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Kevin Fielding
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I joined ThePort team in March 2010 as a Project Manager. I work on new implementations, client support, product management and marketing a...
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Blogs come in several different flavors within our platform. Users can create personal blogs that appear on their user profiles. Each Social Space can have a blog that its members and administrators contribute to. Finally, community administrators can create blogs for community members to contrib...
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Did you know blogs can be imported from other sources?
This is a great tool to encourage thought leaders in your arena to publish content to your community. If an impactful individual has an outside blog on another website such as WordPress, you can simply create them a blog in your community and use an RSS feed to import all new posts they make outside of the community. From there the blog will function like all others in the community and members can comment and like the content.
Encourage your most active community members to participate in select collaborative blogs.
Collaborative blogs allow several members to create posts to the same blog. In most communities a small percentage of users typically become active leaders in the community. You'll notice these folks when they start answering other member's questions before your team can even get to them in some cases. Reach out to these folks and see if they'd like to generate more authoritative content within your community via a collaborative blog. Since other users likely already know and trust these folks its a great way to increase blog readership.
Maintain and/or import
your organization's blog within the community.
This one is pretty self explanatory but given that the community is a uniquely branded social presence for your organization, your blog(s) are great content to host within the community.
