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Wednesday Buzz: Social Media Mistakes of 2015

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As the year nears conclusion, it’s time to review some of the biggest marketing mistakes of 2015. From the misreported death of the Queen of England to inappropriately suggestive advertising, CIO has compiled its list of the most cringeworthy media campaigns of 2015. — TIME.com (@TIME) December 9, 2015. byfU6tyGFb.

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Build Your Customer Journey Map With 7 Community Touchpoints

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Your online community can be the hub for all relevant documentation, content and videos, and peer groups to start new customers off on the right foot in this first phase of the customer journey. You have a ready-made list of active, happy, and unhappy customers at your fingertips, and a reason to recruit them.

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Great News – America’s Hiring and Associations have a Reason to Celebrate

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This good news was echoed in the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for Q1 2015 where 18,000 US employers reported a positive Net Employment Outlook, and almost 20% anticipated an increase in their staff levels during Q1 2015. “As The ongoing race to identify and recruit qualified talent will only increase as we move into 2015.

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Career Centers Provide Associations with Unfilled Opportunity

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015 closed with 5.6 These members are often the most valued by recruiters and employers. As the economy continues to improve, people previously content to stay in their current positions are more open to new job opportunities when exposed. According to the latest report from the U.S.

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New Community Managers: What You Need to Know

Higher Logic

Launched NSBE's first community in May 2015, Nicole offers up some great advice for new community managers. I then recruited members from our marketing, IT, and membership departments to help spread the word. We also used the convention to recruit beta testers (I ended up having about 100 people commit).

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Blogs that work.and spread

Higher Logic

If you’re a community manager, you can use effective blog posts to recruit and communicate with both current and potential community members – and all of these principles apply. As you may know, this familiar technique is called content marketing. Content strategy for bloggers. Topical content spreads. It’s racked up 1.3

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Doubling Down on Association Career Centers

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In June, we highlighted that LinkedIn was moving fast towards their goal , yet niche job boards remained highly effective and extremely popular with recruiters. As the economy continues to improve, people previously content to stay in their current positions are now ready to seek out new opportunities. We’re betting on it!