article thumbnail

How to Create a Thriving B2B Advocacy Community

Convince & Convert

jtroyer Tweet This Giving Back to Your Top Influencers Back in 2003, VMware ‘s online community was centered around a forum. Today, despite the fractured social media landscape, their community still has one central home on the web: the VMware Community site. See you next week!

article thumbnail

Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here!

Comments 220
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Changing State Of Blogs

Twist Image

Are blogs dead? and I on to his podcast to discuss this whole, "is blogging dead?" What is a blog? At the time, many new types of blogs started down the same path. Still, these blogs had the core technical features of a personal blog. This was another core component of what made a blog a "blog."

RSS 40
article thumbnail

When DIY Blogging isn’t for You: 5 Alternatives to Self-Hosted WordPress

ProBlogger

Here on ProBlogger, we’ve always recommended self-hosted WordPress (aka WordPress.org) as the very best platform for blogging. Many of the world’s largest blogs and websites run on self-hosted WordPress. And a self-hosted blog gives you full control and plenty of flexibility. And with good reason. Sound like you?

article thumbnail

How to Make Your Blogging Dreams Come True

ProBlogger

” ‘V’ – my wife – must have heard that statement 100 or more times in 2003-2004. Me posing for my first ever press photo in 2003. In short, she challenged me to start treating my blog as a business ‘today’ rather than hoping it might be one at some point in the future. in 9 years time.

eBook 55
article thumbnail

Social Success Comes from Individuality

Convince & Convert

We pulled out some of the insights from each show: Water.org Chief Community Officer, Mike McCamon Mike McCamon, Water.org @mccamon Mike’s team has distinguished their work at Water.org through creative partnerships. Smaller businesses have their fingers on the pulses of their local communities and can tap into that.

Software 147
article thumbnail

No Straight Lines / Technology makes it easy to remember,' the trick is learning how to forget

Buzz Marketing for Technology

… a knowledge worker’s waste blog … Skip to content. A blog post I wrote a year ago. If the internet is a global cocktail party, and blogs are its conversations, I’m the guy who takes it all in and thinks of something to say as he’s driving home from the party. December 2003. November 2003.