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		<title>Tomorrow is Community Manager Appreciation Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This day of appreciation may not be on your radar, but it is certainly on mine. The brainchild of Jeremiah Owyang, this is a day that is near and dear to my heart and one that allows us to reflect on the hard work that goes into the craft. It is not a science, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2235&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five reasons to shut down your community, today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad online communities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time. Give it up. Your heart was in the right place, but you didn&#8217;t do anything to support your effort.You thought that building the community was enough. You never hired anyone to manage it. You mistakenly believed that your brand was so amazing and beloved, that people would flock to your community to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2216&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>True community must be earned</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2011/04/18/true-community-must-be-earned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Harris Teeter"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve posted. It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t been motivated, nor that I didn&#8217;t have the time. I never have the time. I&#8217;m pretty sure that no one really has  time to blog, we all just make it happen.  And typically I do. But I haven&#8217;t lately. But a recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2123&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live from a Community Manager&#8217;s Inbox</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2011/02/27/live-from-a-community-managers-inbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managing online communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online community manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills for community managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always happy to discuss the difficulty of managing an online community. I&#8217;ve written about the misconceptions, provided tips on what it takes to find success, and explained the differences between a community manager and a social media manager. Because I don&#8217;t actively manage an online community any more, I don&#8217;t share as many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2102&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Managers: Be genuine or don&#8217;t bother</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2011/02/10/community-managers-be-genuine-or-dont-bother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not easy being a community manager. It seems that many people are content to call themselves community managers because they manage a Twitter account, post content on a Facebook fan page (with the goal of &#8220;engaging&#8221; the masses, or at least those who actually visit the page or allow posts on their newsfeeds) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2089&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t underestimate the power of lurkers</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2011/01/07/dont-underestimate-the-power-of-lurkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building a new community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diving into a community head first can be intimidating for some people, even though it may be second nature to you and me. Sometimes it&#8217;s much easier to stay in the background and lurk, enjoying the community with no real commitment. It&#8217;s the lurkers sometimes, who contribute to that valuable &#8220;time spent&#8221; stat community managers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2068&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every comment counts</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2011/01/04/every-comment-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every tweet, Facebook update and comment posted online is a form of communication. Whether that comment is on a blog post, news article, YouTube video or Flickr photo, it counts. So my question is this: Why isn&#8217;t this content being held to the same high standard and given the same level of thought as traditional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2043&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building relationships online is not a line item for your checklist</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2010/12/27/building-relationships-online-is-not-a-line-item-for-your-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you begin to make resolutions for 2011, please don&#8217;t add a line item to your list about &#8220;building relationships online&#8221; or &#8220;engaging with customers through social media&#8221; without putting some real thought into how you will do it, and most importantly how you will sustain it. But even before doing that, think about why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2033&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: The state of online branded communities</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2010/11/10/report-the-state-of-online-branded-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write a great blog post to go along with the release of this study by ComBlu on the state of online branded communities but given my current workload, it isn&#8217;t going to happen today. HOWEVER,  I really want you to know about it and more importantly, download it so you can dig [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=2005&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV show &#8216;Community&#8217; launches with a Twittersode</title>
		<link>http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2010/09/23/ever-heard-of-a-twittersode/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really interesting to see how the networks are using social media to garner interest in their TV shows. I&#8217;ve read a lot about various tactics, but hadn&#8217;t felt compelled to share any up until now. If you haven&#8217;t already, add this word to your vocabulary: Twittersode. If you want to know what it entails, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.angelaconnor.com&amp;blog=3412022&amp;post=1931&amp;subd=onlinecommunitystrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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