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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

They have hosted and self-hosted solutions depending on your needs. If you haven’t done so already, familiarize yourself a bit with FTP software and a dependable affordable hosting solution (I use Bluehost , they are outstanding). They offer the standard fare including profiles, groups, message boards, multimedia, etc.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Michael Dell spoke about the issue of proximity in an article in Forbes back in 2006: The first step was to add blogs and message boards in the hope that irate customers will talk to the company rather than gripe to the whole Internet. Or do they need to socialize their homeland as well? The option just doesn’t exist.

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Are You Keeping People Connected With Your Brand and Each Other?

Convince & Convert

The Weight Watchers site features a Community section with message boards for support, etc. Jay is the founder of [link] and host of the Social Pros podcast. Weight-loss programs lend themselves to gamification , since there are already numbers and goals involved.

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50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The site has encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, maps, calculators, converters, quotes, a fact checker and much more. Virtual Reference Shelf - This site features select web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. It is the perfect site for anyone who wants free and unlimited access to great books online.

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An Interview with Advocate Health Care: Case Study #StoriesOfTheGirls

Diva Marketing Blog

In order to gain the necessary buy-in, our CMO hosted numerous sessions where she outlined the campaign and addressed any questions and concerns. So, that said we measured the growth in mammogram appointments (up over 10% across the system), web site visits, and engagement in the conversation (social media).

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Changes in News Delivery Give New Power to Press Releases

Proactive Report

10% were using the so-called “cloud”—or hosted applications, or services delivered over the Internet. While there were vigorous conversations going on in forums and message boards, there were no social networks. Just 5% had broadband at home. No one was wirelessly connected. The press release is available here.).

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How Offline Promotion Landed 300 New Blog Visitors

ProBlogger

Sure, the traffic has grown, slow and steady, but I decided that I needed to do something different this summer; not only to grow the site faster, but to make marketing more enjoyable for myself. And these are the kind of people who aren’t trolling comment threads and message boards like the rest of us. My experiment.