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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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Client solves Ecommerce for WordPress via Open Source

The Way of the Web

I don’t often write about clients on my blog for various reasons, but I wanted to spread the word about Jigoshop, which is a great Ecommerce for WordPress solution that I’ve been working on for a couple of months now. The benefits of a true Open Source Ecommerce solution. So what makes Jigoshop so good?

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4 WordPress Alternatives: the What, Where, and Why

ProBlogger

As bloggers, we’re all familiar with WordPress, whether as a self-hosted setup, or via WordPress.com. If you do a Google search for “ blogging software ,” WordPress will likely be among the first results you’ll see. concerned WordPress is not meeting your needs. This guest post is by Matt Setter of MatthewSetter.com.

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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. Are you guest posting, commenting on other blogs, and getting involved in forum discussions? Interacting with your audience is the key to building a community. Offering a variety of themes, plugins, extensions, etc.,

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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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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Much of this stuff is standard across any kind of online community, and I don’t claim to be very original in any of this. Find out how they like to communicate - do they prefer email, discussion forums, or are they happy getting their hands dirty with a wiki? It is however easy to set up and open source.

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Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside

Social Media Strategery

and social media communities have been telling our bosses and clients for years now? The social media community seems to have realized the value these outsider perspectives can bring – just last year I attended conferences featuring Jermaine Dupri , Brooke Burke , and Jalen Rose. Sound familiar? discussion. Or Tim O’Reilly.

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