Social Media

#13 The auto-curate hashtag is #pack! the ! is important to differentiate from other possible hashtags like #PACKingtomove or #PACKerssuck etc

As it stands right now, if you authorize myTweetPack for Linkedin you can use #LI or #in to auto-write a LinkedIn update.

I'll be working on how to load LI status updates from the RSS/ATOM feeds today. The tough part is in knowing where to cut the content so it makes sense but fits. We will also need to add a piece to EDIT FEEDS to enable/disable LI updates from any particular feed.

We don't pull anything from FB, BTW. Those are coming from elsewhere

cc: @Deb 🐝 Helfrich @Pamela 🐝 Williams @Jan 🐝 Barbosa

@Paul "Pablo" Croubalian I use twitter (doh) a lot, FB and beBee for all my updates. I notice when I post something to FB it comes though with a link and a little ditty. And I'm not familiar with how Tweetpack pulls some comments from FB and not others? I prefer status updates on beBee for myself because I'm here much more than on LI but I know many are using LI a lot too so I'm cool with that as well. Question, if we want something to auto tweet, do we use the hashtag #Packs or #Pack? Or has that changed? It was adding it to our scheduled tweets, right?

#11 Sure, assuming there's enough data in the feed to populate the LI update. As it is, right now, we have the code to automatically post a LI update whenever there's a Tweet with #in or #li in it.

That would use the Tweet text and the link in that tweet. LinkedIn updates are different.

I worked out that a LinkedIn update can have 1556 characters. Also, the format to post a LI update is completely different from posting a tweet. We're building a whole new backend to handle them. Eventually, we will store them, schedule them, recycle them, and generate them directly from RSS/ATOM feeds.

So far, we can store them, edit them, clone them, and delete them. Scheduling will be live by end of day. (fingers crossed)

The feed connection is considerably more complex and may take a couple of days to fine-tune. We will also need to update our beBee, LinkedIn, and Big Media feeds to pull in some of the actual posts. The trouble is to figure out where to cut the text so that it makes sense.

The trick is to not overwhelm your LI connections. FYI You are limited to 75 status updates a day, which is waaaay too many.

#1 Fascinating idea Paul. In a way I do that already using bufferapp and pulling from feeds but it still needs to be loaded manually 100 at a time. Is there a way to automate this so everything from the RSS feed gets posted?

#9 very astute.

Excellent questions, Paul. I'm not a tech geek -- although I'd like to BEE. However, I have noticed that sharing updates on LinkedIn actually generates much more engagement than by writing/posting on the LI Pulse publishing platform. Here's the latest example: I published an article on Medium about why CEOs should fire "monster managers" (as I call them). This article was previously published via beBee Producer and received 12,000 views https://www.bebee.com/producer/@dbgrinberg/memo-to-ceos-fire-monster-managers-now
Unfortunately, the engagement on Medium is usually very low, especially if you don't post on a Medium-based mini-publication, like Thrive Global used to be (it has since moved off Medium, for all practical purposes, and exists as a stand-alone site). Thus, I no longer publish articles on Thrive via Medium. My aforementioned post on Medium only received about 400 views and 13 "recommends" (the equivalent of a "Like" or "Relevant"). https://medium.com/@DBGrinberg/memo-to-ceos-fire-monster-managers-82ab551285bb
Yet when I posted the article on LinkedIn as an update it received well over 3,000 views, a dozen comments and was shared several times. The same can apply with beBee blog posts or updates. Just cross-post to LinkedIn and see how much additional engagement it registers. Cross-channel pollination (marketing) is key to spreading the buzz as broadly as possible. This strategy likewise applies to cross-posting on Facebook, Twitter and other big platforms.

#6 The creator of the update decides where it points to if anywhere. I don't think I'd allow people to edit each other's updates

#2 Pack members support each other in many ways.

Any other ideas? They don't need to be on my list. Every function on myTweetPack started as someone's wish.

Good questions. It is possible to support one another, but so that people often drive traffic to their web pages, it could be more useful to drive all traffic there.

