Message Strategies With all due respect to the late Marshall McLuhan, the medium is still the message, but the message is now also the medium and the two are now joined at the hip, at least when it comes to social media. As Smith notes on page 172, the communication process can be divided into […]
Social Media in a Crisis – a Look at Sabra Hummus and Listeria In April of 2015, Sabra hummus faced a social media and public health crisis. Some tests for hummus flavors contained the listeria bacterium. What is Listeria? Why is it such a Problem? Per FoodSafety.gov, Listeria is the name of a bacteria found in soil […]
Best Practices in Using Social Media for Customer Service When it comes to best practices for using using social media in customer service, it all seems to boil down to three things – Be fast Be empathetic Be useful Be Fast In our hurry-up culture, two minutes to microwave a meal sometimes seems too long. Social […]
The Importance of Content Marketing for Community Managers Why is content marketing important for Community Managers? It is deceptively easy for companies to ‘get on Facebook’ or ‘get a Twitter’, and start pushing content out through a firehose. Companies may even make a splash in the beginning. But it’s unsustainable. Furthermore, it’s not serving customers and […]
The Most Important Role of a Community Manager I’ve been a Community Manager for over a decade but don’t believe I have seen a better outline of our roles and sub-roles than this graphic – I have been in all of these roles, at one time or another. Because I am a volunteer and Able2Know […]
Virtual Groups & Online Communities As John Donne famously wrote, “No man is an island.” On the internet, there seems to be a similar but not identical truth – few people want to be an island. And so we create enclaves. Some of our enclaves mimic those we see in the offline world – we […]
This post is a riff on 10 Community Roundtable Member Predictions for 2011. If you don’t follow the Community Roundtable, you should — they are very knowledgeable about an aspect of social media that is very near and dear to me — the creation, nurturing and management of online communities. I only wish that my […]