Everyone has bad days at work sometimes but as community managers, often we can't use the same outlets to vent our frustrations. When your name and face are publicly connected to your employer, you have to watch what you tweet. When you need to talk about your day, who or what do you turn to?
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Here in the San Francisco area home of Cultivating Community, May 9th is the 19th Annual Bike to Work Day. In honor of this awesome occassion, we've rounded up the best cycling communities around the internet.
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These are actors (thankfully), but with Community Manager being such a new career path, there are those self-proclaimed experts that are just a load of talk at the end of the day. Fortunately, they are vastly outnumbered by the awesome, talented, always learning, always sharing community managers that make up the majority.
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There's no denying that content is king online, but trying to create all that content on your own? It's exhausting and, frankly, boring for your readers and community members. Using content curation tools is a great way to find fresh content to share, build on, and even allow your community to join in on the editorial process with.
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It's the boring part of developing a new community: setting the Dos and Don'ts. While Community Guidelines will be an ever growing part of your community, getting some basics down will not only give users a clear idea of what's right and wrong, but it can also go a long way toward developing your community culture.
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Did you know that you can participate in regular chats with other community managers and influencers on certain hashtags? Even between scheduled chats, these hashtags are great places to find notable articles and conversations. Here are the community manager chats that stand out to me:
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The social media response to Monday's tragic Boston Marathon bombings was, for the most part, one of tact, community, and cautiousness and shows the power that social media and online community can have in times of crisis.
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By using responsible sourcing and attribution, you'll not only liven up your online content, but deepen relationships within your community.
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