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Epic News Alerts On Twitter

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. Twitter is a communication tool, so there is no surprise that mainstream media wants to capitalize on the service.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

The good news is, with most good hosting packages like Bluehost , they’ll offer easy installation through a hosting control panel, so you can have them up and running in minutes. Three of the most used platforms these days are vBulletin , phpBB and Simple Forums. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. Twitter is a communication tool, so there is no surprise that mainstream media wants to capitalize on the service.

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Five for Friday

Jeff Esposito

Facebook is the hotness that many are using as their community platform to build out oodles of fans (Twitter and LinkedIn are doing this to a lesser extent). My whole take on this is moves to be PR-driven newsrooms or driven by former PR folks is that our news is crap and that we just can’t trust it.

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Tap User Psychology to Build an Indestructible Community Around Your Blog

ProBlogger

Create opportunities for members to be involved: proactively provide members with opportunities to influence the community. Have a Be more involved tab, recruit volunteers to send in the latest news, interview popular people in your sector, and actively recruit new people to join the community.

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

Social Media Strategery

For you developers, what’s preventing you from getting this involved in the communities/platforms that you’re responsible for creating? Anonymous Tim – my argument is that for developers, participating in the communities/platforms and actually using them SHOULD be part of what they’re getting paid for.

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Ask Buffer: How to Create High Quality Content

Buffer Social

This method helps reshape your algorithm(s) to your interests so that the most relevant news and advice come to you instead of vice versa. Shape your digital presence around your niche : Within your niche, follow industry leaders and top creators and dive into the popular newsletters.

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