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Inside A Social Media Command Center

by · September 26, 2011

Last month I paid a visit to Dreamforce, the user conference for Salesforce.com, in San Francisco. As you may know, Salesforce.com recently acquired Radian6, one of the leading social media monitoring platforms. This was the first time the Salesforce.com and Radian6 team was together at Dreamforce and they put on quite a show.

Because many of the sessions at Dreamforce were focused on social media and social business (here’s an audio recording my talk on the ROI of Social Media), the Radian6 team was not only the star of the exhibition show floor, but cranked up the community team to listen, amplify and triage mentions of both brands, as well as others Dreamforce had purchased over the year, and show off it’s ability to be responsive and nimble despite a high volume of conversations on and off line.

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What Mixx.com’s Sale Can Teach Us About Community

by · February 14, 2011

Mixx.com has been acquired by UberMedia. The new Mixx.com launches sometime this month according to the Mixx blog. Apparently, the social news voting element of the site will be retired.

On the surface, this appears to be a nice endgame for Chris McGill who created Mixx in response to the soap opera-like community vs. site politics that Digg.com experience in the 2007-2008 timeframe. Grow up, do something well, build an audience and get acquired. But if you look a little closer, what happens with Mixx and its niche, but vibrant social news community, might just teach us a thing or two about how communities work and that they often have lives of their own.

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Community Managers: Whose Best Interests Do You Serve?

by · October 26, 2010

The “Wild West” of social media is upon us. Brands are staking their ground in the proverbial gold rush – it’s an all out land grab. From small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, there are new industry positions being created left and right to quantify specific disciplines. (Typically, these job titles usually end with the word “strategist.”)

In this digital age where the public/private line is intertwined and customers are so connected, brands are feeling the pressure to add a community manager position to navigate them through this tumultuous time. (A byproduct of the “everyone else is doing it” syndrome.)

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Is Social Media a Requirement for Community Managers?

by · October 13, 2010

I recently jumped in on a Twitter discussion between a few folks who were at odds about defining social media’s role in building and managing communities. Some felt that requiring social media as part of the job description for community managers was not right and might lead those interested in the role to overlook other skills important for the job. Others stated that they could not think of one community management role that could not benefit from the use of social media therefore it was a must have skill for those in the position. I tend to lean more towards the latter opinion. I posted a few messages from the Twitter exchange below.

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Will Your Company Introduce Your Baristas?

by · July 26, 2010

In the past two weeks, I’ve been asked a version of the same question about four times. The questions came from decision-makers at three companies/brands and one advertising agency. The question was generally this one:

Why on Earth would we allow our employees to openly represent us online?

Yes, all you social media purists out there, there are still non-Kool-aid drinkers amongst us. In fact, 90 percent of the world is still old school about marketing and communications. Keep on Kumbaya-ing with your “l love your blog” crowd. The rest of us will do the hard work.

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ReadWriteWeb’s Guide To Online Community Management A Must Have For Businesses

by · May 14, 2009

Jason Falls

Jason Falls

ReadWriteWeb published its first premium product today in the form of a combination white paper/E-book and subject aggregation site. Their “Guide To Online Community Management” went on sale this morning. If you are a business or a brand engaged or planning to engage in social media, you should go buy this report right now. (The 70+ page PDF is a mere $299 – a steal for the amount of information contained therein.) The online compliment to the report is a dynamic newsroom aggregation site for everything community management and is can be had with a username and password provided when you purchase the report.

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Patrick O’Keefe Offers Community Management Expertise On SME-TV

by · October 2, 2008

With companies and brands clamoring around the buzzword of “community” recently, it only makes sense they would be looking for experienced advice on building and managing them. While I would certainly welcome all comers, there are a good number of community experts out there. One is Patrick O’Keefe of the iFroggy Network, who has been managing online communities since 2000. I caught up with O’Keefe for an episode of SME TV at Blog World & New Media Expo recently, where we both served on a panel together.

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So You Want To Run An Online Forum?

by · April 18, 2008

It’s a fair point to say the online tool most responsible for the advent of social media is the forum or message board. Descendants of early bulletin board systems and USENET groups, the forum introduced the concepts of conversation and community to the Internet. As technology blossomed and more sophisticated methods of communications usurped forums as the primary place people played online, the forum seemed to take a back seat.

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How Much Microblogging Is Too Much?

by · February 13, 2008

My periodic Utterz on the way to work produced a question on Tuesday that I thought would make for good discussion here. I recorded my thoughts and the question in a Seesmic post Tuesday evening.

If you don’t have time to watch the video, I am essentially wondering how much microblogging is too much for you. Do you use Twitter? Do you use Jaiku? How about Utterz? Seesmic is a video version of microblogging. Are you there?

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