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Social Networking

Online Communities for Online Community Managers

July 10, 2009

I recently came across a bunch of links for Online Community Manager groups or communities via the Online Community Manager LinkedIn group. I figured I’d share them! I haven’t signed up for many of these, so I don’t know if they’re worthwhile or not, but you can find that out for yourself. Communities of Practice [...]

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6 Ways People Enjoy Using Twitter

May 19, 2009

I love Twitter.  I’ve told people I love Twitter.  The common responses are “What is Twitter?” and “Explain this Twitter to me, I don’t get it.”  My responses have been different for every person who asks.  At first I told people that if they didn’t already know, it probably wasn’t worth them worrying about — [...]

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Bringing Your Company Online with Twitter

March 21, 2009

So you want to see what Twitter is all about. You are also part of a company that you’d like represented on Twitter. Do you start a page for both? Do you tweet as yourself AND your company? Do you just tweet as the company? I’ve been faced with this question a couple of times [...]

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Blog Comment Graphics, or Gravatars

February 8, 2009

If you’re a rookie blog commenter, you might wonder how some people get custom icons next to their comments, while others do not.  It’s actually really simple!  Those little pictures are called Gravatars, a condensation of Globally Recognized Avatars.  A Gravatar is an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog, appearing beside your [...]

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2009: My Year to Discover Social Media.

January 15, 2009

After starting two new online communities in 2008, I became really interested in other forms of Social Media.  I feel like that term is already getting overused, but for the sake of this post I’m running with it.  In 2008 I moved on from MySpace and started a Facebook.  In a short amount of time [...]

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