogger Builds Engagement and Makes a Difference with Online Community Events appeared first on ProBlogger. She contacted anyone and everyone for help – bloggers, friends, influencers and magazines. Uppercase Magazine. MORE
Magazine. Instead of managing a company, you’re managing an ecosystem that is networked and connected over the world. Humanize Open Community Potluck MORE
Recently, a major media company reached out to me to discuss what they called, "a new business opportunity," for Twist Image. The body text of the email went on to describe to the Vice-President of the company (I was dealing with a person at the management level) that our call was scheduled for them to present their credentials to us. Now, not only will we never work with this company, but their image is tarnished forever. I don't want to cold call companies. MORE
But no one tracks how many subscribers never actually open a magazine. Social media platforms aren’t ripping off their investors or advertisers anymore than any other media company who places its value on subscribers. To know your people truly, not just in the way the media company wants you to see them. . Just as other media companies did and will continue to do (albeit in a new and evolved way). Community Opinion social media Vent MORE
A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. And while I don’t have any issues with those sites (in fact I wrote about Facebook marketing in-depth here), but is treating social media like a checklist really the best possible solution for your company? MORE
Every day you hear more business success stories on social media, about hot leads found on LinkedIn or people directly calling a company after checking out their Facebook Page. Social media literally are the means by which your business can relate to, exist in and influence human communities. MORE
Social Media Monetization is becoming THE hot issue in online community chatter. Probably because companies are getting past the “why should we care?&# At least with TV and magazines you know that at least nominally, they are there with some focus. MORE
Bloggers worldwide are proving to be fierce competition for mainstream media, as companies decide how to get the best return on investment for their marketing buck. If you have the following seven things, then your blog and social media networks will be highly valuable digital assets, sought after by major companies. If companies are already paying big bucks to advertise to your audience on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, then you’re in a profitable niche. MORE
The Realtime Report
AUGUST 28, 2012
The Digital IQ Index®: Magazines report released in June by think tank L2 is a study that ranks magazine brands in 11 categories according to their “competence” in adapting to “the increasingly digital landscape.” Community Size: Impressive.
SocialFish
MARCH 9, 2011
Community: GoPlow. GoPlow is the Snow & Ice Management Association ‘s (SIMA) online community. Brian believed they couldn’t do that until they had a open community website generating solid content. In terms of community metrics, I don’t track that info at this point.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
JULY 24, 2008
Fast Company. Connect with Fast Company. The companys top executives had invited the most farsighted thinkers they knew from around the world to come together in New York and propose solutions to some really big problems. CEOs are supposedly the prime change agents for their companies, but theyre often as resistant to change as anyone -- and as prone to backsliding. Energy Efficient Servers See how HP Energy Efficient Servers can help your company save energy.
Convince & Convert
DECEMBER 7, 2015
What’s the secret to building a thriving community on Instagram? And today, I’m going to show you some of my favorite strategies for creating an engaged and growing community on Instagram using some advanced tricks of the trade.
Janet Fouts
JULY 6, 2010
Fast Company has been a darling of the geek set since it first launched. The magazine is full of the coolest gadgets, the hippest companies and really good information and the website is a vibrant community. Like Fast Company’s reputation.
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. Speakers: Laurel Papworth, Online Community Strategist, World Communities.
Laurel Papworth
JUNE 22, 2010
If you have the relationship with the community, and they like and respect you, it’s tough to turf you out and go with a competitor agency. Build and manage the community and you automatically take on a “public relations manager&# role. Well, what if you manage PR for a cosmetic company? Today you do your best to get them articles in women’s magazines, hand out free samples and so on. As a community manager you ARE the public relations manager.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
JULY 24, 2008
From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. The types are: Distributed Research Centers, Shared Instruments, Community Data Systems, Open Community Contribution Systems, Virtual Communities of Practice, Virtual Learning Communities, and Community Infrastructure Projects. Community Data Systems. Virtual Community of Practice.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
JUNE 27, 2008
Are you involved in setting the direction for your companys IT budget or strategy? Apply today for a FREE subscription to CIO Magazine! How To Create A Know-It-All Company. Heres how some companies convinced individuals to share best practices. To drive KM at Russell Reynolds, the company circulates a document every afternoon throughout its 32 offices worldwide that shows all outstanding proposals and projects. How To Create A Know-It-All Company.
