It should give you a great overview about both the strategy and the process of creating an online community from scratch. The Online Community Basics. Primer About Successful Online Communities. The 11 Fundamental Laws of Online Communities. The Four Tenets Of Professional Community Managers. Building An Online Community: How You Start With 0 Members. How Do You Build An Online Community? Contrary Truths About Online Communities. Don’t Start A Community For Any Of These Reasons. Basics Community Building Principles. Content. MORE >>

The popularity of Instagram is clear, and if you are inclined to snap photos and share them with your friends and customers on social networks you can make your business more social and build a powerful sharing community on Instagram quickly. So is travel. Building community while running a contest can be challenging, and sometimes fool-hardy. Why does Instagram work so well? Because we humans are most inspired by visuals. How to use Instagram to grow your visibility. Learn from some successful Instagram campaigns. The win. Comodo . Then it’s just fun. The win. MORE >>

Extend Your Networking Beyond Events. Every year I attend many conventions, expos, and events – sometimes to stay current in my profession, but more often because I am a speaker at the event. What’s the number one reason for attending these events? This is why I’ve always wondered why event planners do not arrange a mechanism to connect us so we can make the most of our downtime in airports – or on our way to the convention. No responses yet, but I’ll add an update as the event in late July gets closer. This Was My Idea! MORE >>

It’s actually the place where the majority of the discussion on this blog finds it’s actualisation – putting the ideas and insights shared here into practice at our Conference and also our community building. It superseded our event in February in every way (which was the best event I’d ever run and went down very well ), but the biggest success was that this event was a HUGE risk on a few fronts. Considering my post on “ Why Social Events Aren’t Social “, I had to swallow my own medicine and not allow ego to slip in. MORE >>

Last year saw 600+ developers submitted their apps, earning the MPA a reputation as a “the point of reference for the startup and developer community.&#. These lucky entrepreneurs and developers will have the opportunity to showcase their app in a 3-minute pitch during the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, press and influential bloggers. am proud to support this (and all upcoming events organized by Rudy DeWaele and his mtrends team) as a premiere media partner. AppCircus@Apps Marathon Brussels – Samsonite Travel Miles. MORE >>