In my experience using social media for marketing events works nicely, it could be great strategy.

The content you are going to create should be interesting and interactive so you may need to develop in-house interactive marketing team or hire a professional video makers.

Thinking to create our channel there to produce few interactive content. :)

12 seconds will take to view then how you can communicate with customers using that video? :)

I appreciate your insight about humanizing the content, thanks. : )

I agree, also something that can create personal touch..

I think they should also disable account to those who are selling their accounts.

You could find few gaming sites which are especially designed for kids, I would suggest to keep away kids from violent games.

Also those gaming system are quite addictive which entice the users to buy the full version. :)

Not tried but I think twitter system is advance enough to block spammers.

I hope this could be helpful; http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/new-blogger-importer/

Depends on how many blogs you can manage, some time it is difficult to maintain the frequency of posts and keep all of them updated.

Yea, but at least you should show your responsiveness by just telling them "thanks for following!

I don't think Facebook ads are cost effective because the ads are generated following keywords listed in users profile and their “interests” field.

To measure return on conversation in social media is massive challenge, I hope you'll need key performance indicators for each module to track the conversation like if you've developed few apps for...

I hope social media and CRM both will add value to customer relationship.

Depends on how much the site will generate traffic and how much time it take to gain popularity.

If you use a combination of tools it will avoid chances for missing cache.

You can also use Google alerts which will let you tracks the web for the topics you're interested in.

I agree with InsightsDigital, I think alternatively you should create a blog that should meet your objectives.

Search engine optimization is the prime factors if you would like to create your online presence, I think it should be the first step.

You can also check with http://www.sustainlanegreenadnetwork.com/ that has quite large green Ad Network.

You can try out twitter to streamline with mobile interface.

You can check with Piwik (http://piwik.org/) which is considered good alternative of google analytics.

I would suggest to start with free forum software such as PHPBB, once you get some 500+ memebrs and regular posts every day you can move to vBulletin.

I wish you success in your endeavors!

Organic search engine listing is great source of traffic, you should learn basic SEO techniques and optimize your site yourself.

I think you should check with wordpress plugin for chat system, hope this link would be helpful to you; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/chat

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You can also let the users choose the option whether they want to show their profile to non members?

Very basic question which you can find with simple search in google, better if you've asked "How do you use your social networks"? :)

Discuss about it in different SN sites/forums and blogs.

I think running contest might be effective if you've already user base, btw what type of website you're talking about?

Make new threads that can grab attention of people easily and share them in social bookmarking/networking sites.

Is that video community is on Youtube? if yes subscribe similar content producers as much you can, this will help you to generate traffic and as well comments.

Start few threads that can create debate or you can post a breaking news which can grab attention of people, possibly it will increase chances for getting comments easily.

It can benefit you, if you're active.

I think facebook could work well if you've build up strong network with many friends.

Check with bebo.com, pretty populated music community, that may help you.

Depend on your budget, I think Amazon gift certificates may be worked out.