Online Communities

Online Communities are found around in various formats. Popular blogs with regular readers (who also comment on posts regularly), forums and more obviously social networking sites often fall under the 'online community' definition, as can some MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).

The definitive factor is a place where people communicate with each other online. Whether an e-mail list can be called an online community is questionable, whilst many online communities have certainly grown around what started out as a simple e-mail list.

You'll find a number of articles about online communities here. Another one of my favorite blogs covering the topic is Mashable.com, which, as well as talking about online communities, has its own social networking community element on the site.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Online Communities”

• Facebook Fan Trafiking

  
  Rubbishcorp .::. — Authority: 506
  Viralee enables you to buy Facebook fans for cash, and very little cash at that. The service claims to have sold over 1 million fans, which is a fairly large amount of money. Once you’ve coughed up fans start arriving as follows: For 1-100 fans – same day For 1,000 fans – inside of 5 days For 10,000 fans – ...
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• Know your customer: digital tribes

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 133
  The rise of social networks has changed how companies interact with their users: online marketing is now about social communities and generating interest groups rather than just the hard sellAs we move into the second decade of Googles existence and witness the fast rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter, ...
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• I Outgrew This Type of Behavior in High School

  
  Weekly Beef — Authority: 92
  I like meeting new people and my husband says I like to talk. OK, he says I have that womans disease where I talk incessantly. What better place to combine the two than forums . I have to be honest when went to my first forum I was shy, stayed in the shadows and just lurked. After I made my first post that was it, ...
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• Antisocial Socialites

  
  The Simian Downtime Analyst — Authority: 116
  Image by ncomment via Flickr I get it. You want to sound like an authority on something. All the other authorities have said something is dead, but you want to fit in so you swirl the words around in a cup and say it is dead on your blog as well. That’s lovely. Now can you shut up about it. If this service ...
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• TweetDeck 0.32 adds Lists Support

  
  clipotech — Authority: 130
  via  blog.tweetdeck.com Twitter Lists in full, glorious TweetDeck style. Export your old TweetDeck Groups to new Twitter Lists or create Lists from scratch. Well even give you great suggestions for who to add. Explore your friends lists, following and creating columns when you find Lists you like. You can even ...
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• Tweetie 2.1 now has Twitter Lists support

  
  clipotech — Authority: 130
  Image by svartling via Flickr I have waited and waited for either Tweetie or SimplyTweet to add Twitter Lists support, and now Tweetie has done that in the latest version, plus alot more! Twitter Lists is the new way for me to find the latest hottest news. My lists have made me completly stopped using ...
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• BREAKING: I Have A Statement From The Real Michael Lohan Regarding “Suicide Tweets” *SHABOOTY EXCLUSIVE*

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 539
  BREAKING NEWS: I Have A Statement From The Real Michael Lohan Regarding “Suicide Tweets” *SHABOOTY.COM EXCLUSIVE* This is not not not me. I do not have and never had a twitter and twitter’s corporate office confirms that. My lawyers are investigating. THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS, A DIRECT STATEMENT FROM ...
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• Social media monitoring is easy; it’s what you do with it that counts

  
  FreshNetworks Blog — Authority: 621
  Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via Flickr Social media monitoring is easy, well at least the first part of it is – collecting mentions and stories about your brand, products or other terms. There are a lot of tools out there – from free social media monitoring tools to enterprise level solutions. ...
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• HootSuite Adds Twitter Lists and a lot more!

  
  clipotech — Authority: 130
  Image by svartling via Flickr One of our favorite tools for the powerhouse Twitter user — HootSuite — just got even better. In a massive update, the free web service has added support for Facebook , LinkedIn , and T witter Lists .  Link:  http://j.mp/4Ie8CZ   Title: HootSuite Adds Support for ...
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• ONLINE RESEARCH COMMUNITIES FOR PHARMA & HEALTHCARE CLIENTS

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 133
  via http://www.dubstudios.com/our-blog/At Dub, weve recently been building a number of online research communities to capture discussions around some very private and sensitive issues. These insight and innovation-purposed communities have been commissioned by players in the pharmaceutical and health and well-being ...
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• Kicking the Collective Ass of an Industry

  
  Kim Werker — Authority: 452
  In the couple of weeks since the Twitter fail I wrote about , I’ve had some very interesting conversations with people in the yarn industry about business use of social media, and specifically about the role TNNA could and/or should play in educating yarn-related businesses about it. Yesterday I tweeted this : ...
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• Subliminal hyper text markup language

  
  POTPOLITICS — Authority: 485
  You will visit POTPOLITICS everyday.Click the RT button NOW thanksI’m please to be able to share my discovery of advancing html with some new code that allows you to add messages to your blog or any site. You can scroll messages to the reader that they can’t see. The messages are actually [...]
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• Populis: Online Communities from Itracks

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 133
  Market Research Online Communities (MROCs) offer an interactive channel to communicate and develop relationships with your customers by engaging them in meaningful conversation. With Populis, decision makers can track social networks that keep a pulse on customer satisfaction, loyalty, perception, and spending habits. ...
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• Bowling Talks Modern Warfare 2 DLC, Hints At Spring

  
  GamerCenterOnline — Authority: 493
  When a game sells as much as Modern Warfare 2 there must be millions of people wondering when they’ll be able get there hands on some Modern Warfare 2 downloadable content . Nonetheless, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has replied to the age old question. “DLC is planned fir the wonderfully vauge timeframe ...
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• One Size Does NOT Fit All

  
  Fun Anymore — Authority: 120
  Image by tripleman via Flickr There exists a misalignment of goals between a speaker on stage and an audience member in attendance. And as the size of the audience grows, so does the misalignment. As a speaker, I have to appeal to everyone in the room. If you’ve been to one of my talks, you know that I ...
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• Avatar | Interactive Trailer

  
  Rubbishcorp .::. — Authority: 506
  The Official Avatar Interactive Trailer is an AIR app that brings Avatar’s Pandora natives directly to your desktop. The tech contains all of the so-far-released Avatar trailers as well as dozens of video shorts that go ‘deep’ on the making of the movie and main characters. As you watch a trailer, ...
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• Quoted: Tabitha Stevens on my Eric The Actor Interview

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 539
  Quoted: Tabitha Stevens on my Eric The Actor Interview Thanks to Tabitha for the love. This was in response to some douchebag who created a new twitter account, solely for the purpose of trying to ‘ether’ me…yawn. Eric and Tabitha know what’s up! in reply to @allsports1975: If you missed the ...
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• Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda Blair Exorcist antic. (yes I know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but I’m still seguing from Halloween here…) I ...
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• Small Business Owners Can Engage in Social Media as Customers Too

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by PartnerUp.Companies across the globe are hitting the social media scene hard in an effort to better reach their customers and deepen relationships. This kind of activity is visible on sites like Twitter or industry/company-specific online communities.While many small business ...
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• Tweets for November 23rd

  
  New Trommetter Times — Authority: 134
  @ claritynow I’d recommend a Dell Mini 10v for a budget conscious senior. in reply to claritynow # I favorited a YouTube video — Happy Thanksgiving from Jeff Dunham and Walter http://bit.ly/6lQ69P # Powered by Twitter Tools
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