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Challenges in Everyone in Your Company being Social

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In the last post called Just 4 People doing Social Media? we discussed how social media like email will eventually be in the hands of everyone in your organization. But in Social Media that approach wont work. The reason being is that each Social Media site has its own “norms” of behaviors that go with them.

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Why Sustainable Competitive Advantage is so 1990

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Because it causes companies to do a lot of dysfunctional things like just focusing on the bottom line. So the assumption that change is the weird thing and stability is the normal thing is something that causes a lot of companies to get taken by surprise. Tell us why sustainable competitive advantage really a failed notion these days?

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Social Media Basic Literacy Skills In the Nonprofit Workplace

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Source: Pew Internet and America Life Project: " Networked Workers " Study. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

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According to a study by Google (who came up with the ZMOT concept), before deciding whether or not to buy: 50% of shoppers used a search engine to get more information on a product or brand. So optimizing company websites for mobile is a no-brainer. 38% comparison shopped online. 36% checked out the brand/manufacturer’s website.

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What’s a Twintern anyway?

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I was shocked to learn that this company actually hired one of these Marketing Interns just to “Do Twitter for us” into a role they dubbed a “Twintern”. Holy Cow we must be in times of irrational exuberance with Social Media if that’s the case. OMG I almost fell off my chair! Go ahead call me old fashioned – I dare you!

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Creating Engagement in B2B Marketing

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s Social Media in Business study found that 60 percent of consumers believe they are already interacting with companies on the social Web. Nearly all participants — 93 percent — believe all companies should have a presence in social media. A recent Cone Inc.’s Send this page to Print Friendly.

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11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011

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Social Media Strategists will become Chief Customer Officers – ok so you know I am also @Avaya_Support on Twitter so perhaps this is a closet fantasy for me but it may just come true – perhaps not this coming year but in years to come. Startups like Payvment , and Alvenda will help companies large and small to open up shop in Facebook.

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