Virtual Community

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• What’s the biggest mistake a community manager can make?

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  image coutesy of shutterstock We’ve put the question to leading community managers across the world, and they have outlined the classic community clangers that we should all avoid. Lack of engagement Toby Metcalfe, Community Manager and Social Networker, is straight to the point on this: “The big mistake ...
  2 days ago

• Why every online community needs a suicide policy

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  by net_efekt My husband ’s been reading John T Cacioppo’s Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection and as usual when he’s enthralled by something, I’ve heard about it at great length. While I have yet to read it (I’m too cheap to buy a second copy instead of waiting for his) it has ...
  3 days ago

• The unnatural lingo of the online world

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Image via Wikipedia As online professionals, like any profession, we have a set of words and terms relating to our job. We talk about moderation and trolls and forums. We talk about features and modules and fields. But unlike many other professions, we also expect the lay people using all those things to ...
  3 days ago

• Social media as a crisis management tool

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Image by ajburgess via Flickr I have a client who once said to me: “We want to use social media to attract more complaints” . This may seem an odd thing to say, all to often attracting complaints is a reason people cite for being anxious about using social media . But this client knew that one part of ...
  5 days ago

• Virtual Community IS Community – RIP @gideony

  
  Pomomusings — Authority: 115
  As I finished lunch this past Wednesday, I was checking tweets and saw the above tweet from Bruce Reyes-Chow. Then I started doing some searching through hashtags and people’s tweets, and realized that the news was in fact true: fellow emergent church blogger Gideon Addington had taken his own life. I didn’t ...
  1 week ago

• How effective are blogs in creating a community?

  
  Marketing Conversation — Authority: 128
  Q: How effective are blogs in creating a community? My A: Blogs are a platform.  Blogs are completely ineffective at creating a community.  There are 99 terrible ghost town blogs for every one rocking blog.  There are 999 ghost town Twitter profiles for every one good, engaging, account.  The community is ...
  2 weeks ago

• What does a community manager do?

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Sounds like a stupid question, no? But actually it’s a valid one, especially in this time of flux. If you ask some people what an online community manager does, they’ll describe a moderator. If you ask others, they’ll detail a curator. Others liken it to being a gardener, keeping the weeds at bay and ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2010: Community Management predictions

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Image by mira d’oubliette via Flickr As is traditional at this time of year, we’ve been looking back over 2009 and all the enormous leaps of innovation and learning that have happened in the social media space. For some of us old, creaking community managers that have been around longer than broadband, ...
  2 weeks ago

• From business requirements to social media solutions

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Image by Esther_G via Flickr Tim continues his series on Selling Social Media . You have spent time building an understanding of the business requirements . You have built a short list of prioritised needs; these could be, for example, to grow online revenue, cut support costs, enhance innovation, build ...
  2 weeks ago

• Five questions to ask a social media agency before you work with them

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Image by Dom Dada via Flickr There are a lot of social media agencies out there (we at FreshNetworks being one of them!). Many doing different things and having different approaches. When a brand is getting started in social media , launching a particular campaign or engagement programme, or just looking for ...
  3 weeks ago

• McDonald’s serves up social media

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 511
  Image by thomas.merton via Flickr McDonald’s is the world’s largest and fastest growing food service organisation. It is also a brand that attracts a lot of discussion and debate online. Not all of it positive. This presentation from Heather Oldani , their Director of PR, is a great overview of how ...
  4 weeks ago

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