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Are you overlooking brand advocates right in front of your eyes? Now that most brands have adopted basic social marketing strategies, marketers are looking to leverage brand advocates to tell their brand's story in social channels. But how do you empower your employees to become the kind of advocates who will see your brand as an...[read more]

 Legal issues employers face as a result of social media in the workplace discussed in this interview: Social Media Discrimination - Discrimination on Social Media with adverse employment impact that could lead to a hostile work environment. Issues concerning managers and employees such as age discrimination, settlements and...[read more]

Topics Discussed: How is HR changing to accommodate social media in the workplace.Challenges of managing social media usage among staffers at Applebee’sOvercoming the operational challenges social media at workBusiness case for HR to manage social media usage in the workplaceSocial media compliance in an era of increased government...[read more]

     Interested in learning more about video and content marketing? Join us in Atlanta at The Social Shake-Up! We'll be discussing this topic and more in the panel "All Content is Social: Multiple Screens and The Consistent End-to-End Consumer Experience" on Tuesday September 17th. Use the code SMTLIVE and enjoy...[read more]

What makes you or your colleagues more qualified than the next Facebook user to advise or execute on social media? A relatively new communication tool, which is itself built on the ability of of just about everyone to participate, creates challenges when it comes to defining expertise. How can you keep learning in order to stay ahead in...[read more]

Sodexo is the world’s 20th largest employer, processing roughly 20,000 job applications each month. They started using social media for recruiting in 2007 to develop deeper relationships with the talent community by communicating with them on their preferred social network. Social Media Recruiting Topics Discussed:  The...[read more]

Certain individuals have always wielded outsize influence on the decision-making of others in their social groups, but not until the age of the social web have there been systems to easily quantify and measure social influence - rather, it was subject to perceptions about credibility and personal brand. But now gut feelings are being...[read more]

Topics discussed include: Legal risks of identifying and screening candidates with social media.Keeping candidate research legal.When to review a candidates social media profiles.Legislative trends in social media governance.Findings of the Sources of Hire 2013 Report by Gerry Crispin and Mark MehlerBest practices for Twitter...[read more]

ROI can be the three scariest letters in social media. You know that there are benefits social media activity that justify the cost, but how do you convince the C-suite? The answer depends on what you’re trying to achieve with your social efforts. Are you trying to use social as a sales channel, or create brand awareness and drive low-...[read more]

Watch the webinar replay:Download the slides: Evaluating Your Social Listening Tools: Is Your Social Media Analytics Solution Working for You? | Webinar Replay from Social Media TodayAbout the webinar:Sponsored by You're now generating mountains of data with your social media efforts and your team has been producing actionable reports...[read more]

Does your company culture put the customer first? A customer focus should be front and center in all business decisions, and without the full buy-in of the C- suite, that becomes almost impossible to achieve in any meaningful way. Join us as we talk about the challenges to and the benefits of building the support and authority of your...[read more]

How can you keep up with innovation in customer engagement to outpace the competition? Like many companies, you have probably taken steps in the past few years to take part in the new type of two-way communication that now happens online between companies and customers. And you may have put in place technology that monitors and reports...[read more]

There was a time when marketing was all about selling and pushing out the company line. But with the rise of social media, marketers have replaced old models of company-customer communication with vital new models, based on conversation, interaction and collaboration. And the most successful have found the key to keeping that connection...[read more]

The Wall Street Journal has found that 41% of small business owners believe LinkedIn has more value for them than Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube combined. Are you successfully channeling that value to your business with your LinkedIn presence?When you use LinkedIn, you’re representing your whole company. Are you being seen as a thought...[read more]

While Salesforce Marketing Cloud, which bundles Radian6, Buddy Media and Social.com, isn’t free, in the quest for thoroughness, I decided to include their offering in this evaluation to check in and see what’s new over there. Radian6 is the monitoring and engagement module, Buddy Media is the publishing platform and Social.com (...[read more]

  57% of all social media advertising dollars are invested with Facebook. But if you’re only using Facebook to advertise, you’re missing much of the value of the world’s largest social network. On the other hand, if you simply use a free profile page, you may be missing opportunities. And if you’re not measuring everything,...[read more]

Most of the free Google Reader alternatives in the market are focused on providing users with social filters to discover great content. Netvibes has been there and done that. They’re more interested in helping users finding meaning through context.Netvibes will give you their news reader for free. But if you want their analytics, you’ll...[read more]

Five years ago, a person exclusively charged with managing a company’s social media strategy was a novelty. Today, social has a reason to be integrated into every department. Customers don't differentiate between your advertising, sales, or service teams when they're communicating with your company. But how do you develop a consistent...[read more]

To make sure our online Social Media Training Bootcamp stays timely, I spoke to social media marketing analyst Brian Solis about his new book What’s the Future of Business – Changing the Way Business Create Experiences, which redefines the key elements of an effective social media strategy. If you haven’t read it yet, the new book...[read more]

You know enough about social media to know that you need help managing it - Does your social marketing require full-time staff on your team, or can you assign your social network management to an outside agency? There is no shortage of agencies that will tout their expertise, but you might question whether they will understand and commit...[read more]