Writing a blurb Have you ever written a blurb for a book? Here’s how. Grab the reader’s attention The idea is to be engaging to the reader. Hence blurbs are short promotional pieces. They used to just be on the backs of books, but now they can be the copy you read on an Amazon […]
… And Facebook for All — Your Home Page Your Home Page. Log into Facebook, and it’s the first thing you see. It’s your Home Page. Here’s what’s in it. NOTE: Facebook constantly A/B tests. Features move around, change, are renamed and resized, or disappear all the time. These are rolled out in stages; your […]
More in a continuing series of Community Management tips and tricks.
… And Facebook for All — Your Profile Page Part I Your Profile Page Part 1. If you’re a member of Facebook, you’ve seen it dozens, if not hundreds, of times — it’s your Profile Page. There is also a Home Page, but I’ll cover that in the next segment. Right now, let’s just concentrate […]
The Risks of Having a Community Without Management Is yours a community without management? The post is a riff on The Community Roundtable’s 5 Risks of Having A Community Without Management. The author comes up with five good ones: A Ghost Town Land of 1,000 Flowers Drama Central A Circling Storm A Clique Ghost Town Here’s […]
Getting More Twitter Followers Getting More Twitter Followers. Oh, it’s the Holy Grail, isn’t it? Getting more people to follow you, and moving that magical Twitter followers number up, up and ever upwards, to stratospheric heights. And, even more importantly, increasing it to more than the number of people you’re following (more on that later). […]
The fun of offsite forum gatherings.
Love, Communities, and the Captivating Charm of Togetherness What would we do for the love of communities? What is it about an online community? Just what, exactly, draws people together online? Perhaps that is the better question. So when you look at Groundswell, the authors have the thing all figured out, or at least it […]
Tips on how to wake up a tired forum.
5 Ways for Charities to use Social Media First of all, here are 5 Ways for Charities to embrace the modern and use social media to help them. Because I still love an older great blog post on five possible uses for social media for charities. While I think these were good ideas (the Twitter Twibbon was one of […]