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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Customers visit to ask questions and share knowledge, finding and sharing answers that power a tight-knit group of brand advocates. To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB. Strong communities require the right touch. Community building isn’t easy.

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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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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. Or in this case, a clip of the donation: Completed group actions (and only completed group actions) have a 10% fee taken from their totals. They have a clip-of-the-sale revenue model themselves.

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

Open Source Matters , Inc. the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. reached 15 million downloads,&# said Elin Waring, President of Open Source Maters, part of the Joomla! Project , today announced that Joomla!,

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A Brief History of the Evolution of Social Technology

Social Media Marketing

It is from within this technology group that Vic Hayes tweaked the wireless Internet and would become known as the "father of Wi-Fi." He is also a professional writer and blogger, with a particular interest in the open source Drupal platform. technology created the industry standards for wireless product manufacture.

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Open Source is a feature, not a benefit

The Way of the Web

Open source is a wonderful thing. We wouldn’t have GNU Linux, Ubuntu, Apache, Drupal, and we’d all be using Internet Explorer without the option to switch to Firefox or Chrome. There’s a painful truth here for developers currently flocking to the latest cool open source project on Github.

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Bear in mind that different people will bookmark the same site for different reasons: I might bookmark Terminus 1525 as a great example of a Drupal site, while you are saving it as a link to young Canadian artists. Follow the herd. tags will add commas to your tags. tags will add commas to your tags. Independence is a virtue. Amit_Asaravala.

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