Jen's portion of her panel "Remote Engagement: Making the Connection When Your Community's Online" with Peggy Duvette of WiserEarth and Jeff Patrick of Common Knowledge
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What is “ Community Management? ” It is: customer service, relationship building, product management, aligning, connecting, including, dynamic It is not: just Tweeting, Facebooking, Blogging (though all of those things are typically included in what a CM does day to day
a social media manager strategy: Affinity groups and targets of your outbound communication (email, Twitter, blog, Facebook etc) don ’ t make a “ community ” Unequal Tenuous connection
In this example, the community manager has fostered 2 way communication with each affinity group and they have also become more connected to each other more or less equal connections are stronger
You are not limited to just “ listening ” & “ engaging ” - using social media has to be more than just that for ROI Ask your community - they want to be involved Your online community is similar to your offline community in that individuals have divergent strengths & weaknesses - make room for as many as you can Give them something in return SWAG recognition your direct email address Listen to your supporters and detractors, but try not to over-focus on one group - you might miss something
- have fun. Twitter haiku contest - winner gets a shirt or some other SWAG - challenges with reward (UCSF challenge) - ask your members to contribute - Facebook calls for donated translations - ask your community what they want - Go Pink selected the type of NPO they wanted to see benefit from the cause