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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Three of the most used platforms these days are vBulletin , phpBB and Simple Forums. phpBB and Simple Forums are free, but heavily used with lots of support options. 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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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?

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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. Here’s how we did it.

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Are You a Productive Reader? - Stepcase Lifehack

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Get your own Avatars at Gravatars. RSS Subscription. CONTRIBUTE. PRODUCTIVITY. COMMUNICATION. TECHNOLOGY. MANAGEMENT. Your ID: Password: Forget your ID or password? Enter your email address: May 23rd, 2008 in Productivity. Are You a Productive Reader? I know you can read. Post your comment. Monthly Pick. Yearly Pick. motivation.

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Measuring Engagement

Proactive Report

update avatar, bio, links, email, customisation, etc). Register for Alerts by RSS feed – to get new content. Social media sharing / participation (activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, relevant design forums, blogs etc). Key page activity (post-activity). Messaging (onsite). Profile (e.g. Print page.

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Measuring Engagement

Proactive Report

update avatar, bio, links, email, customisation, etc). Register for Alerts by RSS feed – to get new content. Social media sharing / participation (activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, relevant design forums, blogs etc). Key page activity (post-activity). Messaging (onsite). Profile (e.g. Print page.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

And its success would not be possible without a few things that make the community what it has become: WordPress Multisite, discussion forums, and social networking. Forums create discussion. We decided to create discussion forums so members could answer each other’s questions directly. The network creates community.

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