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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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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

She didn’t last long, as the community questioned her extreme statements and Jeremiah Owyang (a Forrester Analyst) contacted Exxon directly for comment. (I On the other hand, Whole Foods CEO really crossed the line by posting on stock message boards under an alias name , attempting to influence the stock price of an acquisition.

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Social Media in Action: Twitter and Emergency Response | Social.

Social Media Strategery

They had set up message boards, and people would go on there and say that they’re having a heart attack and (I guess) Kaiser was required to send an ambulance to respond. bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Are you trying to create community? Or someone said you should so your considering it. But where do you start? Well, its an often overlooked question.

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Beat Your Fear of Technology, and Grow Your Blog

ProBlogger

Is WordPress refusing to create space between lines no matter how many times you log in, log out, save? You can find classes in colleges and universities, at community learning centers and, of course, online. If it’s someone from your community, you can meet at your local library.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. SocialMention For more comprehensive social media searching, I use SocialMention , which indexes blogs, tweets, message board posts, and a lot more. WordPress The WordPress iPhone app is slick.

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche

Viper Chill

To find out where your audience is hiding, I recommend searching: Google : Try keyphrases such as “top blogs on [niche],&# “[niche] forum,&# “[niche] community&# Facebook : Search using the form on the top right of the site for keywords relating to your market.

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