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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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Tactical Tips for Building an Online Community

ProBlogger

With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use to keep members informed, active and increasing in number.

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11 Sure-Fire Ways to Get Me to Unfollow You on Twitter

Almost Savvy

Yeah, I don’t really know what you’re wearing, or not, when you’re actually tweeting, but please put some clothes on that avatar. You have the default Twitter avatar or are using a photo of your dog. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! You talk about yourself endlessly.

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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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Micro Persuasion: Three Little Tips for Capturing Info Bits Quickly

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The second way to use this is to start importing RSS feeds into a private room. They offer bookmarklets and other tools for easy flagging, a personalized RSS feed as well as mobile versions that strip down the articles down to just text for low-bandwidth reading on the go. Blog RSS Feed. Avatar Marketing. Comments: About.

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How Not to Use Twitter for Business (FroYo Edition) | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

In fact, the net result is that the business comes off looking disconnected and less interested in their community than they are in hawking their wares. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! It seems like the cool thing to do, sure, but does that make it smart? In short, no. Bad form all around.

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Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup

Laurel Papworth

Bookmark This: If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter SilkCharm or get these blog posts in email when you want! By the way quick question: have you ever had a politician respond on your blog with a comment? Or respond to your tweet? Lemme know? Facebook talks like a pirate.

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