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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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali On Lists, Their Importance, And How To Get On One February 8th, 2011 Tweet This post has been about a year and a half in the writing. Lists are as important as you think they are. Yes, really!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 28, 2014

Blogging is a great way to start conversations, share ideas, and build your online community. Image: Mike Licht via Flickr, CC 2.0. How has blogging helped build your brand’s online community… or has it, in fact, not made a difference? Blogging for Profit? 5 Sure-Fire Ways Tools Will Help.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 8, 2010

While I trawled manually through around 10,000 Facebook fanpages to finish off the list (still not finished) of Australia’s Top Facebook Pages , I kept coming across this sort of complaint – “I’m trying to get a message to you guys – they’ve shut us down!&# Fanpage vs community vs brand vs groups.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Image: DVIDSHUB via Flickr, CC 2.0. In this classic post, Jay Baer gets us started with a list of the things he is most grateful for. Thank you for being part of the WUL community, and a blessed Thanksgiving to our U.S. community from me and mine. Are We Seeing the Slow Death of Thanksgiving?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2013

Image: TheNextWeb via Flickr, CC 2.0. Using Twitter lists smartly. You can make these lists public or private, but depending on the nature of your work, set up any number of lists to track what specific people/companies are saying. How To Public Relations Resources Shonali Burke Twitter twitter for PR twitter lists'

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 4, 2014

Image: Trey Ratcliff via Flickr, CC 2.0. Ian Cleary takes a look at why automation can help keep your communication channels open while you identify real prospects. 6 Simple Tips to Grow a Large Email List. Why: Nothing is as potent as a large, targeted, responsive email list of engaged followers.

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Dave Fleet

JULY 26, 2010

Online Communications Policy. Community Guidelines. Blogging Policies List. Shift Communications. Online Social Media Principles. Daimler AG. Social Media Guidelines. Blog Policy. Corporate Blogging Policy. Fellowship Church. Blogging Policy. General Motors. Blogger Policy. Georgia Tech. Guidelines for Student Blogging.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 20, 2014

Image: ryan_rancatore via Flickr, CC 2.0. In this guest post for The Cogent Coach, Ted Rubin lists 12 ways to give your brand’s online interactions a human touch. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. Good morning!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. Like this: Image: Nisa yeh via Flickr, CC 2.0. There is nothing in that list that makes me think, “Oh, this person would be PERFECT for that project I’m working on!”. Imagine you’re at a party. And imagine you’re a people person (if you aren’t already).

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Be succinct, use photos, on and on down the list of cliched suggestions that have peppered many a blog post. Image: Joseph Swan via Flickr, CC 2.0. Two social accounts cross in the night , and a re-tweet or Like is born – why is that? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. It’s complicated.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

If your organization is considering getting active in social or if you’re analyzing your current efforts, take a look at the following list and make sure you’re not undermining the success of your activities. If you have content that is valuable to your community , great, Post it up! Want to fail at social media?

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Google Buzz nearby mobile feature serves up a list about places, and users can read Buzz info about those places from others who are both in and outside their networks. Flickr and Panoramio geotag and display these images in a mapping context. Foursquare allows for check-ins. Google has added geotagging to Blogger. Your turn to act.

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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

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. Soucie lists as why she wanted to start her own company are frequent vacations, naps, and sleeping in. The first is a response to Yahoo!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 12, 2015

Image: Memphis CVB on Flickr via Flickr, CC 2.0. What would you add to this list? area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. Thank you to them. And you ; you should get to know them. ” ~ John Friedman. “The sky’s the limit!

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Here’s a list of 50 ideas (in no particular order) to help move the conversation along. . 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).

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

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. Curated lists were used a lot in 2012 and will be leveraged much more frequently to categorize people and observe trends. Twitter in 2013.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 28, 2011

The list could go on. Which is the collective voice of my community, not just one or two people. An active community is a powerful thing. Community conversations led to one of my favorite posts yet (and, I think, yours) on social media barfshiners. Image: DanJackson_UK via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2015

Image: Jamie McCaffrey via Flickr, CC 2.0. ” 2. Why: “Your professional online network and connections requires ongoing tuning and that includes occasionally clearing out some of your connection clutter,” says Beth Kanter as she explores the right way to de-clutter your connection list. Try A New Way!”.

