Community. guest blogger. online communities. I’m the first-ever guest blogger for the Wikinomics Blog , and will be writing a four-part series over the next several weeks. to give Entrepreneurs and Top Management, Human Resource management, and Commercial and Marketing Directors a look at how to increase efficiency, transparency, employee engagement, and conversational interaction with customers, business partners, and the community at large. About. Services. Contact. Archives. 21 days of wiki adoption. 9rules. adsense. advertising. analysis. Apple. MORE >>

Today, thirty years later we are in the midst of a new media revolution where norms and “best practices&# have been dictated by an echo chamber, mostly by top tier bloggers, that don’t necessarily understand the medium or deserve the ability to dictate best practices. Funny, those same attributed used to be associated with bloggers. Enter the ROI expert meme, unfortunately, that doesn’t equate to doing it. It involves people (plural), not individuals stroking their greatness with their fabulous ideas or by playing the top ten community song. crowd. MORE >>

However, in the era of social media, there are new tools and philosophies to more effectively listen and engage with customers and cultivate a more significant community, enhance your brand, build relationships, and hopefully create evangelists along the way. Brogan offers some thoughts based on a question he received about guidelines, a toolbox, and how to grow a community. The Art of Community , Jono Bacon. PDF) Bacon is the Community Manager for Ubuntu, one of the largest open source software projects. And it’s getting harder to keep up. Content , Cory Doctorow. MORE >>

Carnival - A great way to build community and traffic around a topic. Meme - These are more organic than the old "game-of-tag' type of posts. Frankly, you don't need permission to carry on a meme, just link back to the motivation for your carry-on work. Pictorial - Remember Perceptions of Bloggers ? There are probably more (and chime in with your favorites), but here are 64 different types of business blog posts you can use to keep your blog, your writing, and your imagination fresh: Acronyms - Even if you don't like acronyms, know that most readers do like them. MORE >>

Altitude Branding : Amber Naslund is a social media and marketing type, and exercises her social media chops daily as the Director of Community for Radian6. He works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging Web and mobile technologies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, Web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners. Liz Strauss at Successful Blog : Liz Strauss is a social Web strategist and community builder. MORE >>