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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Support communities—forum sites, wikis or any venues that include user-generated content—are surprisingly self-sufficient. To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB. Customers who participate, create content and connect with other community members become loyal brand advocates.

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Bear in mind that different people will bookmark the same site for different reasons: I might bookmark Terminus 1525 as a great example of a Drupal site, while you are saving it as a link to young Canadian artists. A wiki can help do the job. Follow the herd. tags will add commas to your tags. tags will add commas to your tags.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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It was originally part of a class wiki. On the other hand, in Europe more sites use inhouse and open source implementations (Vuorikari, 2003). These allow custom extensions, which may pave the way for the development of open APIs for connection by PLEs. In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. , This prototype is called PLEX.

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