The document discusses analyzing a blog community to understand its characteristics over time. It recommends tracking metrics like the number of blogs, networking density, and blog distribution to evaluate if the community is relevant and influential. Comparing metrics to competitors can help identify new relevant blogs. Labels and values can configure parameters like subject area and blog source to analyze the community's distribution. The community module allows quick tracking of if the blog community is advertising or social network friendly.
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Understand Your Blog Community's Characteristics
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2. Empty community Community is strongly networked Focus on finding relevant blogs based on what audience you want to reach. Try to find >100 blogs and influential your blog(s) is in your community. Compare with your competitor's blog Communities are dynamic, allocate some time overtime to identify new relevant blogs.
3. At a glance, track the distribution accross parameters that suit your business need. Use label&value to configure those parameters. In this example, 2 labels with 3 values each: 1) Subject = PR, SEM, Marketing 2) Source = Agency, Indendent, Solution provider Quick Configuration Tool
4. Find out if your community is advertising friendly . Find out if your community is social network friendly .
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