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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. Start a community group on Facebook or Ning or MySpace or LinkedIn around the space where your customer does business. Don’t NOT go.

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I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

Convince & Convert

Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Though one should write with robots in mind, this is still a human network, so write as if you want someone to actually read your profile. Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Taking advantage not only connecting with people but building relationships with them before selling. I think you can learn something from aggressively working at relationship building – doing it often, connecting with people who sync with you rather than your company. Selling should not even be a big part of the picture.

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

Convince & Convert

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

We see blogging both as community building and as a function of being a web based business. One question for you though — are these categories mutually exclusive? JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right? JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right?

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. Then, everyone will go to his/her respective home(s) on the web. You may have more than one. But PLURK?

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