Cc @Matt 🐝 Sweetwood @John White, MBA @Candice 🐝 Galek @Andrew 🐝 Goldman @Sara Jacobovici @Mamen 🐝 Delgado @Alberto 🐝 de la Torre

BTW very good initiative ! Kudoos ! (Wahooooo !) CC @David B. Grinberg @David 🐝 Martín Alonso @Stephane 🐝 Fenner @Lisa 🐝 Gallagher @Lance 🐝 Scoular

(drums !!!!!) I personally Would you like to support other people's updates!!! Because team building matters, and their spheres of influence too. My Humble opinion & choise since you asked.

I have tested many techniques, while content is king and will remain. Newsletters to registered personal acquaintances, followers or business contacts &clients are effective on LinkedIn. The Audience is outside the network L1-L2.
My choice in your list@Paul "Pablo" Croubalian is.....

Top suggestions so far:
1 - auto-populate status updates from RSS/ATOM feeds (like your beBee Producer, LinkedIn articles, Inc, Entrepreneur, Forbes, etc)
2 - Manage updates to Company Pages

#10 woops.....#ExplorebeBee....OMG too much social media....lol

@stephan metral 🐝 Innovative Brand Ambassador Which is the correct one? #beBeeExplore or #ExplorebeBee ? In your article you mention the first one and here the second.

Thanks @stephan metral 🐝 Innovative Brand Ambassador

#7 Siempre hay una primera vez para todo @stephan metral 🐝 Innovative Brand Ambassador

Thanks @Fran 🐝 Brizzolis its the 1st time i see a simple update doin 2K views.

Thanks @Milos Djukic

#4 ur welcone Joyce, #ilovebeBee #beBee are 2 others but they are corporate and all in one general topics, #ExplorebeBee is more specific to new (potential) users and novelties about what you can do with BB or share with like minded. They are also #Moments on Twitters that gather all tweets with same hashtags.

Thanks for the reminder, Stephan. I didn't know

@David B. Grinberg @Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA @Fernando 🐝 Santa Isabel Llanos @Sara Jacobovici @Lisa 🐝 Gallagher @Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee

@Fran 🐝 Brizzolis @Julián Campos @José 🐝 Jordán de Urríes @Federico 🐝 Álvarez San Martín @Mamen 🐝 Delgado

cc @Javier 🐝 beBee @Alberto 🐝 de la Torre @David 🐝 Martín Alonso @Lance 🐝 Scoular @Gabriel Bazzolo @Stephane 🐝 Fenner @Andrew 🐝 Goldman @☘️Don Philpott

#1 You would think that a large group would create value for the owners/managers. Well, I managed 23 LinkedIn groups for over 8 years (I owned some of them). The largest grew to 340,000+ members. Here are my thoughts on groups.

- Personal Reflections of a LinkedIn Group Owner and Manager
https://www.bebee.com/producer/@anne-thornley-brown/personal-reflections-of-a-linkedin-group-owner-and-manager

My conclusion:

"It is now much more work to manage groups and not as much fun. I had to ask myself, what is the pay-off? Other than some excellent peer-to-peer interaction and relationships with some great people, zero, zip, nada. Other than blogging, I can't think of one piece of business that my company has generated as a result of the many hours each and every week invested in group management."

I make it a point never to pay for something if the "free" version is not generating money.

I now own and manage 6 LinkedIn Groups. With the exception of one Facebook group for B2B bloggers, I have 4 Facebook groups for family, one for each grandparent. It has allowed me to connect with nearly 200 "new" cousins in 2 branches of my family. 60 online and more off=line in my paternal grandfathers family (I had met one aunt who passed away years ago so I knew no one when I started.) Over 100 in my maternal grandfather's family (I only ever knew 12 people including 2 aunts and 2 uncles who had passed away).

So Facebook and LinkedIn groups have their purpose. For business, not so much.

Hmm...I'm a bit nonplussed by this. Surely if you have a group with over 42,000 persons in it, you can afford to pay someone to manage it? It doesn't have to be cash - I got suckered into help managing a large group at G+ just for the visibility.
Are the groups of no use at all to the group owner?

#1 Absolutely 🎵

Thank you so much @Ana-María Llácer Sánchez @Irene 🐝 Rodriguez Escolar @Dominique 🐝 Petersen@ @@Julio Angel 🐝Lopez Lopez for your likes!!

That does not deceive It's pure feeling, beautiful image.