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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

Hootsuite

Reddit is a social network with a forum-style discussion structure. Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. Subreddits have their own URL, for example the Star Wars subreddit can be found at www.reddit.com/r/StarWars. Every thread has an OP (original poster) who started it.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

The role of a CM, as we know it today, really started in 2005 , when the role was akin to “The Forum Moderator.” For example, CMs (both internal and external) may collaborate with Customer Service, Marketing, Communications, R&D, Digital, eCommerce teams. That people-first mentality seeps into everything a CM does.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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6 Common Mistakes in Online Community Development

Convince & Convert

Take for example community development professional Ben Brown. In 2005, CNET bought Consumating. LitReactor is now a real community, with active forums; online classes that fill up; tons of editorial content; and a thriving space for writers to workshop their own material with other writers.

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Trevor Cook is just one example of a blogger who writes notes from all of the conference sessions he attends (including his reflections on our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum ) for his own sake, making his blog a repository for personal reference, by the by creating something that others can find useful. December 2005 (12).

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Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

Buzz Marketing for Technology

intellectual property is contained in the messages and attachments they send through their e-mail systems (source: Message Therapy, CIO Magazine, January, 2005). For example, MySpace grew by 609% in one year, from just under 3.5 million members in October 2004 to over 24 million in 2005. Intranet Global Forum. Multimedia.