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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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 8, 2010

If you want a really obvious example – even if Twitter shuts down, Facebook removes my account, and Foursquare/Flickr/YouTube and so on disown me, people can still find me on this blog. Fanpage vs community vs brand vs groups. The new Fan page is Community page. Community Pages. Rules change all the time.

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Experiment with Flickr and/or YouTube groups to build media for specific events. Marvel Comics raised my impression of this with their Hulk statue Flickr group). Consider the value of hiring a community manager.

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ProBlogger

MAY 15, 2014

Image via Flickr user Steve.Garner32. There are many online communities available for your readers to reach out to, on all manner of topics – so how can you fill a need that isn’t already being taken care of out there? Creating a Virtual Community to Build a Better Blog. You can join her Virtual 5k race here.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 26, 2011

Image: MorBCN via Flickr, CC 2.0???. A few emails later, the University of Regina Social Media Users Group (URSMUG) was born. That initial group drew people from across faculties and departments. After a half dozen meetings the group took a bit of a hiatus. And there is diversity within groups.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

A recent study by the University of Edinburgh determined that users with high numbers of “friends” were distressed about Facebook for fear of offending one of their social groups by appeasing another. Image: Joseph Swan via Flickr, CC 2.0. What Compels People to Share Your Content? is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 6, 2012

Photo courtesy of RRix on Flickr via Creative Commons. So what I do is call in a group of my smart, talented (and often very nerdy) friends and colleagues and then talk through the challenge. Bring together a group of smart, talented individuals to help the diabetes community in their fight against this disease.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 21, 2012

Just one of the many interesting factoids our group was given when the Regina Police Service (RPS) sent its social media officer, Kaeli Madill, to talk to us about all things Twitter and Facebook. She was there because RPS is a great community partner. In order to build a community you need more. Image: zlady via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Social networking is not about sending messages to like-minded groups of people. It’s about building one-on-one relationships and communicating with individuals and then empowering those individuals to (hopefully) sing the praises of your organization, products, and services to their friends and family.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 10, 2011

We talk often – myself included – about using it to build relationships , about getting to know one’s community, about deepening human interaction. Image: digitalbob8 via Flickr, CC 2.0. “I had a youth group of over 150 teenagers. Image: Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Image: twchoi11 via Flickr , Creative Commons Though I wouldn’t consider myself as devoted as some fan clubs. In August, fans of G-Dragon – a member of Korean hip hop group, Big Bang – fund-raised over $18,000 for Seoul University Children’s Hospital, in honor of his birthday. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2019

In addition, a significant portion of social media marketing is engaging with your community. Pick the platforms where you want to be active; it is a good idea to restrict your focus to the 2-4 largest social networks for your target group. All of this requires constant human input. This cannot and should not be automated.

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Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2010

With Mark Zuckerberg being named the Time Person of the Year for 2010, you would think that there would be a little more thought that goes into the company's approach to privacy, major UI changes, and how those are communicated to the very people those changes affect. He managed to leave the group , but not before the damage was done.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

By maintaining an employee learning group , my backup had approximately 25 other employees in the organization who could assist her with social media monitoring and getting the word out if things got hairy. Image: Paul Bica via Flickr, CC 2.0. Shanan Sorochynski is a communications strategist at the University of Regina.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 12, 2011

But interviews, among other qualitative methods like focus groups, are crucial in the discovery process that ultimately leads to developing a meaningful survey that can be distributed to a larger population and lead to valuable results. Image: PNNL – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

I will continue to interact with like-minded individuals on groups and in the Q&A section. As I seek out more teaching , community management, and consulting opportunities, LinkedIn is where I will share my thought leadership and build relationships with colleagues and peers. Concluding Thoughts.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2012

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). The next step is to identify the influential voices in your community that you’ll want to reach out to, connect with, and begin building relationships with. Find relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. Collecting this information is Phase I.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

This graphic by Forrester Research, refers to the types of people that hang out in communities and what they do in those communities. Share images on Flickr. In closing here are some things that you need to know that I told a group last week and it’s something that I have seen first hand. Upload an audio podcast.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 29, 2015

Constant feedback is preferred; it is said, “don’t beat around the bush, get to the point with this group.” This group likes to accomplish work in group meetings, where their priority is to exchange ideas and divvy up the work load. 1: Communication is a skill that can be honed over time.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2013

Image: TheNextWeb via Flickr, CC 2.0. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. Where Twitter for PR usually begins… and ends. It’s not that people are not already using Twitter for PR. Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 5, 2013

Two articles have recently drawn my attention to a problem I’ve seen in the myriad posts making the rounds in the business/marketing/PR communities. Image: phunkstarr via Flickr, CC 2.0. The first is a response to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer banning employees from working remotely.

