Tag Archives: Online Communities

No more Facebook Fans. Now we LIKE you

2010/04/20 • Categories: Facebook • by

Yesterday Facebook began rolling out some new changes to the Facebook “Fan” pages and profiles. What seems a fairly innocent text change has created a whirl of frantic emails asking to understand this and what it means to the owners of Facebook pages. According to Facebook people tend to click “Like” almost two times more [...]

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Taking Social Media Offline

2010/03/09 • Categories: Get Started, Social Media Strategy • by

Taking your social media efforts offline is a logical next step, especially if your goal is to create community and evangelists for a club or organization. Having a party, a meet-up, workshops or meetings on a face to face basis both empowers and rewards your loyal following. Some may step forward and want to create [...]

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Are You Ready for Social Media?

2010/01/06 • Categories: Get Started, Social Media Strategy • by

Image via Wikipedia Sure, social media platforms make it easy to dive in and just start talking and that’s one of it’s biggest benefits. It’s also a potential downside. How many times have you seen somebody in over their head in a social media conversation? They get a flood of questions they aren’t ready to [...]

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Helpful Forum Tools

2009/10/28 • Categories: Forums and Community • by

Backtype If you are a regular commenter and you find new places to post through searches etc, you can find yourself in the odd place of losing track of everywhere you posted a comment. Short of bookmarking and cataloging each one Backtype keeps track of your comments on blogs and keeps a running list for [...]

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Groups: Have Fun

2009/10/25 • Categories: Forums and Community • by

The whole idea behind starting a group is to create a place where you, your peers and friends learn together and share ideas. Do take the time to enjoy the group and the people in it. You don’t have to have a blog, your own forum, a Twitter account or even a Facebook page to [...]

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Managing Groups and Forums

2009/10/23 • Categories: Forums and Community • by

Managing forums and groups on the various networks can be a lot of fun if you want to find ways to really get people talking about focused topics. Focused interest groups can be a powerful way to connect with other business people in a meaningful way. Here are  some tips for beginning community managers as [...]

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Rules of Engagement

2009/10/20 • Categories: Social Networks • by

While it’s important to build a network of social media profiles to grow your visibility, deliver your message broadly and learn from your connections, mega-networks don’t necessarily  pay off  all by themselves. But here is how a large network can really be useful. I have a couple of monster-networker friends on LinkedIn. I’ve tended to [...]

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Choosing the Right Venues

2009/10/19 • Categories: Social Networks • by

So you’ve listened carefully and discovered that the people you want to connect with are mostly on 2-3 different networks and many are on both. Now what do you do? Even if you find these deep conversations on 3, 6 or even 10 different networks, don’t engage on all of them at once. Take your [...]

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