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Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?

Waxing UnLyrical

Whether you want to go for coffee, meet a friend or keep yourself posted on your friends’ birthdays, Facebook is where today’s generation updates each other by sharing the minutest details of their lives on the platform. What do you think: will Facebook ever successfully bridge the gap between employers and employees?

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Attenzi – A Social Business Story

Waxing UnLyrical

Social business means so much more to me than a business on Facebook, a business that tweets, maintains a blog, and nurtures an enterprise social network. It’s a relatively short and easy read intended to help readers explore what social business means for their organization, marketplace, communities and career.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. If that were the case, Microsoft wouldn’t have dropped $1.2

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. Yeah, that’s going to be you.

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

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. 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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#measurePR Recap (July 2015): Internal Communications

Waxing UnLyrical

measurePR community member, Sarah Parker chimed in: Q2: Have a benchmark. To engage/motivate your internal community, you need to understand the ‘state of the union.’ I figured it made sense to put together a list for easy reference: Yammer. ’ #internalcomms #measurepr. Not always a good thing. Wunderlist.

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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

This episode features Maria Ogneva of Yammer. Read on for insights from Maria, and our Social Media Stat of the Week ( this week : are Facebook and Twitter like the Tortoise and the Hare?). Eric : He put a photo on Facebook this weekend, very proud that he had assembled his daughter’s bike. Listen Now. It was very funny.

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