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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 1: Hit The Big Three (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) It’s no secret that social networking is all the rage, so it doesn’t take a genius to point out that you need to start there. By far, Facebook , Twitter and Linked In are where I think most businesses should start their community building. Social Network Platforms 1.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. Start a community group on Facebook or Ning or MySpace or LinkedIn around the space where your customer does business. Don’t fabricate this).

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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

Create Community Next you need to consider having a “controlled” community environment in your world. In other words, a community platform that lives on your site. A place that you can offer your customers/audience a place to communicate in addition to external channels.

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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. Content curation.

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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. I think the same is true for the bevy of social tools. Social networking has hit a tipping point, but the channels will continue to ebb and flow.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

Looking forward to meeting you at Coastal Social. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. In the case of this blog, you'll see the top level “like&# in the top right corner by the RSS icon.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Looking forward to meeting you at Coastal Social. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. In the case of this blog, you'll see the top level “like&# in the top right corner by the RSS icon.

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