Laurel Papworth

APRIL 13, 2010

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Two, how can Twitter make money?

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a great discount code for November, and life on Facebook on kikolani.com. How to get your community to build links for you – ways to motivate your community to link to you with badges, leaderboards, and more. The Resources Mashup.

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Social Media Network Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2010

As a result, those companies that use the strongest social CRM integrations should increase revenue; expand market share; improve their corporate image and, maybe, even fine-tune product development to offer items with the most wished-for features or capabilities.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Comments are the life of your blogging community. I always think it’s better to have an out-of-the-box template that is clean vs. a “unique” design that is out of date, cluttered, or otherwise distracting from the main feature of the blog – the content. Don’t spam blogs or forums just to get links.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. And I get some really great insight from the community on LinkedIn.

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 31, 2010

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? To accomplish this, companies should create customer-focused online communities with well-established components like blogs, forums, chats and wikis. Hi Folks, do you work as an Online Community Manager?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. Use forums. Here are 99 ways, from giveaways to community building to media connections to offering discounts and so much more. Community Management. How many of these new tactics have you adopted? Add a new twist!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you! Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. The ‘El Farol’ Problem in Social News : Muhammad Saleem explains that the community is happy when social news submissions occur in moderation.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

The community choose the ‘news’, and that just what the community want to see. She sent Andrea an email saying how shocked and delighted she was to be featured, attaching a photo (right) of herself and her children holding the newspaper to go with it. After all, the big guys are doing something.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 9, 2010

If you move that into personal attacks – continually identifying e.g. pointing the finger and naming a person – you will find that you create a negative community with negative comments and a negative tone. People can also be bullied online by groups of people such as class groups or collective members of an online community.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Use social networks respectfully to share the best of your content, in a community-appropriate setting. Don’t forget places like YahooGroups, Craigslist, and online forums. Make it easy for your community to reach you.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

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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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

5 Ways That Sales People Can Benefit From Using Social Media by OPEN Forum. 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. It’s a fad.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. Both companies (as well as a second tier of contenders) are working on new features and ramping up their business development teams. At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge. May go badgeless next year.

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