Jeska D's Community Thoughts

Kurt Vonnegut

When you start a blog, you will hear a lot about how to grow your audience. You will read about gaining readers and followers, and why SEO is important. All of those things are important for page views—but there is something I believe is far more rewarding and important for everything you do online: building your online community.

Building community takes time, commitment, consistency and a strong sense of reoccurring events. 

Dick Costolo, CEO Twitter on Twitter's failure at controlling abuse on their platform. (source)

Very smart commentary from Martin Belam, explores forum/board communities and the people who love them.

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Love seeing a ton of my fave Community Manager peeps on this list and humbled by my own inclusion - Love you fellow Community Managers!

Check out the latest data from our first community manager salary survey focused on the careers of community management.

"If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated."

I would argue this has been true for some time, but companies who figure it out sooner will thrive.

How do you find influencers in your community? When you do, how do you create an environment that allows them to feel important and proud to be a part of what you're building?

Like so many other things, the Internet didn't invent trolling or bullying. Kierkegaard observed the nasty human traits in his journals back in 1847. Haters gonna hate.

Must read. Danger of letting monsters pass as internet trolls.

A Manifesto for Building Relationships in the Digital Era by @briansolis & @gapingvoid

Great stuff, @mhames with 10 reasons people don't care about your content creation.

You will never beat a troll. You will never change a troll’s mind. You may delude yourself into thinking that you proved them wrong, however, never in my years of dealing with trolls have I seen a troll lay down his or her arms and say, “You know what, you’re right. I was so wrong.”