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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.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

They offer the standard fare including profiles, groups, message boards, multimedia, etc. 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. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site.

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

Sprout Social

It’s your job to find this community, connect with it directly, and build a strategy for individuals within the community to interact with each other. And you want to do this because your brand community is a powerful business tool. Choose a community platform. Take Spotify’s community , for example.

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Five Digital Channels For Word of Mouth Marketing

Mindjumpers

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. It happens spontaneously via the interactions between people on such sites, but also by assembling relevant pages and communities whereby you closely follow the feedback of the communities and provide a viral element.

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