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Do you need to be an Extrovert to be in Social Media Marketing?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Facebook Location Based Services Podcasting Social Media Social Networking Twitter Wiki. Tags: Blogging Communities Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0

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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 my own company's Intranet won any awards , we had people talking about how they enjoy skinny dipping on their profile. It doesn't work like that.

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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Direct Marketing Observations

What we have here is the full circle of social media; crowdsourcing, participation, sharing and invaluable input from peers, consultants and practitioners of what works-all for the benefit of quick internal corporate adoption. 1) Create a Social Media case study of who is talking about your company both in good & bad ways.

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. Metagovernment is alive and well. Meaning, short viral spiked events, then over.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

If you think that the enterprise-wide wiki you’ve been pushing to install is going to change the culture of your organization, think again. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. Crowdsource white papers and presentations! Crowdsource white papers and presentations!

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

Social Media Strategery

This blog, my presentations, my internal blog, my wiki pages, etc. Use you as an example – you’ve made some really good traction at your company with what you’ve actually accomplished, not with what your title is. This blog, my presentations, my internal blog, my wiki pages, etc. Powered by Wordpress.

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