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WordPress vs Drupal: Which CMS is Right for Your Site?

Idaconcpts

Two of the most popular packages are WordPress and Drupal. According to Drupal’s own statistics, over a million websites run this CMS package. Even more interesting, Drupal is preferred by sites that have high traffic numbers. Drupal, released in 2001, is like the Linux of CMSes. Read on to find out why.

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Support communities—forum sites, wikis or any venues that include user-generated content—are surprisingly self-sufficient. 3dcart Software Forums : As one of the leading shopping cart software platforms on the market, 3dcart prides itself on customer support. It’s Worked Before. Take a look at some strong examples of community support.

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Use Forums to Boost Your Blog’s Value

ProBlogger

Consider the potential of integrating forums into your website. Working with an online community development expert, Heather integrated a Q&A forum into her website. How forums add value. Yet with forums, you gain a source of new content that won’t require much day-to-day commitment on your end. It worked for Dooce.

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Leverage Multi-Social Media Platforms to Tell Stories

Direct Marketing Observations

So let’s think through that quickly about the multiple platforms that you, me, and your organization can now use to convey your key message themes: Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Forums, Websites, QR Codes, Group Buying sites, and LBS( location based sites)-to name but a few. Rich stories.

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5 Things You Can’t Blog Successfully Without

Writtent Blog

Open source content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are good options. Are you guest posting, commenting on other blogs, and getting involved in forum discussions? Offering a variety of themes, plugins, extensions, etc., People need to find you, which requires ongoing promotion.

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Drupal , Joomla , and LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python are also mentioned as examples of donation social economies. Pligg donation drives – I donated a few bucks to the PHPBB bulletin board (creating a forum plugin) drive they had.

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8 Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups

Kikolani

Otherwise, you can include the links above, but do not make them live – this way people have to cut and paste into a new window, which makes sure that the referrer to the network is not always the blog group or forum URL. Forums such as vBulletin (paid), Simple Machines (free), phpBB (free). Member Promotion. File Sharing.