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Entries from August 2008

Word of Mouth Marketing, The Gas Pedal way.

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Andy Sernovitz invited me to attend the Word of Mouth Crash Course put on by Gas Pedal. Its a one day course on how to get people talking about you and your business.
I love word of mouth marketing. Its how I’ve gotten work all my life. With the rise of the web as a [...]

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Tags: social media

Don’t make me log in to unsubscribe, Foundation Center

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m sorry, but this drives me up the wall. And its not just the Foundation Center that does this, but we’re going to use them as an example.
The Foundation Center is a great organization, they run a number of free resource libraries where you can get all sorts of information on grants, fundraising, etc. [...]

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Tags: community development

To grow your niche social network, ask your talkers

August 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Just a quick thought here. Today I spoke at SocialDevCamp Chicago on creating niche social networks. I was asked by an audience member how she could get people who use their website to start taking part in conversations, interacting.

My answer was that she herself was probably not going to get more people to interact, [...]

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Tags: social networking