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Facebook Adds New Video Tools to Foster Community Engagement
Social Media Today
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Facebook's adding some new video tools to help boost engagement and build community around video content
Social Media Management Tools Compared
Ignite Social Media
MARCH 16, 2017
One last question before you do: will you post and monitor your comments natively, or will you use a social media management tool? We certainly recommend using a social media management tool for many brands, but not necessarily the same one for every brand.
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7 best Facebook analytics tools
Unmetric
JUNE 18, 2019
By allies, I mean these really cool analytics tools that will help you understand your Facebook performance and get real-time metrics to help you reach your target audience. Read on to discover what these tools have to offer to help you get better on Facebook.
Using Livestreaming to Grow Your Brand, Community, & Influence
Waxing UnLyrical
APRIL 18, 2019
Over the past two years, I have significantly grown my online community through the power of livestreaming and video content. In this article, I will share three specific ways that livestreaming has helped me grow my community. How is your video content serving your community?
Cool Social Tools: Small World Labs Community
SocialFish
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
This series of posts is for software and app and tech vendors who have useful tools they’d like you to know about. ———— Cool Social Tools: Small World Labs Community. What Is an Online Community? Enterprise-Level Community Platform.
The 32 Best Twitter Marketing Tools
Webbiquity SMM
JANUARY 24, 2017
Here are nearly three dozen tools that can help grow your following, increase engagement, monitor brand and keyword mentions, benchmark competitors, research accounts, analyze sentiment, schedule tweets, and more. This is my favorite tool for building our audience on Twitter.”
The 21 Best Content Curation Tools
Webbiquity SMM
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
The 20+ tools showcased here enable you to automatically find, source, search, store, organize, annotate, and/or share content from a wide range of publishers and social sources. Sample review: “One of the most important tools in a marketer’s tool belt is knowledge.
[Cool Social Tools] Hot Online Community Platforms for 2015
SocialFish
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
And associations need to do if it they’re shopping around for an online community platform. It was our pleasure to team up with SocialFish for the 2014 Online Community Software Selection Guide — there were more than 3,000 downloads! Due diligence. It’s a real thing.
[Cool Social Tools] Hot Online Community Platforms for 2015
SocialFish
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Guest post by Teri Carden and Ben Martin of Online Community Results. And associations need to do if it they’re shopping around for an online community platform. HigherLogic : This online community vendor is the market-share leader in the association and nonprofit space.
22 Expert Guides and Reviews of 200+ Social Media Tools
Webbiquity SMM
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
No one has time to put every one of those tools through its paces. In the posts highlighted below, 20 (or so) social media marketing pros review more than 200 tools, ranging from popular, widely used tools like Buffer, Hootsuite and Feedly to intriguing but lesser-known apps.
BigMarker.com: Social Network for Communities
Mindjumpers
APRIL 2, 2012
BigMarker.com is a social network for communities. By offering unlimited web conferencing and key project management tools, it hopes to empower communities to make a difference. A BigMarker.com Community equips anyone with the tools they need to make a difference.
The 29 Best Social Media Monitoring Tools
Webbiquity SMM
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Standard web analytics tools provide only a very narrow view of social media activity: clicks through to your brand website. The analytics tools built into social networks provide a bit more detail, though only within their own platforms. These tools can help you find out.
Tool Tuesday: Twitter curation tools
Akamai Marketing
AUGUST 29, 2011
Generally speaking though, they lend themselves to community building and time saving features. Unlike a Twitter stream, these curation tools offer a way to collect a lot of information in a single place. Storify is another Twitter curation tool and a story-teller’s dream.
4 Community Management Hacks for Instagram
Likeable
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Anyone familiar with the role of a community manager knows that your day can go from calm to busy in a blink of an eye. The four Instagram updates below not only help streamline a community manager’s day but can also help build a better relationship between your brand and your followers.
25 Free Digital Marketing Tools for Nonprofits
Waxing UnLyrical
APRIL 19, 2018
This list is of free digital marketing tools for non-profits is a great place to start. Solutions: These tools will help you easily connect, plan and organize team members and supporters anywhere. Solutions: Free tools to the rescue. Community Building and Social Media Hacks.
