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Andy Capaloff

Context Broadens Audience. Questions Broaden Discussion

To Break free of the Silo, look outside of it. Seems obvious, right?  But somehow, whereas the problem is evident to many, a broad solution remains elusive.  Indeed, as communities form within the Content Marketing world, could it be that the culture is exacerbating rather than alleviating the issue? It is what prompted me to…


Anastasia Ashman

Use Social Context To Connect

Is it just me (and my timelines), or is everyone suddenly talking about the unignorable power of social context? I often see patterns emerging across all my information feeds, from thousands of sources in my realms of culture, media and publishing, technology, marketing, entrepreneurship and leadership. What bubbles to the surface across multiple fields is…


Anastasia Ashman

What’s The True Value Of Social Networking?

You’re a leading a digital life. Do you sense that? Rather than going online to do something in particular and then going offline to where you actually live and work, the virtual world now represents a fuller picture of who you are and what you are up to. It complements and enriches and facilitates the…


Anastasia Ashman

Simple Way To Welcome People Into Your Network: Open Doors

If you’re here at Curatti, you’re building digital community. All of us here are seeking connection with people we want to be in touch with, whether we’re business owners or marketers or industry peers, or simply exploring the professional possibilities of today’s increased connectivity. I know for me, as a solopreneur with a publishing world…


Anastasia Ashman

Fill Out Your GooglePlus Profile To SEO Yourself

In this weekly series on online community building, I’ve been talking about how to appear online as the distinct entity you are using unique content, whether you’re representing yourself as an individual or as an employee of a company, or as a business. Today I want to focus for a moment where all that content might…


Anastasia Ashman

Go Public With Your Process To Attract Like-Minded People

Are you pulling together a pile of personal and professional content that you might share in your online networks? If you are, you might be realizing that mountain of stuff represents your effort and interest, and independent research. Most likely, some of this material represents the things you chose to do because they make you…


Anastasia Ashman

How To Find And Share Content That Makes You Distinct

We’re born content producers. The more prolific among us are literally volcanoes of content. In this digital age of connection and resonance, it pays to understand ourselves as content producers. We’ve all got valuable, individualistic treasure to work with. I’m a proponent of using this kind of material in online spaces, in moderation, whether or…


Anastasia Ashman

The Great Big Social Networking Experiment

You’re building a global network. Today, we all are. Most of us have never built a global network before. We’ve never had the vast capability that we now have thanks to social technologies. No wonder we don’t know what we’re doing. It’s all an experiment. Trial — and error. And the stakes are getting higher every…


Anastasia Ashman

Here’s How to Use Social Media To Build Powerful Networks

If you’re thinking about growing or engaging your network online, I find a lot of people somehow manage to skip two fundamental steps. 1. Include people you already know 2. Actively connect to people It seems when we’re focused on community building on the web we feel the need to reinvent the wheel! For instance,…


Anastasia Ashman

Who Should You Follow Back and Why?

If you’re just getting started with social networking, here’s a hard-earned lesson many veteran online networkers are still coming to terms with. Don’t follow back on social networks, just because. Establish an intentional follow policy. Maybe it seems polite to follow someone who followed you or, you’re connected to them in some other part of…


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