Twist Image
AUGUST 11, 2016
Real journalist (and, yes, I knew many back then) were doing the work of the community. They were spending hours at the public courthouse or at local community meetings, and asking the very smart, tough and better-informed questions that the rest of society wasn't bothered with.
Webbiquity SMM
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
How does social media use differ in B2B vs. B2C companies? As many companies have learned the hard way, unanswered complaints on social networks can go viral, causing real damage to a company’s brand. More than one-third of Fortune 500 companies have active Google+ accounts.
Direct Marketing Observations
MARCH 4, 2010
One of my clients, a very large sports drink company, has indirectly nudged me into taking a look at the state of what I drink, and ea, on a daily basis. Fitfiend has a nice interface and seems to be a nice little community with a tag line stating, “fit, active, connected&#.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The post 264: How One Blogger Builds Engagement and Makes a Difference with Online Community Events appeared first on ProBlogger. She contacted anyone and everyone for help – bloggers, friends, influencers and magazines. Uppercase Magazine.
Twist Image
JANUARY 20, 2017
Many, many years ago a dear friend, mentor and local community leader asked if I would be interested in meeting someone he liked and knew for years. Going further back in time, I was still in my teens and I wanted to publish my own music magazine. It wanted help so bad, that I went to a local magazine store and scoured the mastheads of magazines for hours just looking for someone's name and phone number. Today, Shopify is a public company with a $5.1 community.
Webbiquity SMM
JUNE 6, 2011
It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community.
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
MAY 5, 2010
In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Today we’ll talk about integrating your community into your design. One of the great benefits is that an engaged community promotes your blog, providing word of mouth marketing. How do you show that you care about your community? The company now employs 40 of these people.”
Almost Savvy
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Did you calculate the ROI of the telephone or the company car before you invested in them? Beware the hidden dangers of social media. Social media is all the rage.
Twist Image
JANUARY 31, 2014
To say that this is nothing new, is to acknowledge just how slow companies can be to adapt, and how adverse to change many people can be. I could not believe that if my words resonated, I would be able to find my own audience and build my own community. magazine.
SocialFish
JUNE 11, 2012
Magazine. Instead of managing a company, you’re managing an ecosystem that is networked and connected over the world. Humanize Open Community Potluck
Twist Image
APRIL 4, 2018
A leader of the free world is stripping down one of the biggest companies via Twitter (slicing billions from their market cap). Beverage Company Califia Farms Publishes Branded Magazine 'Pour Over' - MediaPost. It's a magazine with a focus on coffee culture and plant-based lifestyle. All of this, brought to you by the nut-beverage and coffee company Califia Farms. Which company? magazine. online community. pour over magazine.
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
JANUARY 5, 2011
As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations.
ProBlogger
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Bloggers worldwide are proving to be fierce competition for mainstream media, as companies decide how to get the best return on investment for their marketing buck. If you have the following seven things, then your blog and social media networks will be highly valuable digital assets, sought after by major companies. If companies are already paying big bucks to advertise to your audience on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, then you’re in a profitable niche.
Dave Fleet
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Tweet Situation: When food writer Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source magazine had lifted an article she’d written and printed it in the magazine, she emailed the magazine to inquire about how it had come about.
Twist Image
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Recently, a major media company reached out to me to discuss what they called, "a new business opportunity," for Twist Image. The body text of the email went on to describe to the Vice-President of the company (I was dealing with a person at the management level) that our call was scheduled for them to present their credentials to us. Now, not only will we never work with this company, but their image is tarnished forever. I don't want to cold call companies.