The Characteristics of A Community Manager
Mindjumpers
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
Every week, we blog about how to optimize your brand’s social media presence, which tools to use and what the newest updates on the major social networks mean to your brand’s way of engaging with your target group. The Community Managers (CM). The corner stones of community management.
Community Management Fundamentals
SocialFish
MARCH 12, 2014
…from the always awesome Community Roundtable. Do you have advanced community management tips to share? Community Management Fundamentals from The Community Roundtable. Featured Implementation Open Community And by the way, this deck is three years old.
5 Easy Tools for Social Selling Success
Webbiquity SMM
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
A big reason for this is a lack of organizational tools. And then, one day, a host of tools were released that made it SO MUCH EASIER. 5 Easy Tools for Social Selling Success. With these five tools in place, you’ll have all your bases covered. Guest post by Austin Duck.
Tips on Measuring Community [April #measurePR Recap]
Waxing UnLyrical
APRIL 24, 2015
At the heart of social PR lies community. So that’s what we focused on for the April #measurePR Twitter chat; how to measure community, how to tell when community-building initiatives are working (and when they’re not), and how community-focused metrics might change over time. Experts in measuring community. A1: Building a community around a product or service is just part of our jobs in #PR today (which is great, because it’s fun!).
The 11 Best Social Media Campaign Builders and Ad Monitoring Tools
Webbiquity SMM
MARCH 7, 2017
While social media marketing is optimized through the use of social media monitoring and management tools, social campaigns are most effectively built and managed through the types of tools in this post. Optimizely is a neat tool for this.” — RazorSocial. Ad Monitoring Tools.
What do you think about your community platform?
SocialFish
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
But where do community managers go when they’re getting ready to spend $10,000 or more per year for on-domain community software? Why isn’t there a Yelp specifically for community software? Let’s flex our community manager muscles to solve this problem.
“Community Manager” Confusion
Waxing UnLyrical
JUNE 3, 2011
about what the difference is between “community manager&# and “social media manager?&# I know I am – and I am both a community manager and a social media manager! My title is “online community & social media manager.&# Guest post by Maggie McGary.
Building a New Kind of Cruise Community
Waxing UnLyrical
APRIL 15, 2015
Regular WUL readers know that Shonali (a friend and former colleague at Socialmedia.biz ) showcases guest posts about how to build, engage and sustain an online community, among other things. so that others might gain insights for their own community efforts. We wanted to give cruisers the tools to tell their own stories and share their experiences through text and media. Assumption 3: Give people the right decision tools. What tools are we missing?
4 Real-Time Monitoring Tools that Save Your Brand Time
Ignite Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2016
How does one brand monitor and listen to the thousands, if not millions of members in its community? Many people have dedicated their lives to developing tools to help brands monitor and listen to their communities in real-time.
Snap Launches 'Lens Explorer' to Showcase Community Created AR Tools
Social Media Today
JULY 11, 2018
Snapchat's looking to showcase its user-created Lens tools as part of a new effort to maximize usage of its tools
#measurePR Recap (Feb 2016): Measuring Community
Waxing UnLyrical
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Seeing as how February, as a month, is all about love, I wanted to focus this month’s #measurePR chat on the folks who give us the most love in our businesses: our community. A2: I think they are one metric and tool, but not the only one you should look at.
Content Marketing: Without Community, It’s Only Half the Equation
Waxing UnLyrical
APRIL 17, 2015
You may have created great content, and you may have a good distribution plan, but shares and engagement are unlikely to come unless you have also focused on community building. Automation and tools. Content Marketing Public Relations automation community building content marketing
Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.
Jason Yormark
JULY 22, 2009
jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Community / Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community On A Budget | Subcribe via RSS Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community On A Budget July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Community Tweet Share Having a thriving community where your users or customers frequently visit, interact, provide feedback and evangelize your products/services is an extremely valuable scenario.
