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How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

For several years, I’ve been using Reader Avatars (also called Reader Profiles or Personas) on my blogs – and I’ve found them very effective and helpful. To create your first reader avatar, you’ll need to spend some time thinking and writing about a type of reader that you’re either attempting to reach or who is already reading your blog.

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How to Build a Brand Community for your B2B Business

Oktopost

Facebook Groups. Facebook Groups offer convenient business pages which allow comments and questions from your members. LinkedIn Groups. LinkedIn Groups are a convenient and simple place to connect all of your B2B customers in one location. Here are the best ones to consider for B2B and why. Social Media . Other Platforms.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

They offer the standard fare including profiles, groups, message boards, multimedia, etc. Three of the most used platforms these days are vBulletin , phpBB and Simple Forums. phpBB and Simple Forums are free, but heavily used with lots of support options.

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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or a blog or forum, always a great idea to agree in advance on viral spiked activities. Even people leaving the group can create a rituals of goodbyes and “remember when…&# reminiscing. Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus. I photoshop my avatar to have a moustache -. -

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Measuring Engagement

Proactive Report

Groups (create / join / total number of groups / group activity). update avatar, bio, links, email, customisation, etc). Social media sharing / participation (activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, relevant design forums, blogs etc). Forward to a friend. Invite / Refer (a friend).

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Tactical Tips for Building an Online Community

ProBlogger

With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use to keep members informed, active and increasing in number. Here’s how we did it.

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Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup

Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth The Business of Social Media, Online Communities and Social Networks About Speaking 2008 Speaking 2010 Speaking 2009 Press Testimonials Rules Courses Brisbane Social Media Courses Facebook Twitter for Business course Hong Kong Social Media Courses How To Blog for Business Course Melbourne Social Media Course Singapore Social Media Courses (..)

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