Community management — listening, responding, commenting, providing customer support — is the “social” part of social media. Putting it on the back burner or, worse, ignoring it will spell doom for your brand online.
Mike Koehler from Smirk New Media knows this. His agency has a unique perspective and approach to responsiveness, prioritizing it for clients and helping them understand the value of community management. He stopped by Go Ahead Caller to give us a perhaps needed reminder about it, too.
After Mike’s interview, I talk a bit about the future of audio books, thanks to a sample chapter I heard from Malcolm Gladwell’s upcoming release. And I share a personal anecdote on the value of participation I think is a good start to the short work week.
Dive in and enjoy!
Mike Koehler can be found on LinkedIn. For more from Smirk New Media, find them at SmirkNewMedia.com.
Other links and show notes:
- Malcolm Gladwell’s bonus podcast episode and Chapter 3 of Talking to Strangers — the future of audiobooks — on Revisionist History
- The L.A. Times article on Mark Horvath’s charity calendar from 2012.
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Next week, we’ll have a bit of a back-to-school edition of Go Ahead Caller. Ana Homayoun is the author of the new book Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World. She’ll be on the show to talk about how to help our children use devices and social media appropriately. It will not be a live video recording as I’m participating in an event Tuesday. The podcast recording of that interview will go live at 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning, so be sure to jump over and subscribe to the podcast feed to not miss it. Again — No LinkedIn live next week. Just the podcast recording on the show’s feed.
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