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Twist Image

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

This same person has been publishing pictures of their young family to Facebook and Flickr forever, for all to see. Be careful of groups you join. People seem to think that groups are more private. Even private groups are just bits and bytes. If you don't want your privacy exposed, be very leery of what you are posting.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 4, 2011

This is especially true when we’re tasked with speaking to a wide audience that includes groups who aren’t historically considered mainstream. Recruit members of the community to help share your message. Image: Ed Schipu l via Flickr, CC 2.0. This goes for trending topics on Twitter too.). Go to your audience. Know what’s funny.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 29, 2014

If there’s one principle that unites the PR and marketing community, it’s the age-old wisdom that “93 percent of all communication is nonverbal.” Image: José Luis Ruiz via Flickr, CC 2.0. Guest Post by Rob Biesenbach. It’s all about your body language, right? Well, prepare to have your mind blown: that figure is a myth.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But, as the group got larger and larger the content in my feed became homogenized. For now I’m following more people from my offline community: faculty, staff, students, people who live in my city. Image: chantel beam photography via Flickr, CC 2.0. But, for the most part they were all people in my industry. I learned a lot.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 10, 2013

” Image: maHidoodi via Flickr, CC 2.0. By the way, am I the only one who finds this ironic: that a group of official journalistic “correspondents” has not as yet responded to her post? area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

When tied to other accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn and blogs, your net worth rises based on the content you either create or share. It's a chance to connect and brainstorm with others by finding affinity groups ("Communities") within Empire Avenue. What do you think? Have you started an account yet?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 21, 2013

We participate in LinkedIn groups. Image: Simon Greig (xrrr) via Flickr, CC 2.0. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. We engage in banter on Twitter on a regular basis. We host, and participate in, Twitter chats. We do Facebook Q&As.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 22, 2021

One of the things I did to build engagement was to start a Flickr group. I also set up an area of the Flickr group where people could submit tips for me to include in future blog posts. (I They simply wanted to give back to the community. Nest, we sort these applicants into groups (‘Great’, ‘Good’ and ‘Okay’).

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Myrland Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2013

Pro bono and other community activity. Your valued alumni group members. News conferences others hold that have to do with your primary practice and industry groups. Conferences your partners and administrators attend. Your clients speaking. Your new associates. Your employees working on a project. Facebook Pages.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If not, you can draft and field a perception survey, which you can ask your client to send to a specific group of recipients, asking them to complete it anonymously. Image: Willrad von Doomenstein via Flickr, CC 4.0. How do they feature in relevant conversations… if at all? Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2012

You joined a LinkedIn group or attended a networking event. Photo credit: Kellogg Community College (Flickr, Creative Commons). They’re going along, doing their thing, showing up at the office, making phone calls, having meetings, going to trade shows, and BAM! You started blogging once a week. You tweet 3 times a day.

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

53 pm Preventing Social Media Spam Jump to Comments Image by Josh Russell via Flickr Sometimes it feels really sorry to see the tactics of a select group of folks in the name of using Social media as a Conversation Medium ! Home About In the Media Enterprise 2.0 Conversations Facebook will surge ahead in India February 4, 2010.8:53

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 15, 2015

It’s in this challenging environment that communicators must build greater trust between their organizations and media, stakeholders, influencers, and communities to be effective. It’s the communicators’ responsibility to help their organization’s leadership understand the critical importance of trust today.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. They create pockets of communities where like-minded people share information and seek advice. Locations of communities online & offline. Uncover Content Ideas.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 13, 2011

Image: Jimee, Jackie, Tom & Asha via Flickr, CC 2.0. A PR firm is supposed to dispense advice and promote tactics to spread a positive message about its clients, or useful information to better the community in some way. Matt LaCasse is in the business of strategic communications.

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