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Community Manager Confessions: Why I’m Terrified Of Plasma Screen TVs (Or, How High-5s Saved My Sanity)

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Gather round, boys and girls, it’s time for another installment of Community Manager Confessions. If you’re unfamiliar with this social-media-secret-spilling series, it’s because we just created it today. Before we begin, let’s take a moment to exchange a high five with one another. Yes, high fives. Remember those? You know, you put your hand up – yep,… Read More

Community Manager

The Analyst’s Guide to Teaching Data Driven Community MGMT @ #eMetrics

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Like it or not, analysts are essential participants in the advancement of any social media program. In Facebook, large amounts of actionable engagement data has been made available to page owners and it is crucial they leverage this data to advise and measure social KPIs. Guess what, analysts? with your awesome data measuring chops, it… Read More

Community Manager  /  eMetrics

Community Management Clinic! Celia Cohn Doing Outreach Right At #SMX

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Sometimes it takes a grownup, in physical life, to remind us the basics of online community management. Celia Cohn was handling Ambassador duties at the front entrance of the Westin™ Kierland Resort, the official #SMX Social Scottsdale hotel. Her job is to greet guests in the hotel lobby, guide, engage and support. She greeted me… Read More

Community Manager  /  SMX  /  Social Media

Mining Deep “Site:” Operator Search To Uncover Multilingual Social Threads

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For years, the “Site:” search operator has provided a quick method to distill mainstream SERPs (search engine result pages) down to results from a single website or class of websites. The operator works for major international search engines including Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, and others. Concatenate keywords to filter SERPs matriculated by both site and… Read More

Community Manager  /  Social Media Marketing

Orkut Dissected: Social Networking in India & Brazil

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During the summer of 2010, an interesting international client encouraged us to take a look beyond our borders and check out where Facebook was popular in other parts of the world. With Facebook’s 500 million (at the time) users easily eclipsing the total U.S. population, it was clear that the phenomenon was not limited to… Read More

Community Manager  /  Demographic Research  /  Social Media Marketing