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How gamifying employee advocacy can boost your program’s success

Oktopost

Utilizing both can dramatically enhance engagement in advocacy programs, expanding participation and cultivating a community of passionate brand ambassadors. Strengthens community: Gamified advocacy fosters a positive work culture, promoting teamwork and collaboration among employees. If you don’t have the budget, that isn’t a problem.

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The Case for Active Users as Social Media Community Managers

Akamai Marketing

The Case For Active Users as Social Media Community Managers. While this seems like a no-brainer, you’d be surprised by how often companies who want to utilize social media choose someone to head the effort who never uses social media, or who use it rarely. . I’ve really been thinking about this lately. Why was this?

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Winners of Mashable Awards

Mindjumpers

Mashable Awards is made to recognize the best online communities and services, and it was hosted by comedian Baratunde Thurston. Best New Gadget: iPad. Most Promising New Company: PSGive.org. Companies Embrace Social Media. Tweet The 6th of January, Mashable held the event of Mashable Awards Gala.

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13 Ingredients in the Perfect Social Media Contest

Convince & Convert

With the competition for attention within social media at an all-time high, the struggle to keep “fans” and “followers” engaged with your company’s social outposts is real, and ongoing. But it’s not as easy as just tweeting “who wants to win an ipad!?” Community Management.

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Kiddie iPads, Headshot Fails and personal branding

Jeff Esposito

Little Tikes creates iTikes iPad toy range – so looks like toy companies have jumped on the hook ‘em young bandwagon set by the big tobacco companies. Dear Community Managers, don’t be hard on yourself, it’s your company culture that’s not ready to be “social” – are you a stressed out community manager?

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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. View more presentations from Laurel Papworth. The diagrams I used are on Flickr. Yammer for adhoc training and Q&A.

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How 2nd Screen Apps killed off Television Advertising – Social Media TV

Laurel Papworth

If you are a company looking to advertise would you advertise on the TV during the show’s ad break or on the iPad, smart device during the ad break? Everyone on Twitter and Facebook and Zeebox are shouting at the players, the contestants, through smart device 2nd Screen Apps on their iPads, Androids. Then the Ads come on.