Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. Every thread has an OP (original poster) who started it. Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. Reddit is all about fostering community by encouraging users (a.k.a.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. I just think that the *active* cruise community is definitely a bit disappointed.

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ProBlogger

JULY 29, 2011

They come across as unselfish “community bloggers.&# They are not guest posters, they are the commentators. That link is from a 2005 ProBlogger article and is a fascinating read … a little dated, but still good). Darren gave a great example of the magic of marketing in this article. The Commentator.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 31, 2012

Are you in marketing or communications? I’m in a little tiny unit now called “Strategic Issues and Community Affairs.” We were talking about blogging earlier and B2B companies and things of that nature, less classic examples of blogging. We married the alabamapowernews.com URL to our Posterous site.

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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 29, 2008

To me, an outside observer, they have treated it as a sales platform though positioned it as a community forum. We just don’t know who owns the site, who runs the site, or who this poster is. Yet here is how the local affiliate site defines its service on the community site, when talking to the users: WOMF is about you.

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

TMZ, for example, was a robot hobby site up until December 2005 when it started to cover celebrity gossip as it still does to this day. Engadget and TechCrunch, for example, don’t leave much to the imagination about what their site covers. Ideally, pick something that is easy to remember and relevant to your niche.

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