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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

Worse, C-level executives who don’t use social media themselves are also much less likely to understand how to capitalize on the social media savvy and reach of their employees to benefit their companies. ” Expanding a company’s social presence through its employees’ networks requires some give and take.

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Staff Persona Avatars: Social Media, Big Data and Employer Branding

Laurel Papworth

It’s not big data [because it’s declarative not behavoural] but Big Data could be used to profile companies for me and candidates for you. After I had been working in Sydney for about 10 years, knew everyone in my industry and was pretty bored with what was frankly a kinda incestuous niche, I escaped and went to work in Jakarta.

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Social Networking to Advance Your Career

Janet Fouts

You can learn a lot about an industry and a company by doing searches and creating lists around your areas of interest. When your position changes within the company or a friend’s position changes, that’s a good time to reach out to people for recommendations and/or support them. Get to know who they are and who they follow.

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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. As I mention in the post the ROI of social media , building up to the different skill levels should be the goal of any company that wants to become a social business.

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Time for a Change

Social Media Strategery

For one, I never expected to still feel challenged after so long with one company; I never expected to have even half the opportunities that I’ve had here; I never expected to enjoy working hand in hand with our clients as much as I did; and most of all, I never expected to love working with the people here so much. What happened?

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. After all, you’re the advocate for the community, not a mouthpiece for the development team.

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Social Pros 16 – Jay and Eric Strike Back

Convince & Convert

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. You can be the other petulant 16 year old. Jay : Perfect, perfect, yes, the death of civilization is upon us. government, or Apple for that matter.

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