Cool Social Tools: PwrdBy
SocialFish
JUNE 5, 2014
This series of posts is for software and app and tech vendors who have new tools they’d like you to know about. PwrdBy has developed a mobile application platform built specifically for the nonprofit community. Cool Social Tools Mobile Nimble Nonprofit
The Six Best Google+ Marketing Tools
Webbiquity SMM
JUNE 21, 2016
As with Facebook , Twitter, and other popular networks, Google+ has also inspired its own ecosystem of tools. Sample review: The Google+ tool “I find really useful is CircleCount. This was the seventh post in the Best Online Business Tools series. #1:
How Purpose Will Power Future Online Communities
SocialFish
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
What if there was a way to create sustained engagement in communities and collaborative experiences that harnessed genuine motivation and strove for positive outcomes for participants? Purpose-Driven Communities. Tactical goals in the context of a community experience, yes.
Social media manager vs. community manager: What’s the difference?
Sprout Social
JUNE 18, 2019
Does the person who post as your brand on Facebook also work to develop the community that the company is part of? Typically, most companies find they need at least a social media manager and a community manager. The Sims has both social media managers and community managers.
STUDY: The Business Impact of Online Communities
SocialFish
MARCH 6, 2017
How do organizations track the impact of their online communities? How do they link the community to competitive advantage? Communities are organizational orchestras, and marketing is the conductor. Invest more in analytical tools.
How Socially Responsible Communications Maintain Your Community Cool
Waxing UnLyrical
MARCH 19, 2013
I recently received a notification from another influencer marketing tool seeking to engage me by flattering my ego, which will inevitably re-stir the frenzy of excited tweets, criticism , and everything in between.
Community platforms do not equal community
SocialFish
DECEMBER 13, 2010
conference in New Orleans about “Building Your Tradeshow Community Online&#. The presentation applies to any event community. We talked about the ecosystem – what your open community online actually looks like. Building Your Tradeshow Community Online.
Can Communities Serve As Perfect Add-On For Your Blog?
Mindjumpers
APRIL 12, 2011
Tweet Written by Nabanita Roy , who is a web enthusiast and blogger currently working as a Community Development Executive at forums.com. There are several community building tools for blog promotion. You can add a forum area to your blog community to know your readers mind.
Facebook Launching Community Actions Feature To News Feed
Socialmedia.biz
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Facebook is all set to launch Community Actions, an interactive News Feed petition feature, that will allow users to support political and social causes that matter to them. Through these and other tools, we have seen people marshal support for and get results on issues that matter to them.
Using Online Community to Increase Member Retention
SocialFish
MARCH 24, 2014
And of course I was excited to get a chance to talk about my favorite subject, online community, with my friend Josh Paul , in the session we presented yesterday, Using Online Community to Increase Member Retention. Two of these three can be addressed/alleviated with online community.
The Five Best Pinterest and Instagram Marketing Tools
Webbiquity SMM
AUGUST 23, 2016
As with other social networks, the right tools can help marketers use these platforms more effectively. Here are a handful of the best tools for growing your brand’s following and monitoring your results on Instagram and Pinterest. This is the tool for you!”
Monitor Your Brand’s Instagram Activity with New Reporting Tool
Mindjumpers
AUGUST 27, 2012
Simply Measured just made that task easier with the launch of a new Instagram reporting tool.
Cool Social Tools: BigMarker
SocialFish
JUNE 24, 2014
This series of posts is for software and app and tech vendors who have new tools they’d like you to know about. BigMarker gives you all the tools to plan, conduct, record, store, and share your community’s web conferences. Engage everyone in the community for feedback.
4 Emerging Social Media Communities
Ignite Social Media
AUGUST 2, 2016
Today, let’s examine four recently emerging social media communities. Instagram has long been known as a channel for the inner photographer in all of us, with filters and tools to make even the most mundane of subjects a work of art.
Monday Roundup: The Right Business Tools
Waxing UnLyrical
MAY 20, 2013
On to this week’s roundup; and this week, we’re focusing on business tools. As we all know, the right business tools can save us time, money, and increase efficiency. So below are five posts that include helpful tools from around the web. Happy Monday!
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