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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

RefDesk - A free and user-friendly website, RefDesk is the place to go when you need fast facts and essential reference tools. The site has encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, maps, calculators, converters, quotes, a fact checker and much more. The site also features electronic versions of renowned literature and poetry.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

I won’t dive into the tactics of how to use these tools in this post, but below I reference the ways any person or business can build a community on a limited budget. In addition, WordPress’ sister offerings, BBpress and Buddypress offer message board and social network features as well that all integrate well with each other.

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

Webbiquity SMM

Angela Bowman shares her “clean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites&# for SEO, feeds, forms, security, Twitter and more. Robyn-Dale Samuda offers guidance on navigation setup, image tagging, sitemaps, permalinks, plugins and more for search-optimizing a WordPress site or blog. WordPress SEO.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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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.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

A visit to the main T-Wolves Web site finds absolutely none of the humility and forthrightness that made the original ad so compelling. But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. Your Web site. Linked from Twitter. At a minimum.

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Blogola – like it’s sister payola , it refers to bloggers receiving products and services in exchange for media coverage. On the other hand, Whole Foods CEO really crossed the line by posting on stock message boards under an alias name , attempting to influence the stock price of an acquisition. All around bad news.