Archive for Communities Online
Social Media: The Instant Brand Killer
With the increasing uptake of social media sites such as Digg, Technorati, Slashdot, YouTube and MySpace, together with community bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Reddit and Ma.gnolia, companies the world over can reach their target markets via a whole new channel.
Social networking is like viral marketing on steroids. Companies can release a new product in the morning and have it talked about by millions of users on thousands of sites by the afternoon.
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Promotion through Social Media
Promoting your website through social media channels is a powerful strategy to achieve online visibility, traffic and sales.
Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn have a combined membership of over 500 million members and growing.
Let IDGLabs help you create a rewarding social network presence with an advertising campaign that delivers tangible results for your business.
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How to Set up a Professional Twitter Profile
Twitter is an awesome Social Media tool for businesses. For those who are Beginners at twitter you should know that it is a great way to connect with not only other business owners in your niche, but it is also a superb way to converse with your customers and potential customers.
But, in order to connect with these business owners and consumers they need to be following you on Twitter….. following your conversations. If a member of the Twitter community is not following you they can not hear you. So, in order for Twitter to work effectively you need to get members to follow you.
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Building Real Communities Online
Affinity is the name of the game for communities and social networking tools can really help to keep a community focused on shared values. People like to live near people that are like them, this is a social norm.
But does this norm extend to online communities as well? My basic observations say yes, as I evaluated my own online communities I found that the people I engage with are very much like my friends and neighbors of the physical world. As a matter of fact, some of them are the very same people.
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