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Open Community Case Study – GoPlow

SocialFish

This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book.

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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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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

And do the initial research. I guess their intention is to “corner the market” and cover just about every possible scenario that they could possibly put into the application. Just think. An attorney (or attorneys) got paid to write those 16,728 words. And edit it.

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Client solves Ecommerce for WordPress via Open Source

The Way of the Web

One reason is simply that it’s a really good product which I can easily recommend – as part of research I played around with the alternatives and I can honestly say that I’d already decided to use Jigoshop to power a couple of future projects before working with them. So what makes Jigoshop so good?

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Applying the Johari Window to as/w Product

The Marketing Blog

48 am Applying the Johari Window to a s/w Product Jump to Comments Reading a wonderful piece on Johari Window at psychcentral made me think about its application to a s/w product. Kinshuk is an individual, a fresh MBA working for as a community manager for an open-source consulting company. July 29, 2008.10:48

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Lisa Barone made a really good point last month when she said that her productivity went up as a result of respecting her time. The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. Sadly, it absolutely has.

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Entrepreneurial resources

The Marketing Blog

apps and products if I am convinced about their value aspect to me & my ecosystem. November 26, 2009.5:10 The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 layer and the nature of challenges being faced by organizations for its adoption. However, I still review some Web 2.0

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