A couple of months ago a colleague poked his head into my office and asked, "How do you find your community?" He was...
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5 Rules For Dealing With A Negative Nancy
Community is a lot like an organism, if one part gets infected, it can kill the whole being. So how do you prevent the...
Building a Community From the Ground Up
Last week someone asked me: How do you build a community? I paused. I hadn't thought about it before. For the past...
How To Use Klout as a Community Management Tool
*Editor's Note: Klout has recently updated their platform to be about content creation. Influence matters for...
You’ve become a Social Media Manager. Now What?
Congratulations! You got the job as a social media community manager, and you're now in the world of professional...
What Really Motivates Users and Community Members
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on TechCrunch and is adapted from Hooked: A Guide to Building...
5 Reasons Community Managers are the Heroes of their Organizations
Community Manager Appreciation Day 2014 was a huge success, and wow was it amazing to see all that recognition for...
A High-Level Look at How to Measure Community Success
This post originally appeared on Loyal's blog. Loyal is a community development studio. -- One of the biggest...
10 Simple Productivity Tips for Community Professionals
This post originally appeared on the Loyal blog. Community management can be a chaotic job and it helps to have a...
The Business Value of Community – Real Examples from Threadless, The Huffington Post and Fitocracy
This post was originally published on The Fetch by Sarah Judd Welch, CEO of Loyal. Over the past few years, I've seen...
A Simple Guide to Content Planning for Community Managers
This post originally appeared on Loyal. -- Are you a community manager that's responsible for managing content? I've...
Why Charging Members Will Hurt your Community
This is a question that comes up frequently in the community world. As more and more people are embracing a career in...