One Digg home page post may bring ten’s of thousands of visitors to your site, but the main prize is the all important backlinks created when other bloggers review your post. Mixx is a new social voting site that looks like it will grow into a valuable community with lots of potential. Today I would like to address the similarities of how social media marketing is like a fishing tournament with an emphasis on the social voting sites. Many of you already know that I am somewhat of a fishing fanatic. Everything I do has some relation to catching the fish of my dreams! MORE >>

Simple Framework to Measure the Effectiveness of Social Media Programs » 18 Social Media Use Cases: Conversation, Campaign and Community Welcome to the Gauravonomics Blog for Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists ! Community: Bringing together influencers and evangelists on a social platform hosted by the brand on a long-term basis. Out of these six steps, we can structure three — conversation, campaign and community — as standalone social media programs. Community-based social media programs can relate to – 1. Innovation: Ideation community. MORE >>

This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book. Community: American Library Association. Your community is not your database. Community unlocks more useful data. In 2007 the Library Society of the World (LSW) was created as a reaction to ALA’s institutional characteristics. Facebook. MORE >>

Gauravonomics Blog For Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists How To Organize and Energize Your Evangelists Blog Speaking Writing Bio Media Subscribe Slideshare Twitter LinkedIn Facebook IdeaSliver Labs Tumblr « Why the Japanese Prefer Visual Thinking How to Scale Real-time Plus Face-time » Social Networks and Communities Can Be Content-Centric or People-Centric Welcome to the Gauravonomics Blog for Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists ! Gautam Ghosh has written an interesting post on how social media can be about content or community. What do you think? Lets talk. MORE >>

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Business , Marketing , Social Media > A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2009 Share After years of trial and error and months of writing, The New Community Rules ( O’Reilly link | Amazon link ) has been released, and I wanted to dive into some of the concepts I discuss in the book, many of which I hope to explore in depth in future blog posts. MORE >>