Category Archives: community

From Zero to Community: Practical Advice for Growing and Nurturing an Online Community

Written on September 16, 2009 by Bert DuMars in Graco Baby, Newell Rubbermaid, Powered, Rubbermaid, Sharpie, community, social network, social web
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I will be on a webcast tomorrow, September 17, 2009 at 3PM Eastern with Aaron Strout, CMO at Powered, and Rachel Happe, Principal and Founder, The Community Roundtable (@theCR). We will be presenting: From Zero To Community: Practical Advice for Growing and Nurturing an Online Community.
Rachel will be presenting her Community Maturity Model [...]

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Atlanta PR Camp

Written on August 21, 2009 by Bert DuMars in Atlanta, PR Camp, community, social media, social web
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I had the pleasure of being a camp counselor/moderator today at the PR Camp Atlanta (press release) event developed by Dan Greenfield of Bernaise Source Media.
The event was held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center and there were approximately 200 attendees.
I had the pleasure of moderating the first session for the Green Team. [...]

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If The Twitter Community Were 100 People

Written on August 17, 2009 by Bert DuMars in community, statistics, twitter, visualization
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I like the perspective on Twitter provided by the below graphic created by David McCandless from his Information is Beautiful blog. It simplifies the view of the Twitter community by synthsizing it down to 100 people. It also provides an interesting perspective on what people are tweeting about on different days of the [...]

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Quck-n-Dirty Social Media Podcast

Written on August 13, 2009 by Bert DuMars in community, interview, podcast, quick-n-dirty, social media, social web
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I have the pleasure of being a guest on the Quick-n-Dirty Social Media Podcast this evening, 6 PM Eastern Time, August 13, 2009. The hosts are Jennifer Leggio, ZDNet Blogger and @Mediaphyter, and Aaron Strout, CMO Powered Inc. and @AaronStrout. We will be discussing Newell Rubbermaid’s branded social media and community marketing efforts and other [...]

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