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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

But then again, I never expected the little website I created to keep friends and family informed about Jerry’s progress to become the largest online community for canine amputees and their people either. Forums create discussion. The network creates community.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I see this seminar as a forum. The admin (Professor Macdonald) / moderator (students teaching the class on a given day) create categories of conversation, which are analogous to deciding on forum names/topics and sticky threads. (In In a forum, some threads get “stuck&# to the top and are thus afforded more visibility.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). Instead, they want to connect.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? Want to self promote?

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YouTube - Informal Learning in 10 minutes

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Loved the myface metaphor, driving home your themes of human community. YouTube Handbook. Community Guidelines. Community Help Forums. QuickList ( 0 ). Site: Home. Informal Learning in 10 minutes. Rate: 23 ratings Sign in to rate. Views: 14,848. more share options ). fewer share options ). Very nice video Jay.

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100 Examples of Corporate Social Media Policies

Koka Sexton

Social Media Handbook for Local Red Cross Units. Online Communications Guidelines. Forum Guidelines. Online Community Guidelines. Policy for Social Networking and Other Web-Based Communications. Guidelines for Participation in Online Communities. Community Guidelines. Community Guidelines.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They have discussion forums that are visited by moderators who merely police the content itself, but change never comes from suggestions offered in the forum itself or in the posts, even if hundreds of users contribute the same identical observations. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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