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Welcoming New Members to your Online Community

Laurel Papworth

The early days when someone first joins are when habits, tone and value of the community culture, loyalty and stickiness are going to be set. While I think this is the best online community signup ever, there’s more that you can do to make it easy for Visitors to move to Newcomers in the social network membership cycle.

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Public Relations becomes Community Relations – Social Media

Laurel Papworth

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. As a community manager you ARE the public relations manager. How does it work?

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Monetization: Social Network Advertising

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization is becoming THE hot issue in online community chatter. The challenge is not that Facebook and other social networking sites are underpricing advertising, it’s that the context is different in online communities. In online communities, we are busy, like we are rushing from one meeting to another.

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Event: Australian Institute of Company Directors AICD social media

Laurel Papworth

Speakers: Laurel Papworth, Online Community Strategist, World Communities. By the way, my article in the AICD magazine. Technorati Tags: aicd , Australia , australian institute of company directors , conference , laurel papworth , social media. Ross Monaghan, Lecturer, Deakin University. Speaker TBC. Related posts.

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity SMM

. • Stephanie Gaspary – Director, Social Strategy and Creative Services, CareerBuilder.com. • Niall Cook – Worldwide Director of Marketing Technology at Hill & Knowlton. • Yianni Garcia – Digital Marketing & Community Manager, The McGraw-Hill Companies. Honigman – Social Media Manager at Sears Holdings Corporation.

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cybersoc.com: 3 types of blog: closed, conduit and participant in the conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

online community. Renjith on Cybersociology Magazine - relaunch? Your final community category is quite interesting, but one I unfortunately haven not seen much in practice (yet). Robin was also previously an Executive Producer at Granada (ITV) and Communities Evangelist at Talkcast (mobile). technorati.

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Australia: Industry Head, Social Media

Laurel Papworth

Marketing Magazine name Industry Head of Social Media for Australia. Kate Kendall ( @KateKendall ) from Marketing Magazine approached me a little while ago to write a piece on the “state of the social media industry&#. Venessa Paech, Community manager, Lonely Planet @venessapaech. What is an Industry? with a Head?