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Are You Keeping People Connected With Your Brand and Each Other?

Convince & Convert

The Weight Watchers site features a Community section with message boards for support, etc. Also from the world of football, we have a great example of real-time marketing for our Holy Social! Weight-loss programs lend themselves to gamification , since there are already numbers and goals involved. Holy Social!

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How Social Media can Fix the Troll and Bullying problem

Laurel Papworth

Bullying can be a contributing factor in suicide and damages whole communities not just the bullied. Because they reflect back the community values with a twist. Wow there are SOOO many examples of the community taking issue with a troll. Director of Prosecution Community Consultation. Comedians are trolls.

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50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Other site features include a blog and a community forum. Examples include style guidelines, writing instruction, editing tutorials and grammar guidelines. The site is a great place to find citation examples and double-check your work. Other site features include a message board and rich text editor.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

You can’t just ‘leave your mark’ and expect success…Members of social media communities are no longer swayed by a coupon for 10% off or an invitation to try a new product. Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). Instead, they want to connect.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. Reply BarbaraKB March 12, 2009 at 10:32 am Good analysis, Tamar.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back. Which leads me to what I think is a huge miss by most sports franchises, including the Twolves: the message boarders.

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Why Twilight has Such a Massive Following—and How to Apply This Concept to Your Blog

ProBlogger

I see message boards and fan sites brimming with excitement over the latest film or gossip about one of the actors, and when they show snippets of the premiers on the news, there are always lots of screaming fans. Take this blog post for example. I’ve met people who say they just watching the movies for a laugh.

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