Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. Be sure to build trust by adding value to the community consistently over time. Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials 12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program YESTERDAY 1. It’s important to claim your brand name across all the major social media platforms. Please share your experiences! MORE >>

When I talk to my family, friends, colleagues or community and ask them how they’re doing, usually they respond with some variation on being too busy, tired and in need of a vacation. If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. This is because we have been trained to run as hard as possible to stay competitive. For many of us, we live our lives online which exacerbates this because of the never ending firehouse of information and feeling that we need to keep up. MORE >>

Step 3 – Get your foot in the door (11 weeks out) The first thing I do is add all these blogs to a feed reader like Bloglines. You’ll want to process your feed reader at least once a day for 7-8 weeks. You can also add the blog feeds to a custom Google search engine. Offer the search engine as a resource to your community and search the engine for interesting posts. We’re willing to offer 50 free sign-up codes (valued at $27 each) to your readers during the week of our launch. The readers Im using are sapping my will to live! MORE >>

Online Community Strategist Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Home About Angela Contact Popular Speaking Media Press Tips Subscribe to feed HARO: A big-time community-building success story August 18, 2009 in HARO | Tags: HARO , Peter Shankman How does one guy come up with an idea to help others and turn that into an insane empire that continues to grow exponentially and receives rave reviews and word of mouth that most of us would die for? The man builds community every time he sends an email. Subscribe to feed Serious swagger! MORE >>

Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader. have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - Ive tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. Some of these may work with RSS readers from Newsgator, Bloglines and others but they are written with Google in mind.). The Core Philosophy: Google Reader is a database and a feed reader. Continually add tons of feeds in organized, methodical way. Annotate your data by connecting Reader to Gmail or Blogger. Blog RSS Feed. Comment Feed. MORE >>