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• 12 September 2008

  Case Study: Mamapreneurs on Growing Membership Site for Business Moms 

  Award-winning public relations professional and former broadcast journalist, Marlynn Jayme Schotland created Mamapreneurs Inc. to provide support and networking opportunities to business owners who are also mothers. Based in Portland, Oregon, the organization reaches out online to “mamapreneurs” anywhere in the world. Here, Marlynn talks about strategies for growing an active membership web site, and shares her top 5 tips for online community building. Read More... Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 1:07 PM by Rebecca | 3 Comments Filed under: nptech, online community, Social networking, case studies, membership, websites, Membership management

• 24 April 2008

  Dilbert.com Goes Web 2.0  

  How would you define Web 2.0 ? Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining it, but why use words alone to explain such a complex idea, when you can show-and-tell? Try this: Flip open just about any North American newspaper to the comics page... then take a look at Dilbert.com . The companion website to Dilbert , Scott Adams' widely syndicated cartoon chronicle of office politics, has just relaunched in Web 2.0 style. And this is not simply a cosmetic change or a new website design -- the site Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:57 PM by Rebecca | 1 Comments Filed under: General News, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices, online community, Widgets, case studies, websites, Accessibility