Remove online-communities

Aaron Wolowiec

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Community management is about strategy

Aaron Wolowiec

Although still relatively new, online communities are quickly becoming popular platforms for engagement, discussion and membership. But there’s still some confusion about best practices and culture, according to a new report by The Community Roundtable and Higher Logic. “In Giving members a voice is key to community success.

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Community management is about strategy

Aaron Wolowiec

Although still relatively new, online communities are quickly becoming popular platforms for engagement, discussion and membership. But there’s still some confusion about best practices and culture, according to a new report by The Community Roundtable and Higher Logic. “In Giving members a voice is key to community success.

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The X, Y and Z of membership

Aaron Wolowiec

Associations need to provide better benefits and offer different membership models, such as tiered or online memberships. And they need to build an online presence and encourage virtual networking. So now what? It’s sort of like stocking up on bug spray for the summer.

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Speaker coaching: The key to unlocking top-rated conference sessions

Aaron Wolowiec

Online community devoted to questions, answers and other resources intended to support speaker development. Aggregate feedback from attendee evaluations focused more on learning outcomes than on attendee reactions. Self-evaluations conducted by speakers and peer-reviewed by staff/volunteers. Mastery does not occur overnight.

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What my 60 year old father reminds us about Facebook

Aaron Wolowiec

Rather, I’m surprised because prevailing assumptions in the association community is that Baby Boomers either aren’t on social media platforms or aren’t actively engaged with us in those spaces. So, my question to you is this: Has your organization found this Baby Boomer presence online? Dad “liked” a Facebook status update.

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The Connection Factor

Aaron Wolowiec

This month’s guest blog post is by Elsbeth Russell, senior editor at Naylor, LLC , who works with association executive clients to produce content-targeted print and online publications. This gets the conversation started and builds a sense of community with peers who might have, moments ago, been strangers.

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Practice what we preach: Breathing life into curated content

Aaron Wolowiec

Online community. We ask presenters to upload their own session materials to our Connected Community. We are working on goals and measures for our online community. Podcasts, videos, meeting materials online. Online learning, recordings of sessions, continuing education opportunities. Recordings.

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