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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Blogging Hands down, WordPress is THE blogging solution. 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. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. It’s you.

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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

It’s the stuff I’ve always wanted to write, and it’s the stuff I talk about when I speak at conferences and I blog about. They weren’t sure people would want to buy a book about community management. Jay: I like that quote, “You can’t schedule community.” How was it writing it?

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What is a brand community and how to build a successful one

Sprout Social

With this group, you can test new product mockups, ask about feature releases, share blog content, and collect general feedback for improvement. Choose a community platform. There are several different options when it comes to creating your brand community’s home base. Take Spotify’s community , for example.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? The guys installing your organization’s blogging software don’t realize that the “Add a Picture&# button doesn’t work because they don’t have blogs. platform haven’t even created profiles of themselves. initiatives.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Five Digital Channels For Word of Mouth Marketing

Mindjumpers

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. Next to the use of social network sites you can also use proprietary community platforms. Blogging and micro-blogging Blogs are social media hubs and at the same time destinations and sources of word of mouth marketing.

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