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Become a Fearless Online Community Leader

The Realtime Report

Become a Fearless Online Community Leader. Online communities are powerhouses of collaboration that demand fearless leaders to succeed. The best social managers build constituencies with purpose and a strategy for growth. Here is how to become an effective online community leader. By Bruce Fikowski. Leadership.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

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65 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Write truly informative and useful articles related to your niche, and publish them on WikiPedia. Make flyers with a catchy title and a description of your blog, and post them on bulletin boards in the entrance to supermarkets and other community buildings. Use Hi5 to build a page for your blog and create a community around it.

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You actually need to involve yourself in the blog’s community, commenting and showing that at the minimum, you have a long term invested interest in the blog’s success, and not only when it’s beneficial for you. Social media is all about community, and that community exists whether you need them or not.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. After all, the full disclosure is that I am the community and marketing director of Mashable.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. You can also not use the tools correctly or not behave appropriately within communities around the tools and market poorly.

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Five models of content curation

SocialFish

Taking multiple points of view on a particular issue and sharing it in a single location would be one example of this type of behaviour – and could be used to describe the sort of activity that takes place every day on Wikipedia. Curation for community building, I suppose. …anything else you can think of?

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