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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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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A few weeks later, a surprising blog post was published that outed the marketing firm and hosting company that sponsored the particular study. And it turned out that the whole thing was a viral marketing sham, too, which was discovered by numerous Digg members. Kn ow your social media source’s demographics.

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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

. ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel. The only other place where Facebook scores over Twitter is on the Disqus platform but there also it is a close fight b/w the two. In that poll there were 5000 + votes with the community voting in favor of Facebook.

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

Convince & Convert

For instance, open source software and the Freemium model are allowing for a more organic, bottom-up adoption of many applications and technologies. Alternatively, an organization may use the open source LAMP stack and OpenOffice and save a great deal on software licenses. Enterprise 1.0 was very much top-down.

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Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship

Social Media Strategery

It showed me people asking the tough questions , demanding more out of the community, and tackling some very polarizing legal issues. You’re also right on about open source software – it’s not always the answer. You’re also right on about open source software – it’s not always the answer.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. We’re not talking about enterprise-wide IT systems here, these are relatively simple changes that you can make today and start realizing the benefits of using open platforms as opposed to closed channels. 101 , buy-in , marketing , social media , web 2.0

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tagged as: audacity of free , authors , book , chris brogan , free , Marketing , social media { 3 trackbacks } VIP Access: The VIPerchill Business Plan August 4, 2010 at 4:12 am Could Consultants Offer Incentive-Based Pricing? Before I was in marketing, I was in tech support. At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed.

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