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Social Media speeds Onboarding

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And what has been really interesting for me to see was the difference between organizations when it comes to things like social media. One of the things I was pleasantly surprised to find in the first few days was that Avaya has their own Yammer account within their firewall. So naturally I signed up and started sharing.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

You cannot possibly garden the wiki, write your blog posts, moderate all of the forums, stay active on Yammer, run your metrics reports and do everything else a community manager is asked to do by yourself. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. The same thing happens in an online community.

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference. To address this, we decided to use both Yammer and Adobe Connect , allowing chatting and live audio/video. Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)?

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

So, what do I tell these folks when they ask me why no one is reading their forum posts, commenting on their blogs, or editing their wiki pages? Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. Tell me what benefit I get from taking time out of my day to click over to your blog/wiki page/forum and read it. Cross-promote.

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Looking Back at My 2009 Social Media Resolutions

Social Media Strategery

I was rarely able to carve out an hour a day to read and comment on other blogs, discussion forums, online communities and books. Despite the availability of tools like hello.bah.com , Yammer , and instant messenger, email remains the least common denominator. support the write's unique point.It

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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. implementations of blogs, wikis, or forums not living up to the expectations of the technology?

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Grading Social Media

Social Media Strategery

But now, with social media such a huge part of public relations , advertising, marketing, sociology, and even biology , it’s becoming even more important that the next generation not only understands how to use social media, but how to use it for more than just organizing fraternity mixers or keeping in touch with your classmates.

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