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What Social Media Should Be…Collaborative

October 18, 2011 by Deanna Lawrence
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"Social media experts create engaging content and have adapted extremely well to the idea of influence and the need to motivate share-ability. Yes, social media offers advantages. Most notably, ease of convergence across platforms, but can social media support loyalty simply through engagement?" [read more]

Social Business and A Culture of Enablement

October 18, 2011 by Matt Ridings
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"A perfect storm is taking place where economic, societal, and technological factors will no longer abide a business which decides to 'wait this one out'. The scales have tipped to the point that the effort and risk of large scale change no longer outweigh the benefits. Enter Social Business." [read more]

Social Learning through Communities : Are we wasting time?

August 8, 2011 by Khalid Raza
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"The fact is that the measure of a community's value to the stakeholders is very contextual and should not govern the overall working of a community. Community is aimed at collaboration and let it be - the measurement or value doesn’t work everywhere. What needs to be looked at is who is there? Are the right people engaged? Is the focus at the right level?" [read more]

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What Social Media Can Learn From American Idol

June 6, 2011 by LaRae Quy
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The new judges on American Idol showed what happens when brands are humanized. The American Idol brand has regained a heart and soul. Can you say the same about your brand? [read more]

Can Coke Start A Trend To Make Inspiration A Form Of Co-Creation?

May 3, 2011 by Rohit Bhargava
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Coca-Cola partners with the rock band Maroon 5 in a social experiment to create a new song in 24 hours. Fans watch a live stream of the band working on a new song in the studio and contribute to the brainstorming process in real time via a Twitter screen broadcast live to the band. [read more]

Knowledge Management: Creating a Social Intranet Where Employees Can Learn

April 11, 2011 by Elizabeth Lupfer
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Collaboration has become more than just a hot topic. It's now the primary focus for companies who are seeking to tap the power of social media technologies for their organizations. The movement of the social business is progressing so rapidly, that it leaves a lot of companies scratching their heads more often than coming up with real executable strategies. When companies approach me and say they are struggling with getting support for collaborative technologies, my question back is always: Define your goal without using social media buzzwords. Simplify your thoughts and return to focusing on the business goal you are ultimately trying to achieve. And what does collaboration bring us? Knowledge management. The ability for your employees to learn from each other. [read more]

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Social Media Tools Can Be Used In The Enterprise

December 3, 2010 by Ron Shulkin
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One of the best applications of social media is the collaborative tools in the pursuit of idea collection and enhancement. Incremental improvements that produce quick wins along with Breakthrough Innovation that can sustain an organization are all benefits of using social media within the enterprise. [read more]

SocialDevCamp: Marketers Working with Developers for Social Solutions

August 3, 2010 by Caleb Gardner
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As a marketer, the appeal of SocialDevCamp Chicago is in its uniqueness. Let's face it: if you're interested in social media in any capacity, there are no shortage of industry events to attend. But there are few that offer the opportunity to network with business executives and developers alike. [read more]

A Socially Networked Company Makes for a More Human Workforce

July 31, 2010 by Elizabeth Lupfer
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For business, one of the biggest and most under-realized advantages to integrating social networking tools is its ability to humanize a corporate workforce beyond just the typical four walls of a cubicle or office. Without social networking tools, companies risk problems not being resolved, ideas becoming stagnant and employees feeling underutilized or underappreciated. So, if you're a company wondering how you can unify your global workforce, social technologies are an excellent step to building a more collaborative, productive and HUMAN workforce. [read more]

Leveraging Your Social Media Assets Inside the Company: Webinar Archive

June 1, 2010 by Robin Carey
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Many businesses today are learning the incredible value of interactive social media tools when it comes to interacting with customers and prospects. But how deeply have these lessons penetrated? Are they being applied within the enterprise as well as externally? [read more]

Lessons from the recession: Customer Service Spending Needs to Increase in Social Media and Field Service

May 21, 2010 by JoeHughes
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One of the cool things about working in Customer Service CRM is that the landscape is always changing-always something to learn and do better. Over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in the phenomenon of social media and the effect it is having on customer relationships and how companies interact with their end-... [read more]

Social Media is the Glue of Innovation

April 27, 2010 by Braden Kelley
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Social media serves an incredibly important role in innovation. Social media functions as the glue to stick together incomplete knowledge, incomplete ideas, incomplete teams, and incomplete skillsets. Social media is not some mysterious magic box. Ultimately it is a tool that serves to connect people and information. I'm... [read more]

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Businesses adoption of social media requires a paradigm shift

April 26, 2010 by Tullio Siragusa
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Social Media is only successful because of the human need for active participation in it's own fate.  During the agricultural age, people mostly listened to the religious leaders and their fate was not in their hand, in fact anyone who tried to take a stance was murdered, Jesus and Socrates style.  During the industrial age,... [read more]

If Every Company is a Media Company…Then Who Owns Social Media?

April 20, 2010 by Don Bulmer
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Answer: Everyone! Social media has evolved significantly from its roots in marketing and corporate communications to the point that it should no longer be viewed as merely a function or a discipline within a company.  In a business context, social media is no longer just a destination or a set of tools and features. ... [read more]

Thought Leadership — A New Social Currency

April 14, 2010 by Don Bulmer
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Social media is a tremendous environment for B2B companies to establish competitive advantage through compelling thought leadership. In a social environment, thought leadership allows companies to frame and stimulate conversation and collaboration around important and sometimes complex ideas and real-world business and... [read more]

Collaboration Is More Important Than Ever: Overcoming Barriers To Adoption

April 12, 2010 by Luis Suarez
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Last Friday, my good friend Jack Vinson put together a rather good blog post where he was reminding us all how crucial collaboration has become for all businesses and knowledge workers out there. He actually references a couple of rather interesting blog entries that reflect some more on the paramount role of collaboration in today's... [read more]

Enterprise Social Strategy Begins With Discovery

April 7, 2010 by Vanessa DiMauro
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Starting a strategic social media plan can be overwhelming to a mid-to-large sized company. There are a few big questions that often cause organizational paralysis...the most daunting of which is "where do we begin?" followed by "what's happening that we don't know about?" But knowledge is a catalyst to action. And, as with the... [read more]

Enterprise 2.0: It's Still All About People

April 7, 2010 by PhilSimon
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I have spent most of the last year researching emerging trends for The Next Wave of Technologies. While it's a very big book covering quite a few technologies, for now suffice it say that we have entered an exciting time with regard to IT. It's obvious to me that, technology-wise, organizations can do pretty much whatever they want.... [read more]

Staying Under the Corporate Umbrella in the Midst of the Social Media Storm

April 3, 2010 by Elizabeth Lupfer
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It's raining social media. I LOVE it! And I absolutely love that small to large corporations have really started to see the value in social media. I've seen and been approached by many companies who are just on the verge of judiciously implementing the use of social technologies internally as well as externally as an extension of their... [read more]

Social Media and the Employee Life Cycle

April 2, 2010 by Trish McFarlane
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The employee life cycle is a hot topic for management gurus. Google it and you'll see. There are articles upon articles out there that tell you the steps of the employee life cycle (the 4 steps, the 12 phases, and so on, and so on). I don't want to discuss or debate that. What interests me is how social media can potentially affect an... [read more]

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