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Rest in Peace, Social Media Ninjas

Social Media Strategery

Instead of talking about the number of members of your Yammer network, talk about how that community has positively impacted your organization’s workforce. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Seth W. Start talking about social media for what it is – a set of tools that people with real professions use to do their jobs.

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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

He writes the Britopian blog, and wrote the new social business book, Smart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media in Your Organization (available July 26). Guest post by Michael Brito , Vice President at Edelman Digital. Building a business is easy. Start with an idea.

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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

This episode features Maria Ogneva of Yammer. I’m joined by Jim Kukra l of Digital Book Launch. Last but not least, Jim, of Digital Book Launch. When Amazon.com IPO’d, they did nothing but sell books. Special Guest: Maria Ogneva, Yammer. Maria Ogneva, Yammer @themaria. Listen Now. How are you?

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Social Media for Training Departments in Companies

Laurel Papworth

The key points I covered: we can use social media internally to distribute (broadcast) our own training material, or we can use community tools to create the material right through to peer to peer training. Pedagogical studies show we learn more effectively from our peers than from exams, teachers or books.

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How to Apply Youtility to Internal Communication

Convince & Convert

This is the concept behind Jay’s book Youtility , and I believe it can be easily translated to help revolutionize the way the Internal Communication function achieves their goals. Communicating in the Age of Information Overload. Real life examples of Youtility (There are a ton more in Jay’s book.). Here’s how.

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Looking Back at My 2009 Social Media Resolutions

Social Media Strategery

I was rarely able to carve out an hour a day to read and comment on other blogs, discussion forums, online communities and books. We all face these competing priorities, but we also have to make community participation and professional growth a priority as well. In 2010, I hope that I’m able to turn this into reality.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. It also continues to be a reliable conduit for new visitors here at Convince & Convert.

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