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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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5 Steps To A Professional Grade Blog On A Budget

Jason Yormark

Get yourself a shared hosting account. Having access to your own web hosting is very empowering as it gives you not only the ability to launch your own custom blog, but the power to launch practically as many other blogs/websites you would ever want. Steps for this vary depending on your choice of hosting and domain registrar.

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My 9 Favorite Wordpress Social Media Plugins | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

What really makes the platform as successful as it is, are the thousands of themes and plugins that the WordPress community contributes. These add ons turn what essentially is a blogging platform, into just about any type of site you want from community to content management systems to storefronts. It truly is amazing.

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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

Much to their dismay, Marc and Jason have invited me to host the tweetchat this week. blog comments powered by Disqus Connect About Adam Adam is a partner at the digital agency Rosetta, leading the Social Media practice. This post was mentioned on Twitter by prblogs, twitips MV.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

It doesn’t require your own hosting and domain name and you can log in by using your Google account. In that way it is more or less easy to connect with other bloggers on the Tumblr platform, but it can also be a downside that it is a closed community with no external comment options. It’s free and easy.

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HOW TO: Build your own link shortener | Shuaism

Josh S Peters

ink shorteners are very prevalent in today’s online communities. Set the proper Cname with your domain host and point it to partner.adjix.com 4. Set the proper Cname with your domain host and point it to partner.adjix.com 4. Wait 24-48 hours for the dns to update everywhere 5. Sign up for a free Adjix account.

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44 Powerful Marketing Tools for Facebook Ads, Websites, CRM and More

Jon Loomer

The host is also able to control whether customers are able to reschedule or cancel — which I definitely don’t want to allow (and I couldn’t control previously). I’ve been using ShortStack for nearly all of my four years, but previously it was to manage and host my Facebook tabs. It integrates with Zapier.

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