by Cheryl Treleaven | Jul 21, 2014 | Community
This morning, I met up with a couple of industry friends to kick around a few ideas on how to take a venerable community to a new level of engagement. Like many folks in the tech space, their community members are stretched thin with little time and budget to devote...
by Cheryl Treleaven | Jun 23, 2014 | Content
What do you learn when you visit nearly 100 support portals or public knowledge bases (KB) in a short period of time? Here are five observations from just such a recent journey that I took as part of a research project. The experience mostly sucks. My gut tells me...
by Pam Flores | Jun 17, 2014 | Community
Earlier this month, my colleague Colleen wrote a very interesting post on the Topography of Twitter Networks that laid out the six network types on Twitter and explained how each network has a different structure of connection and influence. Her blog provided insights...
by Brenda Todd | Jun 16, 2014 | Community
After the longest winter ever, summer has finally arrived! Depending on the type of community you are managing, the summer months – and their natural distractions – could have a very real impact on your community engagement levels. Families go on vacation and people...
by Colleen Nolan | Jun 16, 2014 | Community
Understanding how to leverage Twitter for your brand or organization is a challenge. With over 250 million active users Twitter can feel like a giant social universe that is hard to navigate. In addition, not a great deal is known about how to classify Twitter...