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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. Social enterprise vendors have invested heavily in social and adaptive intelligence.

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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

Fear that employees will waste time on social sites. Employees have been finding ways to distract themselves, and others, and generally waste time at work, for pretty much as long as groups of human beings have worked together. Those determined to waste work time will do so regardless of social media policy.

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

Social Media Strategery

You mentioned doing more charity work, especially with the GovLoop Kiva group. I’m particularly interested in businesses like Tom’s Shoes and Honest Tea that are social enterprises and have a focus on doing good and giving back. link] Three articles, examples for Government 2.0 | pisola [.] Takes two seconds.

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How These Small Businesses Are Growing Sustainably

Buffer Social

” She pushed back against convention and decided to build partnerships with social enterprise bakeries instead, even though that would slow the company's growth. Zingerman’s , for example, hasn’t taken the traditional model to growth but has scaled regardless.

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Social Pros 22 – Evan Hamilton, UserVoice

Convince & Convert

For example, like changing everyone’s email to Facebook, you know, sometimes it’s just easier to just do something like that than it is to spend 3 months planning on how to do it. billion dollars later, Microsoft is playing in the social enterprise space alongside of salesforce.com and Oracle and others.

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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

The example he pointed out was the recent announcement that Twitter made that they’re going to be using their tweet buttons to track their users and determine content relevance. I can’t wait until social stops being a word, “social business,” “social enterprise,” and it’s just business.

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23 (More) of the Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Resources of 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Frequent best-of honoree Kristi Hines provides an outstanding list of general social media tips (e.g., “Cross promote your social profiles. Look for opportunities to add links from one social profile to others. Five Ways Social is Shaping your B2B Customers by LinkedIn Today. Social Media ROI Measurement Guides.