LinkedIn Answers Roundup: Topics on blogging and community building

What started off as a weekly pick of a popular question fromnbsp;LinkedIn Answers is now becoming a tough job of making our weekly pick with so many interesting questions popping up. So, this week, were featuring two questions from the blogging community along with annbsp;assortment of responses to the question itself. Interestingly, bothnbsp;these resulted in blog posts with the authors/respondents nbsp;point-of-view: * Robyn Tippins, Community Manager at MyBlogLog at Yahoo! says on her blog: Check out the responses, already, after 12 hours, to my question. Inbsp;came from my blog post and the rest all came from my 200-ish LinkedInnbsp;contacts. Is that typical?nbsp; Do people normally get this large of an answer tonbsp;a question or is it that this was just a great question that lots ofnbsp;people wanted to answer? Either way, very cool.nbsp; This will help me a great deal in my talk. Robyn, Ive had great responses the last few times I posed a question to my professional network (here and here). nbsp;Could the fact that you are a community manager have something to donbsp;with it? :) But, I digress. So heres the question that Robyn asked hernbsp;professional network on LinkedIn, while preparing for a talk shesnbsp;working on: Selected LinkedIn Answers: Floriana Mulazzi, Marketing and Communication Manager One of the most rewarded and most powerful blog and web community in Italy (and not only), is the Ducati Motor one.nbsp;Very engaging, sincere, honest, its been one of the first born innbsp;Italy and increased the success of the company since the early 2000. Itnbsp;is studied in the best economics universities as a successful casenbsp;study. Francois Gossieaux, Entrepreneur, marketing enthusiast, strategist amp; innovator eBay has a well documented case of successful customer communities in Germany. Intuit has well documented customer communities. Harley Davidson uses customer communities as part of their new product development very successfully. WebMD, CarSpace, Samsung, etc... Jake McKee, Founder amp; Lead Strategist at Ants Eye View Well, Im biased, but I really am impressed by the various communitynbsp;activities that LEGO has done and continues to do - from developingnbsp;relationships on existing fan sites to the multitude of activities onnbsp;LEGO.com for kids, to projects like LEGO Factory, etc. Macromedia used to be my shining example of how to engage yournbsp;consumers. I think the efforts have taken a hit post-Adobe merger, butnbsp;they seem to be trying to find themselves again. I think they do anbsp;great job overall of engaging users, much of it behind the scenes innbsp;the product development process. Lastly, I recently met with a friend from The Economist magazine -nbsp;theyre trying a HUGE amount of social/digital strategies to see how tonbsp;best marry print with web with social. Watch these guys - theyre notnbsp;getting enough recognition for the stunning amount of work theyrenbsp;doing. --- Karl Long, Web/Social Media Integration Manager at Nokia, writes on his blog: Someone on LinkedIn just posed this question “How can one make Blogs more enjoyable or What is that you do to maintain the popularity/readership of your blog?“.nbsp;Here are my thoughts on this, this may not be all that leads to anbsp;successful blog, but these are for me pretty essential ingredients:nbsp;Focus, Passion, and Originality. (to be continued next week) Its great to see how LinkedIn Answers is fueling the knowledge networknbsp;that revolves around us and mentioned above are just two such examples. Thenbsp;blog will explore similar questions from different categories on a weekly basis and you can check those posts outnbsp;under the Answers category on the blog. Leavenbsp;a comment if youve been impressed with any particular question onnbsp;LinkedIn Answers or if youd like us to feature any particular categorynbsp;of questions.