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Lanyrd: Social Media Conferences & More

Jason Yormark

Lanyrd uses your Twitter account to effectively crowdsource conference information and it’s working. I’d love to see a more user friendly badge feature to give bloggers an easy way to implement dynamic content to their sites regarding their conference participation. Also Facebook integration would be a plus.

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Accept and embrace this fact now and your communities have a much better chance at succeeding. It doesn't work like that.

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The 12 Startups I’ve Invested In and Why

Convince & Convert

Captora.com CloudPeeps – Remote Community Management My newest investment, CloudPeeps (I think) is the right idea at the right time. You’ll see an example of those disclosure “badges” at the bottom of this post. It’s a game-changer for B2B. The firm still has its cmp.ly

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity SMM

It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. According to Tom Grant , Ph.D, You expand it.”

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Oli Gardner reveals key tactics for converting social media followers into buyers, from using a landing page with a clear call to action and offering “social proof&# through badges and widgets to optimizing post-conversion opportunities. You need help from the power users in that community.