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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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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

online communities. sharing knowledge. In the interview: Laurence Lock Lee explains how social network analysis reveals the connections between people and the resulting knowledge distribution network. Thomas Vander Wal explains folksonomy - using social taging to organize knowledge based on interconnections between people.

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Personal KM; KM Business Case; KM, culture and compromise; KM Books Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

HP Communities. Search: HP Communities. Weekly Knowledge Management blog by Stan Garfield. Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield. Please join and make your knowledge vote count! Working Knowledge. Communities of Practice. Enabling Knowledge Creation. Communities (41 posts).

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Hawaii Tsunami Proves Social Media Power Again: Information is a.

Bare Feet Studios

via @KaimanaPine ) Extended Family: Online communities like Twitter and Facebook serve as extended families – smart and caring to boot! The tag #hitsunami was quickly created and spread among the community, and moved to the top of Twitter trends in a few hours. People also share support and help dispel rumors that create anxiety.

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Looking Back at My 2009 Social Media Resolutions

Social Media Strategery

I was rarely able to carve out an hour a day to read and comment on other blogs, discussion forums, online communities and books. We all face these competing priorities, but we also have to make community participation and professional growth a priority as well. In 2010, I hope that I’m able to turn this into reality.

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Ethics in Social Media: A Glossary | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

She didn’t last long, as the community questioned her extreme statements and Jeremiah Owyang (a Forrester Analyst) contacted Exxon directly for comment. (I Sock Puppets are the paid marketers who pose as community members to create content on behalf of a client or their own company. There’s an example here.

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Social Media Club Hawaii Celebrates Ma Ka Hana Ka ?Ike

Bare Feet Studios

One of the first goals we had was to get the word out in the community about our organization. The winner was a small nonprofit based in Hana, Maui, supported by Rick and Kirsten Rutiz to teach the high school youth about construction. They then build housing, gardens, arts centers, and wheelchair ramps in the community.