Category: Blog
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Welcoming New Members to Your Online Social Network
As your community grows, you’ll still need to roll out the welcome mat for new members. When people join, they should feel at home, familiar and part of the environment.
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How to Build Identity to cement your online community
Your members have two hands on your private social network. One hand holds onto the people they know. That’s what keeps people on platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp: they join and stay because their friends have joined and stayed. If their friends were to leave they’d leave too…
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Why private messages matter on your social network
Private messaging looks like just another feature on a community site that should be packed with useful features. It should also be the least interesting. But private messaging is still a vital part of the community.
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Newsletter VS a Private Social Network
Services like Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor are making it easier and easier for people to send good looking, fully responsive newsletters out to their client base. They can get great results for businesses wanting to boost sales…but the percentage of people who actually open their newsletters is fairly pathetic.
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Private Social Networks: Real Results for Real People
Before PeepSo, there was JomSocial; a Joomla plugin that would allow you to create your own private social network on any Joomla-based website.
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How to Persuade Your Members to Post Content That Counts on Your Private Social Network
Once your private social network is up and running, you should be looking to pull back, focus on marketing and leave much of the community management to the members. That includes content creation.
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Why Your Community Isn’t Growing as Quickly as You’d Like
When you launched your community, you would have been super-busy. You would have been corralling your first members, welcoming new members, looking to raise the community’s profile, answering questions and creating content to spark discussions…
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Understanding the Benefits of a Community
In the last message, I discussed monetization. An online private social network always has the potential to make money but a cash flow isn’t the only benefit that an online community can bring. Those benefits aren’t always as easy to measure (or spend) as money but they are valuable.
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Why Everyone Should Learn to Code
If supermodel Karlie Kloss can learn to code between international flights, fashion shows and photoshoots, you can fit some basic coding lessons around your busy life too.
