1. Start a Blog, and update it daily if possible.
Starting a blog is the best way to begin building your online community. Setting up a blog can be as easy as signing up for a free account at www.wordpress.com; and if you want, for around 7 dollars you can buy a personal domain through a [...]

1. Don’t just sign up for a Twitter or Facebook account
Creating a community doesn’t happen overnight, so certainly it wouldn’t happen within the fifteen minutes it takes to set up a Twitter or Facebook account. Follow, be followed, earn respect, and become friends with each and every person in your community.

Google is entering the social media realm, (oh wait, they already have and now it’s just becoming news). If you type Google Social into any search engines’ news section you will come up with thousands of articles harping on the release that Google is going social. How are they doing this? Well, [...]

10. You become part of a large community of like-minded people, that all share a common interest.
9. Conversations are bound to happen, and you don’t really want to piss the wrong person off.
8. Anytime you like someones opinion, or enjoy something they said, you can ask them to be your friend.
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Social Media is a term that has been used way too much, yet way too few actually know what it means. Social Media is not a metaphor for Twitter, or even Facebook, it is a term that works best as a simile for community, as in ’social media is like one big stadium of [...]