10 Tips for Aspiring Community Managers from Mashable by Vadim Lavrusik When Do You Weed Your Community Garden? from Collabnet by Guy Martin 5 Ways to Build an Online Social Community from Mind Sprout Marketing How To Calm Employees Into Social Media from Outspoken Media by Lisa Barone A Day in the Life of [...]
Archive | August, 2010
SWIX Dashboard Showcase: Disney
Toy Story has had a few firsts: first ever computer animated film and now its the number one grossing animated film of ALL TIME. This animated gem has had a lot of tech buzz aswell, first being featured during the release of Apple's iAds platform. It caused even more ruckus when Toy Story 3 was [...]
Favourite Community Management Posts of the Week
Ah yes- once again our top five posts for all the zealous community manager content fiends! – 8 Traits You should Look For in a Community Manager from Proper Propaganda by Jackson Wightman – Three Smart Reasons to Empower Instead of Influence from B2C Marketing Insider – Moderation in Moderation: managing online communities and user [...]
Favourite Community Management Posts of the Week
We hope you rocked your week, here's a dose of our regular community management love: How to Get Influencers in Your Community to Pay Attention from ManagingCommunities.com Why Coffee is The #1 Community Management Tool from Outspoken Media by Lisa Barone Tips for Managing Social Media Information Overload from WebWorkerDaily by Dawn Foster Six Communications [...]
Does it get more Canadian than this?
This past weekend, my wife and I hit another amazing milestone. We brought our son canoeing for the first time in his life. At first he wasn't so sure about it but quickly realized that canoeing is fun stuff. Above is pic of us paddling down the Gatineau river. It all ended in a swim. [...]
Community managers need more say
Clay McDaniel of Spring Creek Group wrote a great post on Mashable today entitled "HOW TO: Avoid a Social Media Disaster" – Aside from some basic stuff, he brought up an interesting point about community managers' role vis a vis other departments. Take a look… The community manager should work with the executive and PR [...]
Favourite Community Management Posts of the Week
- How to develop your observation skills for effective community management from Blaise Grimes-Viort – HOW TO: Manage a Sustainable Online Community from Mashable by Rob Howard – Community Management Lessons- Part 1 from Stuart Sutherland – 5 Tips for Managers of Linked In Groups: It Takes More Than Tools! from Building Online Communities for [...]
SWIX offers data exporting
A lot of our users are independent social media pros or agencies who are gathering data on behalf of their clients, and then providing interpretation and analysis of the results. Yesterday, we quietly snuck in a new feature that will make this easier and more powerful. You'll notice a new DATA tab in the main [...]