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A Tale of Two Communities Part 1 – Volkswagen

SocialFish

There are tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of users actively participating in online forums. There are multitudes of forums (outposts) around the world that represent either geographic or interest specific sub communities. It is easy to be a “lurker&# and yet learn a great deal from the community.

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7 Powerful Ways to Get Your Blog Post Noticed

ProBlogger

You can simply ask for topics on Twitter, do a Google search with your topic and the word “help”, hang out in online forums, or survey your own readers. Lurkers start commenting and people start sharing. Research is the process of pinpointing what interests your readers. These days, research is pretty simple to do. Yep, that voice.

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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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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

5 Ways That Sales People Can Benefit From Using Social Media by OPEN Forum. Kevin Barenblat presentes a taxonomy of social media failure types, including “canned responders,&# spammers, lurkers and serial re-tweeters. Top 10 Social Media “Power Friending&# Tips by OPEN Forum. Social media is cheap or free.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

A lurker is someone who watches a social media feed or belongs to a social media group but does not engage with the content with a like or reply. —M—. A post refers to any social media status update, photo, or video, or an item shared on a blog or forum. How to Use Instagram Live to Grow and Engage Your Followers.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

For a lot of competitive keyphrases online you’ll also find popular blogs, forums and niche social networks ranking highly. Add Links to Your Forum Signatures Unlike blogs where you get nofollow links for contributing to the discussion, most forums allow you to have a (followed) link in your signature, every time you make a post.

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