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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

"We'll have our own Wikipedia!" Unfortunately, as many have already discovered and many more will continue to discover, successful communities are dependent on many variables, from the accessibility, speed, and reliability of the technology to your community managers. New Media Community of Practice.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Get a handbook of style and learn how to communicate with properly constructed sentences. Many people stay to themselves, failing to participate in the community and to build rapport with others in the same field. She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&#

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Facebook or LinkedIn) or other communities of practiceâ?? The investment these companies will make in blogs, social networks, and communities will â??stimulate stimulate peer-to-peer learning and ideation, as well as facilitate communities of practice in which organizations can leverage the collective knowledge of their employees."

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , 12 (2), article 16. From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. Zimmerman, A., Nathan Bos. Applied Physics Laboratory. Johns Hopkins.

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A Seismic Shift in Epistemology (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

Buzz Marketing for Technology

For example, in Wikipedia, “knowledge&# is constructed by negotiating compromises among various points of view. reflects a shift in leading-edge applications on the World Wide Web, a shift from the presentation of material by website providers to the active co-construction of resources by communities of contributors.

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Research-Driven Ideas for Social Data

Mindjumpers

Industries such as marketing now rely heavily on a new field of social data science to make sense of the large quantities of information about their brand community. Stable drop: reveals the evolution as new articles break off and form their own entity (the magic of Wikipedia stigmergy).

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