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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. The end user immediately receives an alert that someone has referred to them in the news stream. Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business.

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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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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 ? Reply Tamar Weinberg August 26, 2010 at 9:27 am LOL, glad to hear that you liked the Captain Obvious reference, Claire! Want to self promote? Engage in dialogue. Participate and offer genuine feedback. BTW, love your Captain Obvious!

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Bloggers might be well served to understand that if I approach someone in the professional mainstream media with a story idea, there is no way that any self-respecting reporter would ever respond by trying to refer me to the advertising sales rep. My focus with this blog has always been community. This is part of the problem.

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103 Compelling Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2013 (and 2014)

Webbiquity SMM

More than 80% of B2B decision makers say they visit vendor-independent communities or forums, vendor-sponsored communities or forums, and LinkedIn at least monthly for business purposes. Almost 60% of all social media-referred traffic to B2B websites comes from just three networks: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. ( BizReport ).

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How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They know that I actually care about my community and that they’re not an audience. He currently serves as the community guy at Building 43. Participate in my site’s community. Do good, positive things for the community. For instance, I rarely talk about software.) They understand brevity. Do something interesting.