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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

Hootsuite

Reddit is a social network with a forum-style discussion structure. Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. Subreddits have their own URL, for example the Star Wars subreddit can be found at www.reddit.com/r/StarWars. Every thread has an OP (original poster) who started it.

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UGC, Sponsored Are The Two New Nofollow Link Attributes Introduce By Google

BeingOptimist

Since then, the web was evolved with the introduction of no follow attributes in the year 2005. rel= “ugc”: UGC is recommended for links with user-generated comments, forum posts. It would actually recognize those links that look within user-generated articles, like comments and forum articles. UGC means User Generated Content.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

The role of a CM, as we know it today, really started in 2005 , when the role was akin to “The Forum Moderator.” For example, CMs (both internal and external) may collaborate with Customer Service, Marketing, Communications, R&D, Digital, eCommerce teams. That people-first mentality seeps into everything a CM does.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog

ProBlogger

Perhaps the best example I can think of to illustrate this is the time I started Digital Photography School (my main blog). Within a few weeks I’d not only turned comments back on at dPS but was already working towards starting a photography forum on the site too! I’ve seen this many times over on my blogs.

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6 Common Mistakes in Online Community Development

Convince & Convert

Take for example community development professional Ben Brown. In 2005, CNET bought Consumating. LitReactor is now a real community, with active forums; online classes that fill up; tons of editorial content; and a thriving space for writers to workshop their own material with other writers.