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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

It requires people to actually communicate — processes and governance models that help shape employee behavior online — and technology to facilitate collaboration across the organization. The foundation of a fully collaborative social business, whether for a small or large firm is the company’s most valuable asset, its people.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. Get used to people copying and pasting the content off the wiki and into a Word document, turning on track changes, and then sending you the marked-up Word document for you to “take a look at&# before uploading to the wiki.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

They identified a need to bring people people together in a collaborative environment. They researched the latest collaborative software. They issued memos to their users telling them that this collaborative tool that they’ve all been clamoring for is now available. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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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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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

I worked with one team who had been investing a considerable amount of time in scanning the media for coverage related to their client, copying and pasting those articles into an MS Word document, formatting them consistently, uploading that one file to a shared drive, and then emailing their team with the location of the latest media coverage.

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The role of social media in managing projects for brands

Socialmedia.biz

They need sharing and collaboration tools, they might also need virtual workspaces that can accommodate real-time interaction. Another one is Yammer. A product of Microsoft, Yammer is a social network for employees, assigned a project. The teams need to communicate with each other. It makes task management simple.

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