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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The social web has opened the communication floodgates. While most brands look to make a name for themselves on Facebook and Twitter, other businesses take a more introspective approach. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support.

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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, for example, all have features that allow people to buy directly. This could be customers, employees, surrounding communities, shareholders, policymakers and so on. They are experts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, SnapChat and more.

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How to Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, 2012 Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook restricts what a Page’s Cover Photo may contain. References to user interface elements, such as Like or Share, or any other Facebook site features. It’s all about creating a beautiful Facebook Page that effectively conveys the purpose and quality of your brand. Examples of poor use of the Profile Picture.

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Good Game: ABC TV Show and online communities

Laurel Papworth

Jeremy gets online and says it’s cos he’s not a woman he got sacked, the GoodGame crew go the forums and say it was their decision, the community get their knickers in a knot and start a petition , a Facebook goup and a website called SaveJunglist (his gamer handle or nickname). The Facebook group. How can you help?

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5 Things You Can’t Blog Successfully Without

Writtent Blog

Open source content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are good options. Do you have active profiles on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+? Interacting with your audience is the key to building a community. Offering a variety of themes, plugins, extensions, etc., Determination.

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Why Livefyre Is The Best Blog Comment System Evah

Waxing UnLyrical

in my opinion, than other comment systems that allow you to post your comments to, say, Facebook or Twitter? Assuming I’m signed in via Twitter (or Facebook, or both), Livefyre then pulls up a list of handles, and I simply select the one that I want to bring in. They truly believe in community. What makes Livefyre better.

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Live Blogging - OSS Camp Delhi 08-09 September 2007 @ Day 1

The Marketing Blog

It’s by Mir Nazim and is about Drupal and its best practices. Gud start he’s talking about using the CVS code and says don’t just download abruptly from drupal website. well that is one of the best examples of websites using Drupal. Excellent presentation mtv.co.uk

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