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Etsy.com: Online Community Revenue

Laurel Papworth

Etsy is a funky boutique of an online community, an independent online marketplace for handmade products and vintage goods where hand made jewellry, with tailor made skirts and vintage jackets live side by side with chocolates and photography. For 2008: Etsy’s 2008 gross merchandise sales reached $88 million in 2008.

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Susan Sarfati Talks Open Community

SocialFish

This post kicks off a series of executive interviews we’re doing about the concepts in our book, Open Community. We sat down with Susan Sarfati , who was CEO of GWSAE, the founding CEO of The Center for Association Leadership and Executive Vice President of ASAE, before starting her own consulting firm in 2008.

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2tor Paves the Way for Online Education and Community Building

Convince & Convert

Two team members from the online education company 2tor join Jay Baer and Eric Boggs on the Social Pros Podcast this week – Alexa Scordato , Director of Communications & Social Media, and Harrison Kratz , Community Manager for the MBA@UNC program.

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Proto.in July 18-19 2008

The Marketing Blog

July 18-19 2008 Jump to Comments I discovered the news about proto.in 2008 , proto july 18-19 , proto.in july 18-19 2008 Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under Events Tags: arun , proto registration , proto.in , trak.in 38 pm Proto.in from Arun’s latest blog-post on trak.in. Theme: Pressrow.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event - June 11, 2008

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Rensselaer and the Tetherless World Research Constellation are partnering with one of the most widely read technology blogs in the world, ReadWriteWeb , to help engage the entire Web community in this interactive event. Copyright © 2008 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Tetherless World Constellation Web Site.

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6 Common Mistakes in Online Community Development

Convince & Convert

Many of the myths surrounding online community development are proliferated by common sense conclusions. Creating an online community has a basis in science—but best practices that seem clear-cut on the surface become much more complicated when you dig deeper. Only then can you define the business goals of your community.

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Social Media Community Management: An Interview with Kathryn Peck of EA SPORTS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Her community outreach on behalf of Electronic Arts was amazing and her engagement with customers gives all of us lessons to live by. What’s a typical day like for you as the EA SPORTS Active Community Manager? How (and when) did you get to be the Community Manager for EA Sports Active?