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Patrick O’Keefe Offers Community Management Expertise On SME-TV

October 2, 2008 · Comments

With companies and brands clamoring around the buzzword of “community” recently, it only makes sense they would be looking for experienced advice on building and managing them. While I would certainly welcome all comers, there are a good number of community experts out there. One is Patrick O’Keefe of the iFroggy Network, who has been managing online communities since 2000. I caught up with O’Keefe for an episode of SME TV at Blog World & New Media Expo recently, where we both served on a panel together.

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Discussion Forums – An Oft-Overlooked Element of Social Media

September 10, 2008

To a certain extent, the social media crowd is guilty of being addicted to the next new, shiny toy.  If you’re so inclined, simply keeping up with the latest web 2.0 toy tool of the month can be a huge investment of time and attention. 
However, in this particular post, I’d like to take a quick look at a [...]

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So You Want To Run An Online Forum?

April 18, 2008

It’s a fair point to say the online tool most responsible for the advent of social media is the forum or message board. Descendants of early bulletin board systems and USENET groups, the forum introduced the concepts of conversation and community to the Internet. As technology blossomed and more sophisticated methods of communications usurped forums [...]

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