Category: Social Media
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Community Building 101: You can’t lead without listening.
You can’t lead an online community without listening to them. The trouble is that we struggle to make time to listen – and don’t always have the best tools to help us listen smarter. Besides, we have content to produce, social posts to schedule, blogs to write, meetings to attend, campaigns to work on, and…
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Community Building 101: Focus on building friendships, not followers
I just got back from hanging out with friends and colleagues at the FinCon conference in New Orleans this past week. Aside from the informative and entertaining sessions, FinCon is an opportunity to actually shake hands, hug, and hang out with those I’ve engaged with online. FinCon is a place where you can move an…
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The Definitive Guide to Hosting a Successful Tweetchat
My favorite part of the week is when I get a chance to host and join our weekly tweetchats. Tweetchats are great because it allows you the opportunity to meet and engage with dozens and dozens of people in real-time. I’m always learning something new and meeting amazing people in these chats. In the last…
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The Art & Science of Getting Retweeted
As a community manager, I’m always studying my company’s tweets to see what content drives more engagement than others. And this can help me decide on what type of content we need to be developing more of. Researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center studied 74 million tweets through the Twitter API to discover common…
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The Art & Science of Writing Questions to Engage Your Online Community
A big part of my job as a community builder is to encourage community members to engage with each other and the brands I work with. One way that I’ve been building engagement with my communities is through live events (e.g. chats on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+). There’s nothing like live online events to build…
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How to Get More Visibility, Engagement, and Followers for Your Company on LinkedIn
Do you want to increase your company’s visibility on LinkedIn? Over the last year, I’ve been spending a lot of time on LinkedIn trying to figure out ways to grow my company’s reach, engagement and followers. I can’t share our stats or dashboards from our LinkedIn analytics – but I can share ways that I’ve…