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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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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maintaining traditional channels like phone, email and live chat support are a must—but a solid support community can cut that burden drastically, saving you time and money. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support. It’s Worked Before.

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Research Methods 'Beyond Google' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

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News, Views and Careers for All of Higher Education. See all 224 new postings Browse all job listings: Faculty: 2,518 Administrative: 2,105 Executive: 153. New Tool for Online Collections , Feb. Open Minds, Open Books, Open Source , Feb. Sign up for free daily news e-mail. June 27, 2008.

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News from Other Blogs

The Marketing Blog

47 am News from Other Blogs Jump to Comments Vogue’s India Launch Click to Read. Read here Bathroom Blogfest 2007 Read here The comment contest winner Read here Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under News Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

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A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. social news. Customer Support.

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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. Mashable Community’s Opinion Obviously the number of reactions cannot be directly translated to the likelihood of a user joining either of the two networks. ’43′ respondents have voted in favor of Facebook !

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

Aaron from Money life has written an interesting news-piece featuring this study. For this study we profiled 66 companies from ’9′ verticals and analysed them on different quantitative & qualitative parameters like no. of tweets, tweet type, conversation type.

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