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Social Media speeds Onboarding

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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. I immediately asked my entire team to join since I wanted us to post some discussion threads and get reaction from sales people on our upcoming programs.

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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. Do you have a space from where the conversation can continue after the event (wiki page, forum, blog, etc.)?

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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. Not only did I not use email less, I think I actually used it more often.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Buddypress forum karma points. If Twitter is working with Foursquare, why can’t Yammer and other social enterprise communication tools play with badges and points? Drupal (as used by Whitehouse) has a bunch of social scorecards – if you are considering running your intranet on Atrium, a possible addon?

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Grading Social Media

Social Media Strategery

I often surfing on this forum when I m free and I find there are so much good information we can learn in this forum! I often surfing on this forum when I m free and I find there are so much good information we can learn in this forum! How would you grade the use of social media in today’s college environment?

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