Tips and Tutorials: Groups
Following up on our featured tips highlighting music, mobile, photo sharing, and video sharing, let’s talk about groups. Groups promote discussion and sharing for your members, privately or publicly, with conversations under member control. A tool that naturally organizes members by topics, interests or friendships, groups offer advanced functionality such as event creation, unique admin…
Tips and Tutorials: Music Sharing
Jazz up your community with music. As with other industries, music has gone social; Spotify populates Facebook feeds with songs your friends play, Soundcloud connects artists directly with fans, and YouTube commonly hosts audio only music posts with no video. Some say music and social media just seem to go together – 50% of Twitter…
Tips and Tutorials: Mobile Engagement
The future is mobile, and optimizing your community for mobile activity is essential as people from all demographics spend more time on mobile devices each year. The International Telecommunication Union estimates that global mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011 reached 6 billion. That means 87 percent of the world’s population has a mobile device,…
Tips and Tutorials: Video Sharing
Continuing where our Photo Sharing post left off, let’s talk video! Photos may be in the spotlight recently, but some say videos are next, with Viddy and others racing to be the next Instagram of video. Netflix streams Hollywood to our homes, we upload clips to the web—one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube…
