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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.

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Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 for 2012

Sherrilynne Starkie

Please also feel free to leave a comment to suggest other profiles you think should be included. Ottawa's top tweeters for 2012. So readers, please feel free to let us know if you agree with Grader’s assessment of Ottawa’s Twitter Elite and if not vote on who you think should be included.

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2012 Is The Year of Visual Communication

Mindjumpers

Now, more than ever before, technology has made it easier to take part in visual storytelling with online communities. People’s Facebook News Feeds are crowded with friends’ status updates, events, comments and Page posts. A picture says more than a thousand words”.

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Case Study: Blogger Outreach for Oxfam America’s International Women’s Day 2012 Campaign

Waxing UnLyrical

One of the most fun projects I’ve worked on recently was Oxfam America’s (OA) International Women’s Day (IWD) 2012 campaign. write their own blog post to promote IWD 2012. The eCard initiative was new for 2012, so there wasn’t a benchmark, say for 2011, to set goals against. The project.

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How to Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, 2012 Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I am not alone in not being pleased with the new way that comments on pages from non-admins are marginalized from the main content of the page, positioned well below the fold in the right column under the heading “Recent Posts by Others on [page name].” ” And there’s no other option. Like this post?

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Thank You to 1,183 Commentators in 2011

Ari Herzog

Who could have predicted that 1,183 distinct names wrote comments here over the past 12 months? Many names belong to the same person, such as writing “John” on some comments and “John Smith” on others, but each name represents a person who was voluntarily inspired to take moments out of their day and share thoughts. [.]

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6 Great Conferences to Attend Before the End of 2012

Convince & Convert

This list is of some of the best conferences still to come in 2012 that are offering amazing speakers in the business and social media marketing industries. May 24, 2012, Columbus, Ohio. June 5-7, 2012, New York, NY. June 28-July 1, 2012, San Francisco, CA. The 2012 event is in the U.S. Ohio Growth Summit.