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Critical thinking is an increasingly important skill that has been overlooked by many as information becomes more accessible and superfluous. 
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Ally Greer, a social media and community manager for the content curation and publishing hub Scoop.it, offers advice to fellow professionals in the field.
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Have you ever noticed that, when we’re younger, school and learning seem like a chore, and yet when we’re older, we wish we could just spend all of our time consuming information and advancing our knowledge?
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 10:51 PM
Ally wrote a great article regarding how many of us start to grow into learning and knowledge consumption as we get older.
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Today is Community Manager Appreciation Day, and I find myself reflecting on all of the lucky occurrences that helped get me to where I am. From Penn State to Paris, and now, San Francisco, it’s been quite a journey.
Ursula O'Reilly Traynor 's comment,
August 28, 2013 3:35 AM
So glad you came to scoopit Ally! I won't be the only one to appreciate all you do and always with a winning smile!
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Ally Greer is the community manager at Scoop.it, the content curation platform allowing professionals to share ideas that matter to them. Ally has been a part of the Scoop.it team for a year and a half and is currently based in ...
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By Ally Greer: There are such things as stupid questions. Just kidding, there aren’t. (Got your attention, though, right?) I don’t care how many times we were told this growing up – I always find myself thinking, “Don’t ask that, that’s dumb. You should know that.” Well, guess what? Like I talked about in my last post, so many people of today’s world are in a perpetual state of learning. There is always something that seems obvious to one person that another person might not have ever thought about. The whole reason that conversing with others can be so amazing is because everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn. Why we view this as being stupid and not as an opportunity to extract new information is beyond me. Don’t be afraid to keep asking.
Mindy M Walker's curator insight,
June 20, 2013 3:46 PM
Worth going through this post. If you don't know - learn - how to ask questions, you won't keep learning. Agreed - there are no stupid questions.
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I recently partook in a discussion among some fellow community managers on the best ways to learn about the industry and how to train its future generations. When the conversation reached the point where we all shared the “training” we went through ourselves, the answers began getting interesting.
“I studied marketing in college.” “I studied communications and the art of rhetoric.” “The job I’ve had that contributed most to the development of my community management skills was being a community manager.” “My social life and interactions with others have been one of the biggest contributors to my professional skill set.” It’s no secret that there just isn’t a degree to be earned in social media or community management. In fact, I graduated college one short year ago, and never even knew that this extensive professional field existed until I was thrown into it.
The reality is, this isn’t only the case for community management. It’s the case for SEO. It’s the case for entrepreneurship. It’s the case for social advertising and Internet marketing. We’re living in the transition phase from analog to digital; from broadcasting to social conversing.
How, then, can we find the proper education and training to become experts in these fields? Though there’s not one training program fit for everyone, there is one thing we can all do: learn how to learn.
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Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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I was always a bookworm. In fifth grade, I was one of the only students in my class to finish every last book on the Battle of the Books competition list.
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of listening to a fireside chat with Marc Benioff and Sir Richard Branson at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce X.
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Ally Greer is the commuinity manager for Scoop.it, the content curation publishing platform. She has been with the Scoop.it team for a year and a half and is currently located in San Francisco. Ally is passionate about ...
Ursula O'Reilly Traynor 's comment,
August 28, 2013 3:31 AM
Really useful Ally eg the bit about link placement ..thanks for sharing!
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Popular Content Doesn't Always Equal Good – Here's How It Could. Blogging. By Ally Greer, Published June 18, 2013. Be the first to comment! Share: Share: Popular Content Doesnt Always Equal Good Heres How It Could.
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According to a recent survey conducted by Econsultancy, 90% of respondents (1,300 marketing professionals) believe that content marketing will continue becoming increasingly important within the next year, but a surprisingly low 38% of them...
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Glenn Street isn't your average guy. His claim to fame is being the very first mascot in the National Hockey League, as well as one of the first mascots in professional sports.
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Ayantek, a full-service digital marketing firm offering innovative web, mobile, search, and social media solutions to some of New England's largest companies, has a vision that probably sounds pretty familiar to most marketing agencies.
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Dennis O'Connor was an early adopter before being an early adopter was cool. As an educator in the 1980s, he was always looking for new ways to bring emerging technologies into the classroom.
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When PR professional Jody MacPherson first started her personal Scoop.it page on politics, she had no idea that she would end up on TV.
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Elynn Fish started her career in the corporate business world. Before the dominance of social media, she was part of a think tank building internal digital communications platforms.
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This evening, we were happy to host the co-founder of the awesome social media tool BufferApp, Leo Widrich (@LeoWid), who shared five awesome lessons that he’s learned over the last two years of developing his very own content marketing...
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theclairbyrd's curator insight,
March 11, 2013 2:40 PM
We've had a great response talking to people about big ideas that are going to shape our future.
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My name is Ally Greer. I’m a marketer with expertise in content marketing and curation. You’ve probably never heard of me. With over 500 million users on Twitter, 175 million on LinkedIn, and over a billion on Facebook, you probably haven’t heard of most people on the Internet. The bad news is that this also means most of those people probably haven’t heard of you either. Via Guillaume Decugis
ben bernard's comment,
January 9, 2013 11:40 PM
thanks ! http://www.scoop.it/t/direct-marketing-services my newly made scoop.it :)
's comment January 27, 2013 10:26 PM
Inspiring article - thanks!
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Community Manager of the Day Ally Greer from Scoop.it shares her tips and insights of what being a community manager means. Via GwynethJones
Ally Greer's curator insight,
December 12, 2012 1:52 PM
Thanks to My Community Manager for featuring me in this awesome series!!
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.In this week’s edition of Scoop.it’s lean content meetup, we were honored to welcome the the Content & Community Director of UserVoice, Evan Hamilton...Ally Greer\'s insight:...In our last #leancontent meetup, UserVoice\'s Evan Hamilton ... Via Ricard Lloria
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Curated by Ally Greer
Marketing manager in tech/real estate. Consumer of information & pursuer of education. Former content & community director at Scoop.it
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