A good
community manager, also known as Social media Manager, (CM) should have multitask skills, in order to better meet it’s
employers needs.
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1. A Good General Knowledge Of The
Web
A CM should master the vocabulary related to digital. Each
social media has its terminology. For instance, we have words like: Forum, social network, blog, website, post, storytelling…
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2. A Good Knowledge Of Social Media Writing Content Methodology
Writing on social
media requires good writing skills. Moreover, each social media has its particularity. For example, for a post on Twitter, you may provide only 140
characters which is not the case on Facebook.
3. A good
knowledge of websites content writing methodology
A website is the showcase of an enterprise. As such,
it should be well designed and well written. To know more about an enterprise,
most cybernauts may go on the website. So, it is important for a CM to master
the methodology of a website, commonly called graphic charter.
Furthermore the indexation of a website depends on its
content.
4. SEO, SEA and Local Indexing
For a company or an activity to be found by search engines, the Social media manager should master web
indexing.
A website indexing can be done at free of charge on
websites directories, websites phone book, or commercial websites, depending on
your activity.
The referencing can also be paid through Google
Adwords or other search engines.
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5. Graphic design
Images talk more on social media than texts. Internet users
may like to see what you are talking about than to read. So, a CM must be able
to edit an image for its post.
6. A
Good Knowledge Of Social Media
Each social media is unique. Twitter is a social network for
personalities, organizations; while LinkedIn
is for professionals.
Also, the optimal size for post images is 1200 x 630
pixels. While on twitter an image size is 552 x 368 pixels. A video
can be used as cover photo, which is
not the case on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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7. A good knowledge of social media policies
As far as each social media is unique, each social
network also has its terms of privacy.
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8. A knowledge on webmarketing skills
Communication on social media relies on advert. A good
Cm should have communication kills or webmarketing skills.
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By: Laurine Azebaze
Web content writer
