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How Often Should A Forum Newsletter Be Sent To All Users?

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Mike W.

This question came up in response to the blog post from last week, “Keeping Forum Members Engaged With A Forum Newsletter”. The answer depends on the level of traffic of your forum and how often salient events occur that bear … Read More >

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Improving SEO For Forum Search Results

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Mike W.

In the screen cap below, you can see that Google sometimes displays additional information about links that link to a forum thread. Several years ago, Google announced that it would sometimes format forum search results to display the post count, … Read More >

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Social CRM, Content Marketing, And Forum Software

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Mike W.

Social CRM and Content Marketing are buzzwords (buzz phrases?) that are used with increasing regularity by social media experts. In this post, we examine both concepts and consider how forum software fits into this puzzle. Social CRM is defined as, … Read More >

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9 Best Practices To Defend Against Forum Spam

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Mike W.

It is difficult to defend against spammers because the most severe tactics make it more difficult for legitimate users to participate. That is why we strive to achieve a healthy balance between allowing users to converse freely and keeping spammers … Read More >

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Seven Reasons Why A Hosted Forum Solution Makes Sense For Your Company

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Mike W.

Ninja Post is a hosted forum solution. We host your forum in the cloud and integrate it with your site and URL. The end user can’t tell the difference because the experience is seamless. This approach represents a departure from … Read More >

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One Simple Way To Help Users Contribute To Your Forum

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Mike W.

Here’s a simple way to help users to contribute to your forum: Make the area to Log in or Sign up as obvious as possible It is very difficult to get users to contribute unless they’re signed in. While it … Read More >

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Forum Software And The Pixar Pitch

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Mike W.

In his book “To Sell Is Human”, which we mentioned in a post earlier this week, author Dan Pink describes something called the “Pixar Pitch”. He states that all Pixar movies follow the same formula: Once upon a time… Every … Read More >

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