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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Blogging Hands down, WordPress is THE blogging solution. In addition, WordPress’ sister offerings, BBpress and Buddypress offer message board and social network features as well that all integrate well with each other. They offer the standard fare including profiles, groups, message boards, multimedia, etc.

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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. If you have a photo gallery, it should be everywhere.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. link] Michelle Johnson Influencers- [link] [link] Chris Syme Good blog post by Jay Baer's on Finding Influential Customers. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. Had it been something weird like paid positive blog posts like a few companies had started doing, it would be a different story.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus. I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus.

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Social Media in Action: Twitter and Emergency Response | Social.

Social Media Strategery

Think about the potential impact that Twitter, blogs, and other social media could have on emergency response efforts. For more information on this topic, refer to these two excellent blogs, who also had an opinion on the power of Twitter. Are there others? What other benefits do you see? What obstacles exist? How do you manage that?

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The 5 C's of nurturing the Human Element in Social Media

Josh S Peters

Don’t force them to visit your Facebook page when they hang out on a forum or message board. These should all make sense to you, but if they don’t then spend some time on FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or your favorite message board and try reaching out to someone you don’t know.