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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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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

. ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel. The only other place where Facebook scores over Twitter is on the Disqus platform but there also it is a close fight b/w the two. In that poll there were 5000 + votes with the community voting in favor of Facebook.

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Seek out communities that address the needs that your company also addresses. Let the community know who you are. Introduce yourself, engage in the community, and let them learn about your brand. From looking at the software development world: an open source product can benefit from ongoing enhanced security.

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4 WordPress Alternatives: the What, Where, and Why

ProBlogger

Habari is a secure blogging platform designed from the ground up with the current and future needs of the blogging community firmly in mind. It’s also designed to be open and transparent, using modern software development techniques in its design. Disqus integration for commenting. open source and completely free to use.

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My Gov 2.0 Heroes

Social Media Strategery

community, the people who have helped me in my career, the people who made me believe that openness, transparency, and collaboration in government could be a reality. Heroes: Don Burke/Sean Dennehy December 2006 – that’s when I read “ Open-Source Spying &# by Clive Thompson. So, thank you to my Gov 2.0

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

For instance, open source software and the Freemium model are allowing for a more organic, bottom-up adoption of many applications and technologies. Alternatively, an organization may use the open source LAMP stack and OpenOffice and save a great deal on software licenses. Enterprise 1.0 was very much top-down.

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Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside

Social Media Strategery

and social media communities have been telling our bosses and clients for years now? The social media community seems to have realized the value these outsider perspectives can bring – just last year I attended conferences featuring Jermaine Dupri , Brooke Burke , and Jalen Rose. Sound familiar? discussion. Or Tim O’Reilly.

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