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Strategies to Ensure an Engaged Social Presence

Harp Interactive

This is where you seek out activity on social media that isn’t directed to you or your company and you engage with this information. Make sure you open up Disqus and Gravatar accounts for blog comments – Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatar, so that your brand is being represented uniformly across the social media universe.

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12 (of the) Best WordPress Guides and Plugin Reviews of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Dainis Graveris presents 33 plugins to “power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security,” including Disqus, WP Ajax Edit Comments, Comment Rating and Twitter Avatars in Comments. by majordojo. ** 5 STARS. 33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section by 1stwebdesigner.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

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. All three offerings give you the standard message board fare from profiles, to avatars, to point systems to reward frequent users.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. If your customers and prospects feel like your company is more human and actually cares about them, they’ll want to be part of it.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Granted, some companies use MySpace quite efficiently , but I feel that it targets a different demographic. All the other sites I network in are usually done under another persona, but I am a very good friend to have and very supportive of my friends even though I don’t know anything about most of them beyond the avatar. (My

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Even though we're all just the text of our name or a simple avatar/pic to each other, we're all real people inside. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. And thus, a relationship starts to grow. And like all relationships it has to be nurtured and such. Im Jay Baer.