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April 30th, 2010

Voce Communications is Sponsoring WordCamp San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco is coming up this Saturday and for the second year, Voce will be sponsoring the event. It’s no secret we’re big fans of WordPress and the community, so we’re excited to be a part. It’s been another year of new sites and new challenges for the platform. Here’s a few things to [...]

Filed in Community, Events, WordPress

April 29th, 2010

Conversations with Community Managers Episode 5: Shwen Gwee, SocialPharmer

Voce Communications has partnered with The Community Roundtable to produce a new podcast series,Conversations with Community Managers. In this series, Voce’s Doug Haslam and The Community Roundtable’s Jim Storer speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with online community; what they are doing, the challenges and opportunities unique to their industry, [...]

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Filed in Community, Voce Nation Podcast

April 22nd, 2010

Conversations with Community Managers Episode 4: Rachel Happe, The Community Roundtable

Voce Communications has partnered with The Community Roundtable to produce a new podcast series,Conversations with Community Managers. In this series, Voce’s Doug Haslam and The Community Roundtable’s Jim Storer speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with online community; what they are doing, the challenges and opportunities unique to their industry, and [...]

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Filed in Community, Voce Nation Podcast

April 15th, 2010

Conversations with Community Managers Episode 3: Ryan Paugh, BrazenCareerist.com

Voce Communications has partnered with The Community Roundtable to produce a new podcast series,Conversations with Community Managers. In this series, Voce’s Doug Haslam and The Community Roundtable’s Jim Storer speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with online community; what they are doing, the challenges and opportunities unique to their industry, and [...]

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Filed in Community, Voce Nation Podcast

April 8th, 2010

Conversations with Community Managers Episode 2: Tim Walker, Hoovers

Voce Communications has partnered with The Community Roundtable to produce a new podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers. In this series, Voce’s Doug Haslam and The Community Roundtable’s Jim Storer speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with online community; what they are doing, the challenges and opportunities unique to their [...]

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Filed in Community, Voce Nation Podcast

March 23rd, 2010

Avoiding Problems Through Communication

I have little to no interest in rehashing the specifics of the debacle Nestle found itself in on Facebook last week. There have already been plenty of write-ups of the situation already, many of which have taken the obvious, and lazy, rhetorical route of declaring what one party or the other did a “FAIL.” The [...]

Filed in Community

February 23rd, 2010

Positive Actions and Consumer Intent

Recently while brainstorming some ideas for a client program I typed the following sentence: “Facebook Fan Page with (and here I listed out some incentives and interaction guidelines).“ I looked at it for a minute and then changed it to read: “Facebook Fan Page with (and here I listed out some incentives and interaction guidelines) [...]

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September 22nd, 2009

Making Do

For those of you who, like us, are in the communications industry and who, like us, are using social media tools in client programs, here’s a question to ask yourself: What if you couldn’t? If you’re a firm believer in the power of customer engagement, see the value in empowering employees to become thought leaders [...]

Filed in Community, Marketing

June 25th, 2009

Twitter trends around WordCamp SF

Considering the amount of tweeting, retweeting and replying to tweets the @VoceNation crew did at WordCamp SF earlier this month it’s interesting to read this analysis by social networking company Pathable of the amounts and different types of Twitter updates posted at or around the event. Most of the related content, according to Pathable, is [...]

Filed in Community, Microblogging

May 6th, 2009

Voce Sponsoring WordCamp SF

WordCamp SF approaches this Saturday, May 30th, and I’m fired up to say, for the first time, Voce’s stepping in as a sponsor. For a few years now, we’ve “unofficially” been big believers and supporters of the WordPress organization, its platforms and, well, its larger open source community. It started frankly with our clients’ needs [...]

Filed in Blogging, Community, Events