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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maintaining traditional channels like phone, email and live chat support are a must—but a solid support community can cut that burden drastically, saving you time and money. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support. It’s Worked Before.

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How to Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, 2012 Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post by Tim Ware, owner of HyperArts , a Web shop that specializes in WordPress and Drupal CMS, Facebook Tab development, and SEO. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Like this post?

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. Currency has no inherent value itself – only what we, the community, say it’s worth. Ripple Effect diagram showing that social media works opposite to traditional media.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Create your own niche online social network with ready to use blogs, RSS feeds, forums and more. Do you have a community on the ground to support an online community? Or would you be better served to set up a community inside another social network? News & RSS Feeds. How will you choose your feeds?

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Use Forums to Boost Your Blog’s Value

ProBlogger

I’ll answer that question with another one: do you think of your blog as a publishing platform with occasional interaction, or a full-blown community? Working with an online community development expert, Heather integrated a Q&A forum into her website. If you have a large content library powered by Drupal , you have options.

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

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Blog Comment Spammer Leaves Comment. Forgets to Spin the Content.

Bill Hartzer

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