Forum One is really excited to announce that we've partnered with the Word of Mouth Marketing Association. WOMMA is a coalition comprised of hundreds of top marketers who are learning how to encourage and amplify the natural phenomenon or word of mouth marketing, while respecting and protecting its honesty and integrity. Forum One's Online Community Research Network (OCRN) and WOMMA share common interests in that our goals are to build networks of professionals who collaborate on best practices, standards and metrics, and share knowledge among the professionals in our industries. In our partnership, we will promote each others professional groups, events, we will partner on industry research, and we'll cohost a webinar on a social media marketing topic in 2010.

Bill Johnston is currently attending WOMMA's Summit 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. The Summit feature experts from a variety of industries, who will discuss best practices, emerging trends and offer insight into how to word of mouth marketing buzz that extends beyond social media. If you aren't there this year, you can keep up on the buzz and conversations by following the Twitter stream #womma.