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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. If you’re only on the forum to tell other people to visit your website or to use your product, you won’t go far.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Now, take a look at the official support areas for WordPress , Telligent , MindTouch , Jive or any of the dozens of social software vendor sites. If there’s a glitch involved with posting a new comment to a forum, they’re going to be the first ones to see it, diagnose the problem and fix it. Notice anything?

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