Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog. In my previous post I discussed how to build your Twitter community, offering 10 tips as a guide. Here are a few tips on what not to do: (Make sure you know a few of the basic Twitter commands to understand the content of this post.) Don’t get caught up in the COUNT; get caught up in the CONTENT! My biggest pet peeve on Twitter is when people ask for more followers. I don’t think anyone has malicious intents, but it doesn’t make any sense to me. You get more followers because you provide great content, are entertaining or someone likes you. It’s much worse to have someone follow you, not like what you tweet and then unfollow you. Chances are, you’ve lost them for good. Practice good Twitter etiquette and don’t solicit followers for yourself or your friends. Don’t install the Twitter application on Facebook if you send more than 1

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog. Your Twitter community is your life line. The strength of your community determines overall what you will (or won’t) get out of the microblogging platform. What do you want to use Twitter for? I wanted to build a community where I could engage in dialogue, stay ahead of the social media curve and share some laughs. I just shared my objective with you. What’s yours? Start with your community objective and then go for it. Use the 10 tips below as your guide to grow the community which benefits you (and your audience). Do… Create a user-friendly Twitter ID (@yourname) Your Twitter ID is part of your personal brand. Plain and simple. Your first choice for a Twitter ID should be your name. There is nothing stronger for creating your personal brand. If your name is taken (as mine was) find a way to keep it as close as possible. (I add

BigTent, a networking and group management service that earlier this year made some news in the venture funding world, is opening itself to the general public today and is marking the occasion with a fresh design. The company, based in San Francisco, is touted as a connector for “real-world communities.” Thus, it is interesting to find that it has developed into a heavily parent- and club-oriented composite, providing tools for PTA and preschool collectives and the like. Its creators claim that over 50% fall into the “mom group” category. The objective behind BigTent’s creation is very simple: to cut time typically wasted with administrative busyness so that organizations of all sizes can work together in-person and in remote settings more efficiently. Which is really the pursuit of virtually any social service now residing on the Web. The formula employed by BigTent is straightforward. Things like newsletters, calendars, review and recommendation components, classifications

Flixster will be deploying Meebo Community IM later this evening. The product, which has been in the works since early this year, allows Flixster users to chat with one another using Meebo from inside of the Flixster interface, with a service that looks remarkably similar to Facebook Chat. Users get a buddy list showing which of their Flixster friends are currently signed on, their statuses, and notifications of their recent activities, such as rating movies. The instant messaging conversations take place within a taskbar that will reside at the bottom of the Flixster UI – just like on Facebook. Here’s a demo of how it works: While the Flixster experience is completely private labeled, conversations can be popped out and carried over into the Meebo UI. Likewise, your Flixster friends will be part of the buddy list you see when logged in on Meebo.com. Flixster is the first site to launch Community IM, but Meebo recently announced several other major partners, including MyYea

New York  10.10.08  Magnify.net, the leading Video Search and Integration Platform for Mid-Market Publishers, announced it is expanding into "how to" video aggregation for the fast growing sector of instructional video content.Magnify.net is adding high speed, on the fly, video search of 5min, ViewDo, and Expert Village to enable community managers for the 35,000 and growing content channels to have access to the discovery and inclusion of relevant teaching, training, and coaching videos.Said Ran Harnevo, co-founder and CEO of 5min.com said, "We're big fans of the growing syndication economy that is emerging around video. Clearly Magnify.net has done a great job of providing customers with the tools to find video and build video communities around that content. We think adding 5min to their search and integration solution is good for us and for video consumers alike.""We have been continually impressed by the quality and knowledge value that these sites have been able to fos

New York  10.10.08  Magnify.net, the leading Video Search and Integration Platform for Mid-Market Publishers, announced it is expanding into "how to" video aggregation for the fast growing sector of instructional video content.Magnify.net is adding high speed, on the fly, video search of 5min, ViewDo, and Expert Village to enable community managers for the 35,000 and growing content channels to have access to the discovery and inclusion of relevant teaching, training, and coaching videos.Said Ran Harnevo, co-founder and CEO of 5min.com said, "We're big fans of the growing syndication economy that is emerging around video. Clearly Magnify.net has done a great job of providing customers with the tools to find video and build video communities around that content. We think adding 5min to their search and integration solution is good for us and for video consumers alike.""We have been continually impressed by the quality and knowledge value that these sites have been able to fos

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