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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. Couple your email newsletter content with additional website content on a blog for improved commenting. Don’t fabricate this). Don’t NOT go.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 1: Hit The Big Three (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) It’s no secret that social networking is all the rage, so it doesn’t take a genius to point out that you need to start there. By far, Facebook , Twitter and Linked In are where I think most businesses should start their community building. Social Network Platforms 1.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of March 2011

SocialFish

The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments (TechCrunch). Real-Time Analytics For Social Plugins (Facebook Developer Blog). The State and Future of the Social Media Management System Space (Jeremiah Owyang). 29 social networks that have at least one million visitors per day (Royal Pingdom). Bitly Blog). Datalicious.

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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

Create Community Next you need to consider having a “controlled” community environment in your world. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site. A place that you can offer your customers/audience a place to communicate in addition to external channels. Just out of the chat.

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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

Deb: It’s hard, because we don’t want to spam people, and we don’t want to say, “Will you please comment on my blog, dammit?” Jay: I like that quote, “You can’t schedule community.” So many times now, it seems that Facebook in particular has become the de facto community platform.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. I think the same is true for the bevy of social tools. Social networking has hit a tipping point, but the channels will continue to ebb and flow.

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Five Digital Channels For Word of Mouth Marketing

Mindjumpers

In the area of e-mail marketing there are naturally all so-called SWYN tools: send-to-a-friend modules, social sharing tools etc. If you measure the social interaction with your e-mails properly, you will be able to identify influencers easily. Next to the use of social network sites you can also use proprietary community platforms.

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