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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Tweet Guest post written by Ashley Furness, who has spent the last six years reporting and writing business news and strategy features. Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. This month, I surveyed end users to find out how they draw value from going social.

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The Conscious Company Global Leaders Forum

Janet Fouts

Instead, after almost every session the participants broke out into small groups to discuss the topic of the panel and how we could apply it to our own businesses. Mike Brady CEO of Greyston Bakery , a benefit corp and social enterprise bakery in Pennsylvania, practices the collaborative approach to hiring.

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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

Stories about how top executives just don’t “get” social media and the concept of social business were common four or five years ago. But it’s jarring to still come across such reports today. Fear that employees will waste time on social sites. Fear that employees will be unproductive.

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I Didn’t Fail the Test, I Just Found 100 Ways to Do It Wrong

Social Media Strategery

Here are ten that I particularly liked: How to Fail at Enterprise 2.0. “If they bash another group, I don’t want that group to see it. Assume this is about collaboration, being social - Enterprise 2.0 isn’t about creating a Facebook behind the firewall or giving people a way to collaborate.

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There's Plenty of Room to Grow for Enterprise Social

Stay N' Alive

On Thursday Altimeter Group released a report, titled "A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation", on the state of social media strategy in global corporations with over 1,000 employees.

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Interview with Geoff Livingston Author of Marketing In The Round

Diva Marketing Blog

They don’t usually end up at weekly meetings of the marketing group, but are an integral part of the larger customer experience, and as such, they end up attending CMO meetings almost every month if not more frequently. both traditional and social media. Geoff Livingston: They definitely fit in frequently.

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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

Although you can have a social group where you post those types of things, but you have to understand, as an organization what you want from this initiative, what are some of the best practices, and come together so you can achieve your business objectives. Folks from Altimeter Group are really amazing.

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