HOW TO: Manage a Facebook Group. Alison Driscoll is an interactive copywriter and social media consultant who specializes in .
She authors a blog at alisondriscoll.com. Facebook Pages may be taking the social network by storm, but they can take time and technical skill to set up. When you need to promote something quickly, or are looking to foster a stronger sense of community, the more traditional Facebook Group is often the way to go. While not as fancy as Pages, Groups offer many of the same features, with a slightly more streamlined look. This makes it easy for virtually anyone to create a Group, for any number of purposes, and get them live quickly—an important benefit in the time-sensitive social media sphere. However, the ease and speed with which a Group can be set up has created a lot of spammy or messy Groups that are slapped together in minutes and abandoned soon after. Global, Open, and Public Fill Out All Fields Use Correct Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Include Keywords for Easier Search Make New Friends.
What happens when your community grows up? This is a guest post from Douglas Atkin, CEO at The Glue Project and author of “The Culting of Brands.”
What happens between the moment of birth and spawning (when the community is mature-the subject of the last post)? Communities go through recognizable life-stages as they grow. You should be aware of them because you can anticipate and meet the community’s needs by both providing the right tools at the right time and tasking yourself with the right leadership actions appropriate to each stage. And if you’re building a community platform, it’s smart to be aware of what stage needs what tools, when… crowding a new community with tools it doesn’t need can confuse the user experience. Above is a simplified diagram of the stages and what they need. Below is a bit more of a description. Birth At this stage it’s unlikely that you have a real community on your hands… yet. Adolescence Now the community is taking off. What characterizes this stage is: Early Maturity Now you’re humming. 25+ Top WordPress Twitter Widget And Plugin Gallery.
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Finding that information can be difficult in a fragmented media environments that often fluctuate between extremes of too much or too little information, and when key institutions like government fail to facilitate access to public information. Creating Local Online Hubs: Three Models for Action, a new policy paper by Adam Thierer, explores three scenarios under which community leaders and other stakeholders can work together to create local online hubs where citizens can access information about their governments and local communities.
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