Facebook recently made it possible to switch from a profile to a page. The biggest difference between a profile and a page is that a page only needs to be ‘liked’. With a profile, the user needs to become friends.
Community management is not just about putting out fires, but also about managing the interaction between members. The tone and choice of words you use are essential to your success as a community manager. Text is a tricky factor in this regard; misunderstandings due to interpretation arise quickly and adjustments are often not uganda phone number list possible immediately.
Tone and word choice is something you have to sense
A good community manager is a strong communicator and must be a real people person. I would like to underline that statement based on a case I experienced last year, where my initial enthusiasm about a community was immediately extinguished by the communication with the community manager or administrator of the group.
Dutch Media Network
With over 8000 members, the Dutch Media Network claims to be the largest social network for communication professionals in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is a large club, with a group of 6100 members on LinkedIn. I came across their Ning network at one point and decided to become a member for the simple reason that there seemed to be many members who were interesting for my daily practice. A great group to exchange ideas with about, for example, the changing role of publishers. At least, that’s cyprus business directory what you would think. Because such a large network has its act together, right?
Community Rules
In practice, things turned out to be less rosy. When registering for Ning, it quickly became Facebook enables apparent that there were that same evening, the staff presented the report to johann a few ‘rules of the game’ that you had to read. No problem. We all know what to expect. Then it’s clear. One of those rules was that everyone had to have an avatar. To keep the community personal or something. Fine, nothing against it. Now, it just so happened that I was busy with other things that day and first registered an account and then ran out the door.