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Where Most Got Social Business All Wrong, Including Me

Convince & Convert

Regardless of how you define social business; it’s hard to argue that organizations today must change if they want to stay relevant and competitive. Deploying internal communities using software platforms like IBM or Jive just because your competitors are doing so is a complete waste a time, money and resources.

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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

He writes the Britopian blog, and wrote the new social business book, Smart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media in Your Organization (available July 26). This means that executives must not only talk about changing the organization but exemplify the behaviors that really do facilitate and practice change.

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27 essential social media manager interview questions (and answers)

Sprout Social

Organization and time management. Communication and collaboration. Communication ?Writing Community Management ?Strategic Organization and time management questions. The following questions get to the heart of interviewees’ penchant for organization. How do you stay organized and prioritize daily tasks?

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B2B Social Media Gets Intimate

Social Media Marketing

Up to now, one the biggest challenges that social media posed was forcing organizations to decide just how open they should be. But those parts of the organization which were not customer facing, or which did not interact with outside entities, were pretty much sheltered from realizing similar gains.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? It is similar to the education I hear going on about length of time to get results via organic SEO. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

The guys installing your organization’s blogging software don’t realize that the “Add a Picture&# button doesn’t work because they don’t have blogs. Now, take a look at the official support areas for WordPress , Telligent , MindTouch , Jive or any of the dozens of social software vendor sites.

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How to Write Amazing Product Reviews

ProBlogger

A product review that is written by someone who understands the product inside-out will organically attract more attention than one written by someone who’s just stumbling around. I always include a little snippet that simply says “If I’ve written something that doesn’t quite jive, just let me know and I’ll research it and get it fixed”.

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