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Do John Naisbitt’s Megatrend predictions still hold true for 2018?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In 2006 a time when social media was just starting to take off, I wrote a summary list of his predictions, (and provided my feedback on each point). The move away from national economies towards a global one forcing the adjustment to a world of interdependent communities. Care in the community, but does it work?) It still is!).

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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The New Community Rules talks about the important role social media has begun playing in our lives. We’ve seen that individuals nowadays don’t sift through their Yellow Pages to find a local business (nor do many people even own such a big book any longer); they turn to the Internet for help. The best part?

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9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog

ProBlogger

The post 9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. But first – today I’d like to talk about WHY community and interaction on a blog is so important. When I launched dPS in 2006, I launched it without comments being activated on the blog. Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. Talk Like A Pirate Day and Online Community.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities. There is no song book. Movements tend to be distributed. Activity can be undisciplined.

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The Social-Shake-Up: A New Breed of Marketer is Coming

Buzz Marketing for Technology

All the tools of the trade – text analytics, social media analysis, Website personalization, community analytics, computational advertising and online testing, among other things – were used for re-elect the President of the United States. Like it or not, what Andrew McAfee predicted in 2006 in his book, Enterprise 2.0,

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