Twist Image
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
PR professionals are making a big mistake in assuming that every person who is published in a newspaper or magazine (print or online) is a professional journalist with a regular and consistent beat. Here's why: if I just published an article on crowdfunding, do you really think an editor (or my audience) is going to want another article on that exact same topic only about your company now? magazine. Public Relation professionals do the darndest things.
Convince & Convert
JANUARY 28, 2015
Today’s Sprout Social Shoutout is for is for my company, Convince & Convert. More Jay Today Videos From This Week: Jay Today TV bae community management digiday facebook jay today social media social media operations twitter Video Image via BigStockPhoto.com.
Laurel Papworth
AUGUST 28, 2011
Do online communities overreact? Staff should be backed on social media and the Community is NOT always right! I am NOT an advocate of “the community is always right&# approach to social media management, you end up making a rod for your own back.
Convince & Convert
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way.
Laurel Papworth
OCTOBER 1, 2011
In this article, I’m looking at process vs product journalism, representational democracy falling over, the demise of capitalism, authoritarian aspects of traditional media AND online community hosts e.g. Twitter and the newly found power of Crowd Activism.
Akamai Marketing
DECEMBER 31, 2013
But no one tracks how many subscribers never actually open a magazine. Social media platforms aren’t ripping off their investors or advertisers anymore than any other media company who places its value on subscribers. To know your people truly, not just in the way the media company wants you to see them. . Just as other media companies did and will continue to do (albeit in a new and evolved way). Community Opinion social media Vent
Sherrilynne Starkie
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Magazine reading time down 77.5 Before 2005 this would have included customer magazines, flyers or newsletters. Today Owned Media includes digital content, and the central hub is usually the company website. Company employees as ambassadors for example.
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
Paul Haskell , Social Media and Content Marketer at Omaha Steaks , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss curation versus creation on different platforms, success in visually focused social media platforms, and the culture at a family-owned company. via Boston Magazine.
Laurel Papworth
AUGUST 12, 2012
We grow your community (circulation and reach) as well as give you a report on engagement, clickthroughs and hot topics. The Community Crew is an outsourced online community management and social media admin service. This is good for your company and good for you.
Laurel Papworth
APRIL 30, 2013
So hey, let’s inflict it on the customer community anyway by paying to get their attention, by yelling at them using traditional ads. The community starts yelling back. In case you haven’t noticed, most companies do Sponsored Posts really really badly.
Laurel Papworth
JANUARY 11, 2012
Now that the customer has access to most of the same channels as companies, what happens when they decide to create anti-ads? Everyone from time to time has made a teensy little negative tweet on Twitter or status update on Facebook or some other online community against a company.
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Nissan is one of the few multi-national car companies with a dedicated Hispanic presence. That means money is being sent to TV, newspapers, magazines, outdoor, and even radio advertising before it’s getting spent on Internet advertising. Erich Marx, Nissan @emarxe.
Laurel Papworth
AUGUST 5, 2012
Overview of customers and companies on Facebook, plenty of case studies. All your questions will be answered as your facilitator has been managing Facebook Pages with 1 million plus fans for several years and growing online communities in general for 20 years.
Almost Savvy
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Did you calculate the ROI of the telephone or the company car before you invested in them? Beware the hidden dangers of social media. Social media is all the rage.
Almost Savvy
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Did you calculate the ROI of the telephone or the company car before you invested in them? Beware the hidden dangers of social media. Social media is all the rage.
Convince & Convert
MARCH 9, 2010
A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. And while I don’t have any issues with those sites (in fact I wrote about Facebook marketing in-depth here), but is treating social media like a checklist really the best possible solution for your company?
Laurel Papworth
JULY 13, 2010
Social Media Monetization is becoming THE hot issue in online community chatter. Probably because companies are getting past the “why should we care?&# At least with TV and magazines you know that at least nominally, they are there with some focus.
yMarketingMatters
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
Every day you hear more business success stories on social media, about hot leads found on LinkedIn or people directly calling a company after checking out their Facebook Page. Social media literally are the means by which your business can relate to, exist in and influence human communities.
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