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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 7 – A Strategy Framework

Josh S Peters

and determine what blogs they read, social networks they use, forums or wikis they use, etc. Promote your content and promote sharing in all of your digital communications, like newsletters. Check out Forums, wikis, groups, blogs, etc. Use a social media listening platform like Radian6, Trakur, Sysomos, etc.

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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. It’s Worked Before. Community building isn’t easy. Like this post?

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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

Social Media Strategery

In the last several years we’ve seen a remarkable shift from blogs and discussion forums to instant update platforms like Twitter and Foursquare. Don’t just post the company’s newsletter on the platform – make it interactive, use the discussion forum to determine the content for the next newsletter, etc.

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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll You create a wiki page for your team containing the text of a report you're working on. Total Silence. "Call

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The Blog Is Dead: Long Live the Blog

ProBlogger

Wikis can be updated frequently, but they’re usually updated by users of the wiki itself, and they’re most commonly used as references. That said, many blogs seek to act as references of points of authority on their topic, as do wikis. There are ezines and electronic newsletters, and there are news sites.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. at least once a week. Cross-promote.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

Feature a newsletter signup box prominently near the upper-right corner of your blog. From time to time, write “teaser&# posts informing readers of what content they are missing, but could be getting, as a newsletter subscriber. An active and helpful support forum? Build your email subscriber list.

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