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post by: Matthew Hammer, VP- Marketing Written by former LiveWorld employee, @BryanPerson Yesterday afternoon, I led a Blogging 101 presentation at an all-day seminar on social media, held by San Antonio Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Here are the slides from my presentation: View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: prsasanantonio blogging)
post by: Jenna Woodul Online communities are like offline communities. First, you’re new and inexperienced; then you know the ropes. Eventually you become thoroughly integrated and familiar with the culture. Finally, you may develop connections and friendships with a subset of the group, which then begins to meet separately from the whole. When cliques form like this, new arrivals […]
post by: Matthew Hammer, VP- Marketing Written by former LiveWorld employee, @BryanPerson Here’s an interesting nugget from Mitch Joel’s recent post wrapping up the Shop.org Annual Summit: On customer ratings and reviews site, “a negative review converts more effectively into a sale than a positive review.” At first, this might sound counter-intuitive, but think about it: If you’re looking to buy a […]
post by: Matthew Hammer, VP- Marketing Peter Kim hits on an issue today that I alluded to in a SocialVoice post last week: the real definition of community. It’s troubling — though not entirely surprising — to see that word thrown around so carelessly, as if a blog or a message board on its own is a community. It isn’t. Without people congregating, connecting, […]
post by: Jenna Woodul Working with one of our clients this week, I’m thinking about how to engage women in their 50s in online community. Despite that fact that online community was invented by Boomers (many of us cut our online teeth on newsgroups, BBS discussions, and IRC), the Groundswell profile tool shows that 44% of the Boomer population are not active in […]
post by: Jenna Woodul Working on the cultural aspects of a community, it’s helpful to interview people who work closely with a company’s customers. People who spend hours with folks on the phone and in person (or even in e-mail exchanges)have great insight to offer for an online cultural framework. They know what most customers ask about, what they […]