I haven’t paid this blog much attention over the last six weeks. First it was a two week trip to Japan that was so amazing I just let the experience wash over me. I’m slowly recounting the experience on my personal blog and editing/uploading photos to Flickr.
The other reason I’ve been slacking is a new [...]
Posts Tagged ‘engagement’
On Social Media and Goodwill
Posted in Social Media Strategy, tagged blogging, conversations, engagement, goodwill, microblogging, social media, twitter on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Five Questions to Ask a Social Media Expert
Posted in Social Media Strategy, tagged blogging, engagement, evangelists, social media on February 5, 2009 | 17 Comments »
The term “expert” or “guru” is generating a lot of discussion in social media circles of late. The general consensus is “actions speak louder than words” and while you may actually be an expert, you probably don’t want to call yourself one.
I came across this post from Peter Bregman on his Harvard Business Publishing blog [...]
Fostering Member Engagement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged engagement, moderation, newsletter, programming, welcome interview on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How do I keep my members interested, active and engaged?”
I hear this question all the time… whether it’s an existing client or someone thinking about getting started with community and/or social media. And with most questions like this, there are a lot of answers, but there’s one overriding truth.
Make sure you’re clear about what’s in [...]
20 Tips for Your Community Newsletter
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, engagement, newsletter, programming, social media on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Communicating with your community members can take many forms… a welcome interview, webinar roundtable, alerts and newsletters (just to name a few). I’m going to take this post to dig deep into that last one… the newsletter. It’s easy to pattern it after a familiar email blast template, but you’re missing out on some key [...]
C20 Conversations with Mzinga – eBay & Yahoo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged engagement, moderation, podcast, social graph on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Both Rachel Makool (eBay) and Matt Warburton (Yahoo) have extensive experience in building/managing community and it shows in this hallway conversation. They confirm how important it is the connect with other community managers to benchmark your efforts and learn from their mistakes. Rachel also suggests how important it is to understand the precedents you set [...]
C20 Conversations – Dawn Lacallade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, engagement, ideas, podcast, social media on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were fortunate to meet and have a conversation with Dell’s lead blogger Lionel Manchaca at SXSW earlier this year. He spoke briefly about their Ideastorm, but really focused on sharing best practices around corporate blogging. When I noticed Dawn on the agenda at the Community 2.0 Conference, I knew we had to do a [...]
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I took the banner photo during our recent trip to Japan. It's one of the busiest intersections in the world, but everyone, cars and people, understand the rules of engagement and it works really well.Meta
