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10 Inspiring Examples of Amazing Brand Communities

Social Media Strategies Summit

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. Nine in ten consumers read reviews before making a purchase, so building review functionality into your community makes sense.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. How to Manage Successful Social Media Promotions (Mashable): How can you get feedback from social channels to offer exclusive deals to your followers on social media communities?

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Alice is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and co-author of the book Let’s Panic About Babies (due out in March 2011). She is co-authoring a Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies book scheduled to be released in March 2011, and is a regular author at Social Media Examiner. Follow her @aliventures on Twitter.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

A prediction about the future of blogging; a platform actively used by over 181 million people (Nielsen data for October 2011). A former writer shared some interesting insights with Capital New York : “What we were doing was not journalism. The community choose the ‘news’, and that just what the community want to see.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge. At the end of the day, I hardly used my badge. At the end of the day, I hardly used my badge. Largely, it didn’t happen. May go badgeless next year.