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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Designating a community manager to monitor activity is a necessity, but that doesn’t mean your manager has to be involved in every conversation. To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB. And the more you work on getting members to engage, the more productive they become.

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5 Things You Can’t Blog Successfully Without

Writtent Blog

Open source content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are good options. Do you have active profiles on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+? Offering a variety of themes, plugins, extensions, etc., Is it useful and interesting enough to prompt your readers to share it?

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

Open Source Matters , Inc. the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. reached 15 million downloads,&# said Elin Waring, President of Open Source Maters, part of the Joomla! About Open Source Matters, Inc.

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A Brief History of the Evolution of Social Technology

Social Media Marketing

Instead, it takes place while on the go, in transit, at the moment of opting to make a buying decision and also when actively pursuing business opportunities. These devices have the power to interpret brainwave activity and help shape the social media experience accordingly. Photo credit: Kaptain Kobold (Flickr).

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Xtees.com - A Unique t-shirt selling hub

The Marketing Blog

22 am Xtees.com – A Unique t-shirt selling hub Jump to Comments Last week was quite interesting as I spent most of my time fiddling around with testing and installation of Drupal on local network. Home About In the Media Services & Tools for Bloggers OSSCamp Summer Edition June 18, 2008.3:22

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Open Source is a feature, not a benefit

The Way of the Web

Open source is a wonderful thing. We wouldn’t have GNU Linux, Ubuntu, Apache, Drupal, and we’d all be using Internet Explorer without the option to switch to Firefox or Chrome. There’s a painful truth here for developers currently flocking to the latest cool open source project on Github.

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Solving the Content Management System Standoff: Drupal, Joomla or WordPress?

ProBlogger

Similarly, the same approach should be taken when it comes to choosing the best open-source content management system (CMS). Of the three open-source choices, each one has its own advantages, and making the right choice will be a crucial step in creating a dependable website that delivers an engaging user experience..

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