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Leverage Multi-Social Media Platforms to Tell Stories

Direct Marketing Observations

The emergence of transmedia storytelling over the past decade has lead to or created some unique opportunities in social media. Transmedia, according to Henry Jenkins a professor at USC is “the art of conveying messages themes or storylines to mass audiences through the artful and well planned use of multiple media platforms”.

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The social web has opened the communication floodgates. Can’t a strong social media initiative start inside the walls of your website? Support communities—forum sites, wikis or any venues that include user-generated content—are surprisingly self-sufficient. It’s Worked Before. Community building isn’t easy.

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Use Forums to Boost Your Blog’s Value

ProBlogger

And we use social media channels to get the word out and go viral. 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. Still, what role do you assign to your existing audience?

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. Online social media services provide scope for members to donate time, resources and money how and when they want. With traditional media.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. Social Network.

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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. Do you have active profiles on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+? Are you guest posting, commenting on other blogs, and getting involved in forum discussions? It’s not enough to have a website or blog.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Conforming to social rules is something that humans ache to do – it’s what defines community- and badges and scorecards tell them in much clearer ways than ‘etiquette statements’ or ’social media staff guidelines’ ever can how to behave. Buddypress forum karma points. Enterprise 2.0:

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