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Community platforms do not equal community

SocialFish

At one point in the presentation, we talked about the fact that while building a private event community site can be one tactic in your social media arsenal, this by itself does not community make. And you need to help them overcome the hurdles that you are setting just by creating this site.

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

In 2019 we saw several social platforms grow and continue to mature – from industry giants like Facebook and Instagram to emerging platform TikTok and more niche sites like Pinterest. This trend toward growth and diversity means that no one social platform or channel can be ignored.

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How To Use Customer Insight To Power Your Business

The Realtime Report

Research is conducted using community platforms or on a one-to-one basis. Using analytic tools to monitor how customers interact with your site can deliver insight into how they respond to messaging and calls to action around the products and services promoted on-site. Monitor Website Activity.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Don’t forget early social sites like Yahoogroups and Craigslist. Turn your blog into a mobile blog site with Mofuse. Learn what other free tools might work for community building, like MyBlogLog. Then, mash it against competitors’ sites.

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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

Create Community Next you need to consider having a “controlled” community environment in your world. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site. A place that you can offer your customers/audience a place to communicate in addition to external channels.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of March 2011

SocialFish

bitly’s Got a Brand New Mobile Site! 8 Signs You Have Outgrown Your Online Community Platform (Socious Member Engagement Blog). The secrets to getting a high “RCCF:” (TweetSmarter). 10 Applications For Your Facebook Event Page (Event Manager Blog). New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels (Gmail Blog). Bitly Blog). Datalicious.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Social Network Platforms 1. Ning – Ning has certainly established itself as the leader in custom, web based, out of the box social network sites. If you ever wanted to create an exclusive area of your site for paid members, you have that option. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.