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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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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Word

SocialFish

Libre Office is open-sourced by its huge community that works on bringing useful updates and assets daily. That means that its source-code editable and can be changed for free. Its large community consistently works on improving it, making it stabler and more secure. Completely free and open-sourced.

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Battling burnout as a social media manager

Sprout Social

a leading technology company that provides enterprise open source solutions. Given the complex nature Red Hat’s offerings, the customer and community feedback Red Hat receives on social media every day is invaluable. Lean into your community. How social platforms are combating burnout.

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How To Start A Blog For Your Small Business

Buffer Social

Sharing this content will not only attract more customers, but it can also open a dialogue with your existing followers, creating a stronger online community. Individuals who are building in public have seen many positive returns, like finding community and gaining brand exposure.

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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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What makes an effective knowledge worker? (Gurteen Knowledge)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

How does someone learn not to need praise for example and just how important an attribute is it? My Weblog Gurteen Knowledge Community. Knowledge Community. The Gurteen Knowledge Website. Will be interesting now to analyze them and pull them into some sort of structure and order. gurteen.com. Services I offer. My schedule.

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The Complete Guide to Using Stock Photos in Your Marketing

Buffer Social

For example, have you seen an image like the one below before? For example, when it comes to business-related photos, there’s no shortage of clichés. Here’s a great example from Priscilla Du Preez , where the subjects look like they’re actually having a great time: 2. Typical stock photo. Check Unsplash.