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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

If there’s one thing we’ve learned being the original social media marketing agency, it’s that nothing in our world stays the same for long. So, when I was asked to share what the future of community management would be like, at first it felt like an impossible task. Let’s Get Grounded: What’s Community Management, Really?

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late… posted in Uncategorized |. The answer is NOT always social media/community - that would be another warning sign if it was. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. Lots of diverse versions of this.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

However, over the last few years, a new Community Manager role has emerged – the internal Community Manager, responsible for increasing and maintaining user adoption for social media tools behind the organizational firewall. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Three of the most used platforms these days are vBulletin , phpBB and Simple Forums. phpBB and Simple Forums are free, but heavily used with lots of support options. Create Community Next you need to consider having a “controlled” community environment in your world.

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What is a brand community and how to build a successful one

Sprout Social

Just because someone knows about or has purchased from your brand doesn’t mean they’re part of an engaged or even an engageable brand community. Instead, your brand community is people who follow all of your content on social media, who share your products/services and content with others, and who enjoy seeing everything your brand does.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0

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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

Jay: I like that quote, “You can’t schedule community.” So many times now, it seems that Facebook in particular has become the de facto community platform. Deb: But somebody has to get the party started, and that’s where the community manager or moderator comes in. ” That’s good.