Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 28, 2011

As usage of tools like CoTweet (client) and Hootsuite soar, this becomes an ever-more-likely scenario. A more recent occurrence was from my friend April Riggs, formerly the community manager for Sweet Leaf Tea. April and Sweet Leaf were profiled in my book The NOW Revolution ).

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Jeff Esposito

JUNE 13, 2011

Tools like CoTweet, Hootsuite and Tweetstats allow you to measure these things. On Facebook, the Insights tool mentioned above allows you to drill down to see what builds the most engagement among your community. Quality assurance.

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 28, 2009

It was really an impulsive decision but I stuck with it so far and I am beginning to reap the rewards of managing a local blog for the community. The community that has been built continues to surprise me. I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. I setup a Twitter account almost immediately when I started the blog.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor, Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. Most importantly, I apologize to all of you who have made Ma.gnolia a home for your bookmarks and community.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 24, 2009

Created by Federated Media, in partnership with Microsoft, ExecTweets is a platform that aggregates the tweets of top business execs and empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets. ExecTweets is a resource to help you find and follow the top business executives on Twitter.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 24, 2009

Created by Federated Media, in partnership with Microsoft, ExecTweets is a platform that aggregates the tweets of top business execs and empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets. ExecTweets is a resource to help you find and follow the top business executives on Twitter.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This caused such an outcry by the Facebook community that several groups formed almost immediately calling for Facebook to change their terms of service back to normal. This didn’t seem to be enough for the community and the people kept complaining. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Jered I think you hit the nail on the head, here. Warm fuzzies. I have nothing of value to add to this conversation other then reiterating (again?) that I love when you blog about email marketing.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity from other people and it looked like most people did the same as me. Set it and forget it. Looks like things are changing though.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Interesting thoughts via @jayber here: [link] [link] arikhanson What does the Exact Target/CoTweet marriage mean for you and your brand?

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We help people in need share their “epic&# true stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help them acquire the financial resources they need to create positive “change&# in their communities. I understand that many people think “We need schools and money for things in America.&#.

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Depending on how many other people are writing in your community, you have the chance of pissing off a few people. It’s completely focused on the city and community. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Why local blogging is important I recently wrote about a new blog I started called the Mayor of Concord.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. There are MANY other sites like these and I have gotten great results from a lot of them. These are the two places I got my start. town and city.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

But I don’t need that to get the blog becoming the central hub for the community, which is the plan. I’m comfortable with WordPress as a platform (That’s what this blog is too) but I don’t know all the backend stuff that could really make it shine. Once someone starts talking.htaccess I’m lost.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

You might be a thought leader in your community. Either that or you follow your Mom and she follows you. A ratio of 2.0 or above shows that you are a popular person and people want to hear what you have to say. You like to hear yourself talk.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

You might be a thought leader in your community. Either that or you follow your Mom and she follows you. A ratio of 2.0 or above shows that you are a popular person and people want to hear what you have to say. You like to hear yourself talk.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

But I don’t need that to get the blog becoming the central hub for the community, which is the plan. I’m comfortable with WordPress as a platform (That’s what this blog is too) but I don’t know all the backend stuff that could really make it shine. Once someone starts talking.htaccess I’m lost.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

He said my background would be something interesting that the community may want to read about. The writer André Gensburger who is also the co-publisher for the paper first entertained the idea of talking with me a few months ago. The topic of the article was to talk about how I have adjusted post Iraq.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 1, 2008

While writing that post, I started getting more involved with the StumbleUpon community and started looking through other peoples profiles for great sites I had never come across. Much love for the StumbleUpon community Many people on StumbleUpon do not blog anywhere else and use StumbleUpon as their primary micro blog of sorts.

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Jeff Esposito

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Communications and customer service folks have been utilizing tools and building communities and brand awareness while driving revenue as a secondary benefit. There is no question that social media is the hotness for the 2010-2011 fiscal years for companies.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a new search engine news community on kikolani.com. 5 underused Twitter clients – beyond Tweetdeck, CoTweet, and HootSuite. The Resources Mashup. Blogging / Writing.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Product summary by CNET The good: Revolutionary controller design offers unique motion-sensitive gameplay options; built-in Wi-Fi delivers free online services and gameplay; Virtual Console has major nostalgia appeal; compatible with all GameCube games and controllers; built-in SD slot for storage and photo viewing; includes Wii Sports game; most affordable (..)

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 8, 2009

Once you start getting more involved with the Twitter you will see that it is really a community of people that just want to give constant updates to people that are following them. Twitter Etiquette As any community will tell you, there are unspoken rules of etiquette that you should follow. coverage here.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 22, 2008

Blacksmith2 of the StumbleUpon community discovered my post and added it to his favorites. So I found a geeky picture to add to the post and put it up. I specifically put the post in a low level category of my site thinking it was not worth any attention at all. I was wrong. Then the shit storm started brewing.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Using MyBlogLog To Expand Your Community Quality vs. Quantity in Social Networking Why I Twitter (And Why You Should Too) The 4 Elements of Getting Videos to go Viral Using Social Media to Meet People How to Run a Successful Competition on Your Blog Defenition of Viral Marketing and Success Stories.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Concerts, Movies and Shows Many communities offer a wide variety of free entertainment through local park districts and organizations. List it on Freecycle , a nonprofit community group that encourages users to give away old items instead of throwing them away. Why pay $20 to see a Van Gogh when you can study his work for free?

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Concerts, Movies and Shows Many communities offer a wide variety of free entertainment through local park districts and organizations. List it on Freecycle , a nonprofit community group that encourages users to give away old items instead of throwing them away. Why pay $20 to see a Van Gogh when you can study his work for free?

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 31, 2013

Everlapse is a new photo sharing app with a community aspect, from the creators of CoTweet. SlideShare (a LinkedIn company) has introduced an infographics player , designed to help optimize visuals and the analytics around them, as well as create an environment to find more of them.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? It will be interesting to watch. It will be interesting to watch.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

If you have a Twitter account, set up a CoTweet account to help manage interactions, and define who is responsible for interaction. Again with the blogging, make sure your blogger or bloggers want to do it, if they are forced into it, you won’t get your posts on time.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

consumers from ExactTarget and CoTweet (they are clients) called Twitter X-Factors shows that just 5% of Americans follow even one brand on Twitter. Janet Aronica Community Manager oneforty.com [link] Janet Aronica I like your point, Ike. Janet Aronica Community Manager oneforty.com [link] Janet Aronica I like your point, Ike.

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