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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Find relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. This is as simple as searching within “groups” on each social networking site for your primary keywords and recording the results. Note how many groups you find, how large the groups are, and how active they appear to be.

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LinkedIn Groups: How to Create, Join, or Manage Them

Hootsuite

If you’re the sort of person who likes to both work hard and play hard, LinkedIn groups are going to be right up your alley. While your LinkedIn page or profile is a place to get down to business, LinkedIn groups are a chance to (digitally) mix and mingle. What are LinkedIn groups? Then, toggle Display group on profile to off.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Actively pursue users, followers and engage in conversations, even if it doesn’t directly relate to your product or service. In addition, WordPress’ sister offerings, BBpress and Buddypress offer message board and social network features as well that all integrate well with each other. month option that is ad free.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Michael Dell spoke about the issue of proximity in an article in Forbes back in 2006: The first step was to add blogs and message boards in the hope that irate customers will talk to the company rather than gripe to the whole Internet. “I’d rather have that conversation in my living room than in somebody else’s.”

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Are You Keeping People Connected With Your Brand and Each Other?

Convince & Convert

From Janrain , a free guide to improve your conversion rates and your data quality. The Weight Watchers site features a Community section with message boards for support, etc. Brides set up bridal challenges, mommy groups set up challenges for each other, and the opportunities are endless. Listen Now.

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

it's no longer about pushing information out – it's about consumers generating conversations. They also used The Office TV show to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) and got a 60% conversion rate because of that program off of YouTube. Billy Ray Cyrus – tapped into a whole group of country music fans.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

This presents misunderstandings (at the least) and enlists your people beyond just the marketing and PR groups. These real conversations also produce some of your most loyal fans and greatest evangelists.&#. Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media).

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