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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Three of the most used platforms these days are vBulletin , phpBB and Simple Forums. phpBB and Simple Forums are free, but heavily used with lots of support options. Create Community Next you need to consider having a “controlled” community environment in your world.

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What is a brand community and how to build a successful one

Sprout Social

Choose a community platform. There are several different options when it comes to creating your brand community’s home base. A forum is a great way for a much larger community to be able to talk about shared interests, whether they’re directly about the brand or not. Third-party community platforms.

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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

I have scheduled blog feeds on Twitter, but I don’t schedule tweets, because you can’t have a conversation. You can’t schedule community. Jay: I like that quote, “You can’t schedule community.” So many times now, it seems that Facebook in particular has become the de facto community platform.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.