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Is Your Bartender the Perfect Community Manager?
What is the Perfect Online Community? Is there such a thing as the perfect community? What would be the definition of a perfect community? Does the perfect community have exist? Does the perfect...
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How Many Missed Viral Moments?
Yesterday as I was walking to the subway, I saw a woman walking her cat on a leash and I thought “this is just TOO fascinating”, so I spoke to her for a minutes about her cat and how she did not...
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Don’t Connect The Dots, Weave Your Web
Photo credit: Pandiyan http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandiyan/ Can you remember who got you started on your career path? It’s probably not as clear as you think. Was it your teacher, boss, friend,...
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Making Community Fun and Eventful
I love community. I also love fun. How amazing is it that the two work so awesome hand in hand? My favorite way to make community fun? Events. I’m fairly certain I actually live for conferences and...
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Twitter Chats Are Part of You and Your Community
Great recipe!! So, my partner, Tim threw down a gauntlet tonite…. me being me, I happily accepted!! Tim, wrote this Twitter Chats Are A Waste of Time, go on, go read it, it’s good and read the...
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Where Do You Draw The Line On Self Promotion
Would someone please explain what self promotion is? We all know the people who do it, right? They are why we think LinkedIn groups are useless. They are the people who you thought you wanted to be...
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Review: Fierce Loyalty by Sarah Robinson
“Make a decision. Every day, decide that a fiercely local community is your goal, no matter what.” —Sarah Robinson, Fierce Loyalty Let me be fully transparent, right away. I was on the Street Team to...
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Influencing the Community Mind with NeuroScience
We humans like to herd up. From the times of cavemen and their clans, to the tribes of native America to the teams and communities of the modern world, we like to group together. Our modern herds are...
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Vest And Elevate
Remember the feeling of reaching the apple levels on Pac Man? It not only meant you had played for a while with one quarter, but it also meant you had gone through 9 levels to get there. Each level...
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Painless Prospecting
How would you like more prospects without having to do any cold-calling or without having to pay for advertising? Too good to be true? Maybe, but it is possible AND it can be painless! Tom Martin’s...
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Community Evolution Manifestos
Last Friday, Dec. 6, Tim McDonald announced that after two and a half amazing years, he was officially handing over the reins of management for My Community Manager to Jonathan “Brew” Brewer and...
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Fostering Individual Social Media Relationships
In Friday’s #MYCMGR Hangout with Merlin U. Ward, author of You Get What You Give: Social Media Principles and Strategies for Branding, Customer Service, Community, Innovation and Sales, we discussed...
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Using Reviews to Build Community and Improve Your Brand
The role of a community manager isn’t all about tweeting and sitting on Facebook, like much of the world believes. When you’re a community manager, your job never stops. You need your ear to the ground...
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Long-term Relationships with Guest Bloggers
On last Friday’s My Community Manager #CMGRHangout, we talked about hiring guest bloggers. People always want to know how to do it best, and recruit the best people to write for their brand, but where...
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And the Award for the Best Community Manager Goes to … your Parents?
Have you ever tried to explain your job as a community manager to your parents and thought “ugh, this is hopeless! I do more than just Facebook. You’ll never understand!” Turns out, parents understand...
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Want Community Advocates? Make Real Connections.
Your community is growing, and you’re finding it more and more difficult to have those intimate, one-on-one connections with members of your community. Success is a great thing, but you miss the way it...
View Article#CMGRHangout presents: Gen C and the Community Manager (Storify)
Generation C thrives on Connection, Community, Creation and Curation. The emergence of Gen C as an age neutral group has impacted the way we manage communities, as well as how the typical community...
View Article#CMGRHangout presents: So you want to grow a community? (Storify)
Community growth is not a passive activity but a proactive one. We all know it can be quite the challenge at times, but check out the discussion below to hear from our panelists what’s worked best!...
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Connecting with Gen C (What Does That Mean?!)
On last Friday’s #CMGRHangout, we had some pretty awesome Gen-C-ers hanging out with us. But as we discovered, that can be anyone at any age! Brew put it best: Generation C is really anyone that...
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Cost of Learning vs. Cost of Hiring in Community Management
How do you know when it’s time to add to your team? How do you know if it should be volunteers or employees? As #CMGRHangout guest Blaise Grimes-Viort described it on last Friday’s hangout, it all...
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