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8 ways to deal with negative comments in online communities

Laurel Papworth

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Unless they go off and create an anti-community such as Dell Hell, alert the Press and continue to pursue their point of view. Law as bullying tactic rarely works, it just incenses the community. Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them?

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New Photo-sharing App Called “Color”. The Next Big Thing?

Mindjumpers

However, a part of this might be caused by the fact that the company received $41 million in pre-launch venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital and Silicon Valley Bank. In this relation, the founder, Bill Bguyen, has also stated that the core goal with Color is to make small communities of friends and strangers.

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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

I was lucky that my first internship – back in 2000 – turned into an opportunity to take on the role of webmaster for a division of Hitachi in Europe, and I parlayed that into a second internship doing web development for a bank in the UK. Foursquare didn’t exist yet. When social media first emerged, I found it absolutely compelling.

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Where does marketing fit into social media?

Jeff Esposito

If companies were aware of the space, it was often from a communications perspective. Fast forward to today and the space is littered with case studies of company X, Y or Z making some serious coin off their community. Boston’s Boloco does a great job of this using Twitter and foursquare.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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7 steps to shutting down a social media site

Laurel Papworth

Remember, customers believe that social media sites belong to “them&# the customer and for a % of your online community your exit strategy is going to destroy their friendships and their content. For Radar : A warm look at history of the online community. More in Social Media is Not An Experiment. An exit event pre-shutdown.

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Corporate Social Media Reading List

Koka Sexton

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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