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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. 3dcart Software Forums : As one of the leading shopping cart software platforms on the market, 3dcart prides itself on customer support. To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB.

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Leverage Multi-Social Media Platforms to Tell Stories

Direct Marketing Observations

So let’s think through that quickly about the multiple platforms that you, me, and your organization can now use to convey your key message themes: Blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Forums, Websites, QR Codes, Group Buying sites, and LBS( location based sites)-to name but a few. Rich stories.

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

Open Source Matters , Inc. the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. reached 15 million downloads,&# said Elin Waring, President of Open Source Maters, part of the Joomla! Project , today announced that Joomla!,

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Or in this case, a clip of the donation: Completed group actions (and only completed group actions) have a 10% fee taken from their totals. Remember, there is no cost to set up a group action and everyone receives a complete refund if a group action expires. They have a clip-of-the-sale revenue model themselves.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 2: Build Your Home Base I have practically made a living utilizing open source software to fulfill all my web needs. 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.

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Web Hosting demystified - II

The Marketing Blog

55 am Discussion forums still alive. these days … ) My quest for a good web-host landed me at several websites, blogs and discussion forums. Although the evolution of blogs has re-defined the art of conversations good old php forum continues to run well despite stuff competition. Why these forums work ?

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Find out how they like to communicate - do they prefer email, discussion forums, or are they happy getting their hands dirty with a wiki? It is however easy to set up and open source. Test it out on some of your initial group to get their thoughts. Post to relevant forums, blogs and mailing lists about what you are doing.

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