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Become a Fearless Online Community Leader

The Realtime Report

Rather than force involvement, thriving communitiesbuild benches” for those on the sidelines. It explains the success and popularity behind massive historical online collaborations such as Wikipedia, Napster and Linux. billion in 2017) social network users around the globe will engage in an average of eight accounts.

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65 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Write truly informative and useful articles related to your niche, and publish them on WikiPedia. Use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to let people know about the contest. Build a wiki page for your blog. Then submit your PDFs to document sharing sites like Scribd and DocStoc. Register with Visible.me

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Taking advantage not only connecting with people but building relationships with them before selling. I think you can learn something from aggressively working at relationship building – doing it often, connecting with people who sync with you rather than your company. Selling should not even be a big part of the picture.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. Then, everyone will go to his/her respective home(s) on the web. You may have more than one. But PLURK?

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply John Exley August 26, 2009 at 2:16 am Tamar, I came across your article on Forbes.com tonight titled “Brand Building, Tweet by Tweet&# and really loved what you had to say about community building so I decided to check out your blog. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. I think we want to do well and build a good business.

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