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10 Fresh Tips for Community Managers **This series is supported by the Social Influence System, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies. Most community managers are well-versed in the basics of social media engagement. We all know how to deal with trolls and how to create conversations. Here are some interesting and unorthodox bits of advice for the expert community manager — that tireless social media junkie with oodles of personality who's trying to balance marketing-driven execs with ego-tripping power users while still trying to maintain some semblance of a personal life. Community managers, feel free to chime in with your own best practices, oddball stories and lessons learned and words of wisdom for the newer folks in your ranks. 1. Community managers have to have the unflappable calm so often seen in the mothers of multiple young children. 2. 3. You're here to serve and support, not sell. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Community isn't a game of numbers. 10.
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5 Unique Ways to Use Twitter for Business **This series is supported by the Social Influence System and WE twendz™ pro, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies. Customer service, recruiting, contests, giveaways and promotions — these are all standbys for businesses using Twitter as a medium to connect with customers and fans. Given that Twitter as a platform supports nearly limitless applications for business use, we thought it time to highlight some of the newer Twitter-for-business opportunities that aren't so obvious. From pitching your followers and rewarding Twitter loyalty, to keeping a trained eye on the Twitterverse, targeting smaller communities, and adding metadata to tweets, here are some unique ways to use Twitter in your social business strategy. 1. As part of Mountain Dew's DEWmocracy campaign, the soda company empowered Flavor Nations — fan communities for new Dew flavors — to own a flavor of soda that the company is now testing on the market. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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