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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. Augment transparency, accountability and communication efficiency. Several companies responded to this story saying the platform was more “of a distraction” than a value driver.

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Do you need to own your community?

Jeff Esposito

A little while back I was catching up with my friend Jim Storer of the Community Roundtable before we shared a panel about social customer support. In our prep, Jim and I continued our on-going disagreement on whether a company needs to own the platform that they are keeping a community on.

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Where Most Got Social Business All Wrong, Including Me

Convince & Convert

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. And many times, it’s fixing disjointed content and community management practices. Enterprise collaboration for the sake of enterprise collaboration is silly.

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27 essential social media manager interview questions (and answers)

Sprout Social

This will inform which social platforms the candidate has experience with, what industries they’ve worked in and if they’re used to working with large or small follower bases. Ideally, you want to know that the interviewee has experience in the platforms you use. Communication ?Writing Community Management ?Strategic

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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

It addresses the need to drive organizational change in an effort to shift employee behavior, communicate more effectively across job functions and geographies and tear down organizational silos. Companies need to first understand what it is they are trying to achieve before thinking about which technology vendor to deploy.

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B2B Social Media Gets Intimate

Social Media Marketing

In our rush to amass friends and followers, Rubel argues, we've assembled online social communities that are so loud and so constant, that it's become difficult to use them for more than mundane conversations. The early stage of most sales cycles is equally mundane.

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How to easily find customers on social media

Absolute PA

It starts with this: Make friends and be a valuable member of the community. I’ll say it again: Make friends and be a valuable member of the community. Research and find 2-3 active communities online. These can be Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, Twitter, Google+ or Instagram communities, niche forums.