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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The social web has opened the communication floodgates. While most brands look to make a name for themselves on Facebook and Twitter, other businesses take a more introspective approach. Support communities—forum sites, wikis or any venues that include user-generated content—are surprisingly self-sufficient. It’s Worked Before.

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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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12 of the Best WordPress Guides, Hacks and Plugins of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. 10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses by American Express OPEN Forum. Code to Create Custom Share Buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Delicious by B2B Online Marketing.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 1: Hit The Big Three (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) It’s no secret that social networking is all the rage, so it doesn’t take a genius to point out that you need to start there. By far, Facebook , Twitter and Linked In are where I think most businesses should start their community building.

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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?

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Web Hosting demystified - II

The Marketing Blog

55 am Discussion forums still alive. these days … ) My quest for a good web-host landed me at several websites, blogs and discussion forums. Although the evolution of blogs has re-defined the art of conversations good old php forum continues to run well despite stuff competition. Why these forums work ?

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Facebook will surge ahead in India

The Marketing Blog

I am utterly baffled and hope you’ll be able to aid me out, sorry to use this being a service forum hehe but I am desperate Gives thanks again I’ve bookmarked this web page. Reply Lauryn Brier February 13, 2010 at 8:47 am Now what are your thoughts on (mt) and GoDaddy, cause Im on G.d. but wish to switch to (mt).

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