building robust online communities with pinterest, foursquare and instagram
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Developing Robust Online Communities with Pinterest, Foursquare and Instagram
Raul PachecoHB Strategies/Hummingbird604.com
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Communities that Rock Creating kick-ass online communities
Arieanna Schweber (@arieanna) & Raul Pacheco
(@hummingbird604)
Available at:
http://hummingbird604.com/book
What is a community?
Communities have many shapes and sizes
- $ 1 billion acquisition by Facebook.
- 10 million users sign up AFTER acquisition by Facebook.
BEYOND THE STATS:
- Potential for storytelling
- Visual content
- Builds connection and trust
- Pinterest appeals to college-educated females between the ages of 25 to 44.
- The average Pinterest user is on 89 minutes a month while an average Twitter user is on 21 minutes a month.
- Pinterest is the third most popular social media platform in the United States. (140 million visits/mo)
BEYOND THE STATS:
- Tells a full story
- Highly shareable, visual content
- Builds connection and trust
- Foursquare has more than 15 million users (including Barack Obama)- Altogether these users have checked in more than 1.5 billion times (Globe and Mail)
BEYOND THE STATS:
- Gamification and community building
- Competition
- Builds connection around a trusted brand or individual
What are the attributes of robust online communities?- readers visit your site daily (if you write daily)- your average time-on-site is over 35 seconds- you have a high proportion of traffic coming from direct URLs (people typing in your URL / using a bookmark)- you have a high click-through rate on posts promoted to outside social networks- you have comments on most of your posts, usually many comments per post- you get a lot of votes in your polls- people send you tips via email, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Foursquare or Instagram
Schweber and Pacheco (2011)
The 3 C's of Online Community Building
Content
Context
Connection
Pacheco and Schweber (2012)
Content- Make sure your content is relevant to your audience
- Post good content.
- Post content often (and do NOT abandon the platform).
- Create shareable content.
Context- Make your content relevant for a larger, broader audience.
- Ensure your shared content has context built-in.
- If you post the same content across platforms, ensure each post has content that translates across contexts.
Connection- Cross-post across platforms judiciously. (Avoid simple cross-post like the plague)
- Connect with your follows.
- Connect with your followers (that is what the Comments function is for!)
Tip # 1: Build in on your brand's community
Tip # 2: Respond to negative feedback!
Tip # 3: Attribute and credit ALL YOUR SOURCES.
Tips # 4 and 5: Be authentic within the brand. Provide content that users will want to follow.
Tip # 6: Post content that tells an integrated story.
Tip #7: Always make your website and/or blog the hub of all your social media activity.
Tips # 8 and 9: Post original content in a timely manner. Cross-reference your platforms as you see fit.
Tip # 10: Do not be purely a broadcaster.