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Start Your Community With Role Models, Not Influencers

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They were role models who would care for the community as if it were their own. "In "In Pinterest’s early days, Silbermann gave out his cell-phone number, attended blogger meet-ups, and personally composed weekly emails that were sent out to Pinterest’s tiny, but growing, community. "It’s

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An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA's Evolution of Security.

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Development Social Media An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog Tue, Mar 10, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0 My questions are underlined and bolded below – Blogger Bob’s responses are found just below each question. We are going to be switching from Blogger to WordPress. Government 2.0

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More Than Words: How to Really Redefine the Term “Public Relations”

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Chartered in 1947, PRSA is the world’s largest and foremost organization of public relations professionals and boasts a community of more than 21,000 members across the U.S. I will stop being a yes-man for my clients and actually provide the expert communications counsel I’m (hopefully) being paid to provide.

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

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Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs? Notice anything?

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Resilient and Engaged, DHS Charts a Path Forward | Social Media.

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Today, I had the pleasure of participating in a Department of Homeland Security Blogger Round Table—an extension of the National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review occurring online right now. Through this process, a community has been developed and needs to be cultivated. events around DC. third) phase of the process?

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Knock Down the Social Media Dominos

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In the social media community, Chris is a big domino, or as Malcom Gladwell put it in his book, the Tipping Point, a “ connector.&# By reaching Chris, you’re not reaching just one person, but a whole army of people who are following him. Reaching out to an influential blogger is like knocking down that first domino.

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Let Luck Be a Lady: Attending blogworld 2008

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I hope to use this as my home base for reporting back my thoughts on the sessions, on the speakers, and on what I learn from my fellow bloggers. I’m particularly excited to meet some of the notable bloggers that I’ve got on my blogroll as well as meeting some other new and upcoming bloggers too. Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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