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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

In addition, WordPress’ sister offerings, BBpress and Buddypress offer message board and social network features as well that all integrate well with each other. Ning – Ning has certainly established itself as the leader in custom, web based, out of the box social network sites. Social Network Platforms 1.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

A visit to the main T-Wolves Web site finds absolutely none of the humility and forthrightness that made the original ad so compelling. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site. At a minimum.

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

Convince & Convert

I do this only occasionally, however, as my friends/followers on each site don’t have much overlap. Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus. I implement bit.ly

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

Convince & Convert

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Good stuff.

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How to Become a Niche Rockstar: The Guide

Viper Chill

The huge growth of online sites like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, which have the potential to give anyone a large audience are a great example of this in action. Hundreds of different industries regularly reference green blogs in news sites, blogs and forums. Three of the five sites I looked at had in excess of 280,000 backlinks.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They might not be the lifeblood of your site, but they’re definitely driving more users to the network, which we hope actually helps your bottom line. Reply Jonathan Evans April 28, 2010 at 2:57 pm Good interaction here on your site. fan pages)? fan pages)? Reply Ruben Quinones April 28, 2010 at 11:12 am Tamar, right on point!

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