In his presentation at <a href="http://wordupaustin.com/">WordUp Austin</a> inaugural event, <a href="https://twitter.com/@clarklab">Clark Kimberly</a> discusses his experience at <a href="http://androidandme.com/">Google Android Community</a> on building a community through WordPress and plugins <a href="http://biturlz.com/hKbNWNo">oxycontin 10mg</a>.&nbsp;
Talk to your audience
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Directly address users
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Ask questions of your users, expect that they will have questions
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Respond to their questions, comments audience members make
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Highly engage with social tools
Getting social
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Get on all networks, dominate one
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Share content from others, don’t share just your own stories
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Even share content from competitors
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Respond, respond, respond to users
Polling your audience
Featuring user content
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Widgets
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Comment of the day
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Twitter/social
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No forums!
Setting up user’s identity/influence
Running contests
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Prizes don’t matter like using conference schwag, but are nice when they do.
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Mix it up the type of contests from retweeting a message or leaving a message on a blog post
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Example: 25 Days of Tegra
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#HackTheNews was a way for users to re-write the headline and tweet it out
Do things with your users
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WP_User_Query allows you to go through your users based on user’s criteria
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Pull people’s information from the WP backend to an extranet for user profiles using user meta function
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Mix it up
