If you don’t, it will be difficult for you to compete. You can’t do that and compete successfully. For example, my post yesterday on Facebook on its current decline and loss of vision is much different from what I am seeing in the reader about how to market on Facebook, and why Facebook still rocks. This is a prime example of where the social media marketing blogosphere let a vested interest blind it from covering a story with the journalistic precision. To successfully compete against individual bloggers you have to post at least three times a week. MORE >>

…words The personal weblog of Stephen P Smith Home The 6 Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best August 2nd 2010 Posted at Productivity 1 Comment Last month I was given the opportunity to get a sneak-peek at Laura Stack ‘s new book “ Super Competent &# (to be released on 9 August). The people who achieve their fullest potential are not simply competent; they’re SuperCompetent.&# Not Just another Productivity System Super Competent is not just another system that you have to learn in order to become wealthy and influential overnight. What is this RSS? MORE >>

It’s not difficult to find examples of sports teams using social media. There are plenty of case studies of sports leagues and teams using social media for marketing purposes - where are the examples of using social media to improve league and team collaboration? Disappointingly, a search for examples where teams, leagues, or college conferences are using social media to communicate and collaborate internally yields a much shorter, less relevant list. Wouldn’t that be better than relying on phone calls and emails to share this information? emails? Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

The real-estate industry, for example, trades on information asymmetries such as privileged access to transaction data and tightly held knowledge of the bid and ask behavior of buyers. Information hoarding within business units also can be a problem: many financial institutions, for example, suffer from their own failure to share data among diverse lines of business, such as financial markets, money management, and lending. In advanced-manufacturing sectors such as automotive, for example, suppliers from around the world make thousands of components. Talent is one of them. MORE >>

Madison Electrical Products is a small, privately held manufacturer that services the electrical contractor marketplace and is one example of doing social media correctly. When he bought the business, Madison was considered a third-tier player that competed on price. This is just one example of what a smaller company can do if they are committed to an ongoing program using social media. I always like stories of the little guys who take on the 800# gorilla and win the battle. One of the benefits of social media is you don’t have to be an 800# gorilla to succeed. MORE >>