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Attenzi – A Social Business Story

Waxing UnLyrical

Social business means so much more to me than a business on Facebook, a business that tweets, maintains a blog, and nurtures an enterprise social network. It’s a relatively short and easy read intended to help readers explore what social business means for their organization, marketplace, communities and career.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. Yeah, that’s going to be you.

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Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?

Waxing UnLyrical

Of course, this is why organizations often use platforms such as Yammer for employee engagement, creating internal or private social networks, as it were. With a keen interest in social media, she blogs regularly at In My Humble Opinion. other passions include singing (professionally trained for over a decade!), reading and traveling.

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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

Social Media Strategery

.” She went on to say that instead of talking about social media, social business, building communities and why your organization needs to use blogs, wikis, and microblogging, you should be talking about increasing sales, increasing productivity, and cutting costs. For you, building communities might be the goal.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. Deloitte, for example, pulls reports from Yammer to identify employees with high engagement and positive feedback on the platform. billion to replicate one of the biggest work distractors.

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm It doesn't work like that.

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#measurePR Recap (July 2015): Internal Communications

Waxing UnLyrical

measurePR community member, Sarah Parker chimed in: Q2: Have a benchmark. To engage/motivate your internal community, you need to understand the ‘state of the union.’ Experiment with blogging and writing outlets to start broadcasting your thoughts. ’ #internalcomms #measurepr. Not always a good thing.

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