Web Hosting Talk mentioned on GigaOm this weekend

Web Hosting Talk got a great mention today in a post on Giga Om about ways to cut startup costs.

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Controlling chaos: Three recommendations for managing your brand in the social media

Sometimes we forget how much media has changed. Before the days of the Internet and social media, brands used to be able to spoon feed their message. They only needed to concern themselves with a couple of media channels — three network TV stations, a handful of national newspapers, and maybe a few trade magazines. The message was easy to control. It was neat, clean, and sanitized. Well, my friends, those days are gone.

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Concerning community member conversion

Dennis, the iNET community coordinator, and I had an interesting conversation this morning regarding member conversion rates and our online communities. Conversion rate is a metric that we watch pretty closely here, being the percentage of unique non-members visitors to one of our online message board communities that become members in a one-month period.

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Emerging patterns in social networking applications

It doesn’t seem like many web sites are built these days that don’t have some “social networking” aspect. With so many social networks being created, an inevitable echo-chamber of features has formed. These common-thread features are being woven into patterns that will ultimately define what social networking sites are and how to identify them.

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