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The Importance of Company Personas in Social Media

Jeff Esposito

Company personas – a phrase that holds much controversy and confusion definitely has an impact on your purchasing decisions. All three kinds of personas, if used wisely, offer opportunities for the company to strengthen their brand. There are many details to consider when creating a persona for your company. Best made products?

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It’s time to put an end to siloed views of social media.

Jeff Esposito

Social media is not an infant anymore; it’s something companies are starting to take seriously. Social Recruiting – How many candidates were hired via social media and how much this reduced recruiting costs. With that said, can we agree to end this foolish p **g-contest about social media ownership?

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Do you need to own your community?

Jeff Esposito

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. In this model, companies can tie members of their community to their database and know which of their customers or members are participating and what they are talking about. What say you?

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What does social media success look like?

Jeff Esposito

As social media continues to gain more traction throughout companies, practitioners in the space will be asked the tough questions about the business value of their efforts in the space. The reason for this is that they are a soft metric that by themselves mean nothing to the executive suite at your company. Image - alter1fo.

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Facebook’s the crack and we’re all greedy junkies

Jeff Esposito

Is it updates from companies (or pages your friends manage) or is it something that ties into your social sphere? or updates from professional groups and companies that I love (Under Armour, Samuel Adams and Jimmy Fund) in my feed. What do you want to see when you come on the platform? Less can be More.

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Five for Friday – Oktoberfest is a brewin’

Jeff Esposito

IBM: Companies need more community managers – this is a great look into the way that IBM sees social evolving and how businesses will need to adapt to continue to be successful. Scooby Doo Named Healthiest Cartoon – as a new dad, I am super excited to see that my favorite cartoon has been named the healthiest cartoon for kids to watch.

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Five for Friday 12.10.10

Jeff Esposito

This is especially vital for companies who rely on social networks as their broadcast platforms. And if you are whining about the cost of hosting your own blog, the price shouldn’t be prohibitive as you can do it for under a $100 a year if you wanted to, which breaks down to $8.33 per month.

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