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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

According to data from Pew Research , messaging apps dominated social networks in 2019. The top messaging apps now boast nearly 5 billion monthly active users combined (compared to the combined social networks which top out around 3 billion ). 3 Social commerce will come into maturity. Source: Pinterest.

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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

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. Social etiquette. How do you fit in with the community zeitgeist? Who do you friend?

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. I think the same is true for the bevy of social tools. Social networking has hit a tipping point, but the channels will continue to ebb and flow.