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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

Of course you want those conversations to be of positive nature, but if you’re doing your job in delivering a great product or service, in most cases, they are. It’s about the strategies and methods to incorporate in your communities and social spaces to facilitate mutually beneficial conversations.

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Top SocialFish posts of 2010

SocialFish

Here’s to more great conversations to come in 2011! We have some great stuff in the works, including a new Open Community case study series by Deirdre Reid , and an interview series where we’ll be talking to several top association CEO’s about the ideas in our little book. in chronological order.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Actively pursue users, followers and engage in conversations, even if it doesn’t directly relate to your product or service. The companies that have had the most success in community building are the ones who have real people acting on behalf of these companies, engaging with users on a regular basis.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Here’s a list of 50 ideas (in no particular order) to help move the conversation along. . Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques. Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Check out Twitter as a way to show a company’s personality.

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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) You Don’t Have to Own A Community to Build Community. You’ll need some search-engine ninjas, RSS-reader Jedi masters, and Twitter superheros. Conversation.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 On June 29th, 2008, Jumping into the conversation? Microsoft Communities. Go join that!

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

As as I was told by one programmer a year or so ago when I recommended he start a blog to inform the rest of the community about the latest enhancements and maintenance activities, “Every hour I spend playing around on a blog post is an hour I spend away from coding!&# Well, that was helpful – thanks! Powered by Wordpress.

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