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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

For several years, I’ve been using Reader Avatars (also called Reader Profiles or Personas) on my blogs – and I’ve found them very effective and helpful. To create your first reader avatar, you’ll need to spend some time thinking and writing about a type of reader that you’re either attempting to reach or who is already reading your blog.

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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. Want to know why ? Also birthdays.

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How to create a YouTube Business account: a step-by-step guide

Sprout Social

Click on the avatar icon on the top right corner of the screen. Click “Create” to activate your new YouTube account. To begin customizing your channel, click on the avatar icon on the top right corner of the screen. Featured channels and activity. Just like any other social network, YouTube represents a community.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. One, should we monetize other people’s activity? SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Different types of Social Networks (3).

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

But then again, I never expected the little website I created to keep friends and family informed about Jerry’s progress to become the largest online community for canine amputees and their people either. The network creates community. Forums create discussion.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Though to be honest, given the “But does Twitter have a business use&# questions, the audience weren’t quite ready to make the work place a fun and social environment. Taking Badges Further: I use incentives to reward influencers in my online communities in three ways: Points for repetitive, ongoing and countable activity.

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