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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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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

This episode features Maria Ogneva of Yammer. Before we get rolling, I will thank our sponsors, which includes my company, Argyle Social , developers of social media management software used by all of today’s brightest social marketing stars, including our guest today, Maria Ogneva from Yammer. Maria Ogneva, Yammer @themaria.

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Social Networking to Advance Your Career

Janet Fouts

Global Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems. Takeaways from the discussion were many, and largely about developing a professional brand, creating real networks of people who are interested in the same topics, staying in good standing in the community and supportive of others in their extended networks. LaSandra Brill Sr.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 systems from a thing of work to a thing of play. Obvious one is Community Moderator for those that volunteer community admin duties. Mores the pity. Newbie for newcomers.

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Building a Social Business

Koka Sexton

I ran the social selling track and held panels with customers and companies like Sprout Social , Extole , Yammer Cornerstone OnDemand and others. Understanding how your community is consuming and more importantly sharing that content is skill level two.

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Taking the Next Step: Going From a Grassroots Enterprise 2.0 Community to an Official One

Social Media Strategery

As your grassroots community takes the next step to becoming an official one, what challenges will you face? Way back in 2008, microblogging and enterprise collaboration platform Yammer launched at TechCrunch50. Official communities that began with large budgets are struggling to maintain their success with diminished resources.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Assuming, however, that you are not using some sort of @ptbarnum system to generate thousands of followers). link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out.

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