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Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards

Kikolani

Today’s companies are quickly recognizing the power that social media tools such as forums and message boards can have for finding new customers and spreading the word about products and services. Among these social media platforms, forums and message boards are the most popular for discussing products and services.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

With more than 90% of companies now using social media to find employees and 82% having a Facebook page , there’s no question that business use of social media has become commonplace. If not, or to supplement the results from those paid tools, do some manual research using free tools like AllTop , Technorati and Google Blog Search.

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Best Practices for Using Social Media Listening to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social listening can cover the whole of the web, often focusing on sites like blogs and forums alongside social media. Forums and messaging boards devoted to the hobby were also awash with people discussing migraine treatments. As you can likely imagine, monitoring the entire internet is no easy task. The result?

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How to Develop a Social Media Policy for Employees in 2020 and Beyond

Oktopost

Use of company social accounts. Social media policy found its origins in the early 2000s as a “blog policy”, little more than a warning of what employees could and couldn’t post on message boards and blogs. This also includes definitions and directions like: That the official company accounts are.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over. Blogging Hands down, WordPress is THE blogging solution. They offer the standard fare including profiles, groups, message boards, multimedia, etc.

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Manage Your Online Reputation in Multiple Languages

Idaconcpts

Don’t forget to include blogs – now major social spaces – in the search. Monitor Message Boards. You can use services such as BoardReader.com, ForumFind.com, Big-Boards.com, BoardTracker.com, iVillage, Yahoo Message Boards, and MSN Money to monitor message board conversations.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back. Although I don’t post very much at all these days, I still read the threads on Twolvescentral.com (Star Tribune kind of killed the boards) on my iPhone every day. The Twitter background includes zero evidence of any other outpost.