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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

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What we have here is the full circle of social media; crowdsourcing, participation, sharing and invaluable input from peers, consultants and practitioners of what works-all for the benefit of quick internal corporate adoption. What’s great about this list? Where are the conversations? Find them. not all SM is external.

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What Social Media Lesson Did Gap Learn?

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They decided to go from this… To this… Ouch… Without really knowing the full back story but having a good feel for when major retailers and companies crowdsource new ideas, I think it’s safe to say that Gap really didn’t reach out to its user base to find out what they might think. “ So. lesson learned?