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Where Do Forums Fit Into Social Media Marketing?

Josh S Peters

As someone that previously worked at an internet marketing company, I was always amused when a client would become obsessed with their Facebook or Myspace profile (yes, this was a few years back) and ask us to dedicate an unreasonable amount of resources to managing it.

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Where Do Forums Fit Into Social Media Marketing?

Josh S Peters

As someone that previously worked at an internet marketing company, I was always amused when a client would become obsessed with their Facebook or Myspace profile (yes, this was a few years back) and ask us to dedicate an unreasonable amount of resources to managing it.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.).

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

They harnessed blogs and message boards – “be very careful if you are trying to sell them – must be a very genuine conversation” Went to breast cancer blog sites – tried to give relevant information and how they can join in National Breast Cancer Awareness day.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. And those who see that the big loser is the message board’s credibility, and by extention, other board’s credibility, also.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back. Although I don’t post very much at all these days, I still read the threads on Twolvescentral.com (Star Tribune kind of killed the boards) on my iPhone every day. link] Jan_B @jaybaer is on a roll this week!

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Don’t assume that the person that gave you one star on a Yelp review is some sort of carnival freak outlier. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer.