Online Community is no longer just about forums and email lists— the key now is learning how to engage your community in many locations across various social media channels. This session will introduce the basics, including common stumbling blocks and how to avoid them, and the must-have tools that will help you more efficiently manage your community of volunteers and supporters.
13. Allows us to follow multiple streams across many social media sites, creating specialized campaign and search tabs for various projects, events and organizations
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17. Don’t forget about mobile tweeting (Tweetdeck for multiple accounts, channels mobile interface)
Janetfouts.com/listen and http://janetfouts.com/controlling-the-conversation/
Having events gives you a reason to share with your community, helps you reach outside communities, gives you the opportunity to be found on topical communities in the archiving, like Slideshare. Enlisting volunteer bloggers and tweeters opens your community up to more people, giving them ownership of the community. Helps create user-generated content.
Take advantage of FB’s graphical interface, don’t usehashtags, they aren’t serving their purpose on FB, tag via FB’s tagging convention.
Cher uses ALL CAPS, tweets longer than 140 so her stream is one long, disjointed tweet