Adam Cohen

JUNE 30, 2011

I was quickly reminded that storage technology and services company EMC has taken that approach and embarked on a journey with employees, customers and partners worldwide. To that end, the first major step in our journey was the launch of EMC|ONE – An internal community platform for our global employees. Why or why not?

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) You Don’t Have to Own A Community to Build Community. Conversation. How do you fit in with the community zeitgeist? Social etiquette. Who do you friend?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

Let’s take a look at the many hats of the internal community manager: Referee – When someone posts a link to a political article and the conversation is starts to devolve into partisan name-calling and vitriol, guess who gets to be the one to steer the conversation back toward professionalism and healthy debate?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Jay: One of the things that I see all the time, and you do as well I’m sure, now that many companies have come around to the belief that they should have a community, there isn’t a lot of community activation, or perhaps not as much as there should be. You have to make life a conversation and draw the community in.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

That said, if you are a large company, it could take you 3-4 months just to coordinate calendars to get all the right people gathered! 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. Go join that!

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 12, 2020

If you’re looking for ways to strengthen your brand and have better conversations with your customers, you need to build a brand community. Brand communities rally your most loyal customers in one place, which is a massive win for any brand. Plus, these communities are fun for your audience to chat with like-minded people.

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Jeff Esposito

JUNE 3, 2011

Every company is looking into the social game in one way shape or form nowadays. Facebook is the hotness that many are using as their community platform to build out oodles of fans (Twitter and LinkedIn are doing this to a lesser extent). Problem is that it should not even be a conversation point anymore.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone at home. For you developers, what’s preventing you from getting this involved in the communities/platforms that you’re responsible for creating?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 2, 2022

Creators thrive on audience-based platforms because their goal is to produce content that entertains, informs and persuades. Companies like Meta are taking notice. Community platforms work in the same way, putting the focus on interpersonal relationships. There are few passive observers in a community.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, if you run a small business or startup, you might hire a single social media manager to build brand awareness on a few platforms. Or, if you’re maintaining the online presence for a retail company, you might have a larger social media team focusing more on social commerce to generate more sales.

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