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Social Media Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2010

There are a number of great resources that are either low-cost or free: Flickr The grand-daddy of all image sites. Flickr is a very powerful community with millions of photos at your disposal. A note about using Flickr photos: if you plan to embed a Flickr photo in your site, there are guidelines that you need to follow.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 15, 2011

The study was listed as one of the bullet points in Academica’s Top Ten , a daily scan of the news stories in Canadian Higher Education. Image: Abdulmajeed Al.mutawee via Flickr, CC 2.0. Its goals are entrenched in reputation and community-building. I manage a blog for a mid-sized Canadian University.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2015

Why: “Employees want to know what their colleagues know and they also want proof to substantiate the skills and expertise listed,” explains Andy Jankowski as he shares some uber sexy data points on what to provide employees with to “make them happiest with your intranet.” Image: Jeff Gunn via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

There is no shortage of lists of social media monitoring tools, but check out this list from my friend Ian Cleary on his Razor Social site. Image: Willrad von Doomenstein via Flickr, CC 4.0. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kindest regards, <REDACTED> To which I replied: <REDACTED>, Since I have not opted into any communications from you, I shouldn’t have to “unsubscribe.” ” You do not have my permission to put me on any mailing lists. Focus on building community. Image: clasesdeperiodismo via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2012

For both strategic and benchmarking purposes, create a spreadsheet listing your top competitors and, for each, showing: • Social features on their website (e.g. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). . Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

Image: tamra hays via Flickr, CC 2.0 A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. Much cleaner than a huge unwieldy list. Good list though.thanks for introducing me to some new ideas.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The license allows a very broad range of uses, though it does list several restricted use cases (which are quite common for most free images sites). Life of Pix lists free high-resolution photographs and partners with Adobe Stock for more (paid) stock photographs. I’d love to keep the list growing in the comments!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Image: jim crossley via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: BES Photos via Flickr, CC 2.0 Leaders cultivate intelligent and competent group members by communicating why certain methods work and should be replicated, and what about certain ideas are important. Steve Crescenzo observes this problem in corporate communications.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 12, 2011

And, now, even good ol’ Facebook has added Questions to its list of features in order to help us get feedback from our network of friends. Image: PNNL – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via Flickr, CC 2.0. The idea of polling and surveying is catching on (again).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 14, 2011

Image: terren in Virginia via Flickr, CC 2.0 and also, once you install it, Apture will insert “pop-up&# references on embedded links, if they’re to easily accessible pages such as Wikipedia, Flickr, etc. (It It just did it on the Flickr link above.) Im so glad you picked it for your list.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Image: Auntie P via Flickr, CC 2.0. ” In this classic post, Richard Bagnall shares a list of reasons to “ignore this spurious and meaningless metric.” area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™. 12-1 pm ET, deets here. Here’s why.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

(Wait for it…) Relax, I’m not going to re-list what’s already been written all over the Interwebz about affordable technology available to non-profits. Image: Brad Stabler via Flickr, CC 2.0 Examples of sites using Mobify include Boing Boing and A List Apart. I think #amplify could be added to the list.

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Laurel Papworth

JUNE 14, 2011

The main online community Facebook – and other social networks such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Livestreaming – have been appropriated for the Icelandic Government’s communications channels to it’s own people. Flickr Photos are deadly dull to me. Iceland would be on my bucket list if I had one.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 22, 2011

While I love blogging, the blog community, social media, etc., A few weeks ago, I got an email from one of my readers asking me to take her unsubscribe her from the email subscription list. Image: cosmocatalano via Flickr, CC 2.0. The three main reasons for this are: 1. Quality and consistency. Did you learn something new?

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Myrland Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2013

Pro bono and other community activity. This isn’t an exhaustive list. Photos bring words to life by evoking thoughts, emotion or relativity. Photos help some find words to say when conversation doesn’t come easy. 10 WAYS YOU CAN BEGIN SHARING PHOTOS. Conferences your partners and administrators attend. Your new associates.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JULY 6, 2010

Let’s short list 11 high level social media solutions and tools right now. A Ning Like community or Forum solution. What is going to give them the biggest return, the biggest impact? You can only choose one. Social Bookmarking. Podcasting. Social Monitoring.

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