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

Social Media Strategery

Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm 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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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

How did I go from annoying everyone around me by my incessant yammering about social media to the guy who grows increasingly annoyed when people talk about everything social media will do? My goal is never to get someone blogging or Tweeting – that's just the means to help them understand how to better communicate and collaborate.

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Where is Your Audience?

Stay N' Alive

I have an entire circle of hundreds of LDS friends (I work for the LDS Church ) on Google+, and their conversations are much different than the Circle I have of Tech bloggers and influencers. For instance, at work many of use use Yammer to associate with other coworkers. At the same time I have circles that aren't even on Google+.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

Let’s take a look at the many hats of the internal community manager: Referee – When someone posts a link to a political article and the conversation is starts to devolve into partisan name-calling and vitriol, guess who gets to be the one to steer the conversation back toward professionalism and healthy debate?

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

In collaboration with Chris and a few other team members, we pitched the idea to our leadership as a low-cost, low-resource opportunity to network, collaborate on some of the tough issues facing our team, learn from other members of the team, and have an opportunity to get involved with the rest of the team beyond their individual project teams.

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Building a Social Business

Koka Sexton

I ran the social selling track and held panels with customers and companies like Sprout Social , Extole , Yammer Cornerstone OnDemand and others. If your sales people are not actively listening to their territory for questions and conversations about their industry they are missing opportunities. Building a social business.

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Google+ for Apps - the Perfect Competition for Yammer and SalesForce Chatter

Stay N' Alive

I've always suggested that the business collaboration space is a very saturated one. There's perhaps the most popular one - Yammer , and then there are solutions such as SalesForce Chatter , MangoSpring , Cisco Quad , Confluence , and even build-your-own solutions such as Status.net. The Power of Circles. Sound familiar?

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