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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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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And if this post isn’t proof enough for you, check out Steven’s post relating to the quality of forum traffic , which often have even tighter knit communities than Sphinn. Steven reports that the average user from one niche forum stays for more than 7 and 1/2 minutes! Others want massive brand exposure.

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6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maybe it’s on a forum. Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. But, like good Social Media community members, I’m thrilled to be able to help my parents out and give back as well! Maybe it’s on Twitter.

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Social Pros 9 – Christopher S. Penn, WhatCounts

Convince & Convert

The RSS feed is: [link]. You don’t need a best practices handbook anymore because you are the best practice at that point for your organization. Chris: If you guys ever want to see epic legion complaining, go check out the World of Warcraft forums that Activision-Blizzard has. Jay: Yes, the World of Warcraft forums.

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Social Pros 9 – Christopher S. Penn, WhatCounts

Convince & Convert

The RSS feed is: [link]. You don’t need a best practices handbook anymore because you are the best practice at that point for your organization. Chris: If you guys ever want to see epic legion complaining, go check out the World of Warcraft forums that Activision-Blizzard has. Jay: Yes, the World of Warcraft forums.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.