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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maintaining traditional channels like phone, email and live chat support are a must—but a solid support community can cut that burden drastically, saving you time and money. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support. It’s Worked Before.

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12 of the Best Free Stock Video Websites for Great Footage

Hootsuite

Videvo offers thousands of free stock video footage as well as motion graphics, music and sound effects created by their community of users. However, you can also buy credits that will allow you to use footage without attribution. If you feel so inclined, they welcome you to buy them a beer or give them a shoutout on your website.).

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5 Things I’ve Learned from Running BizSugar

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

BizSugar is built on Pligg, an open source content management system. Work on Building a Community. A community does not build itself. Many entrepreneurs and companies will launch a community site only to be disappointed six months later when nothing much is happening on it—when it’s a ghost town.

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How To Start A Blog For Your Small Business

Buffer Social

Sharing this content will not only attract more customers, but it can also open a dialogue with your existing followers, creating a stronger online community. Individuals who are building in public have seen many positive returns, like finding community and gaining brand exposure.

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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. & every month, subscribers are kept abreast with the latest offers through monthly catalogue.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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Open Source is a feature, not a benefit

The Way of the Web

Open source is a wonderful thing. But reading Matthew Ingram’s post last week about the lack of adoption for an open Twitter alternative highlighted the key reason why so few open source projects become mainstream success stories at the level of WordPress or Firefox.