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Major Social Media Acquisitions: 3 Must-Reads

Firebelly

Billion Yammer Buy, Microsoft’s Social Enterprise Strategy Takes Shape. By Colleen Taylor and Ingrid Lunden The Yammer deal also puts Microsoft further into the game of developing social media services specifically for enterprises, an area where companies like Oracle, Salesforce and IBM have been actively playing, too.

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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. Currently, her research focuses on various topics related to CRM software, sales, customer service and marketing strategy. Her work has appeared in myriad publications including Inc.,

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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

The fundamental barrier to embracing a social business strategy seems to come down to one word: fear. Marketing Strategy Social Media Marketing Chatter Cheryl Burgess Mark Burgess social business The Social Employee Yammer' marketing and HR). Fear of bad, or even unmeasurable, results. But whatever you do, start.

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Yammer asks: What's Happening at Your Company?

Bare Feet Studios

Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > News , Productivity , Social Media , Tech Tools > Yammer asks: What’s Happening at Your Company?

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For Social Business, Remember the 90-9-1 Rule

Webbiquity SMM

In their new book Social Business By Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company , authors Peter Kim and Dion Hinchcliffe examine real-world success stories of social networking use across organizations, from internal collaboration using tools like Jive or Yammer to HR recruitment to investor relations to customer-facing (..)

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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

How did I go from annoying everyone around me by my incessant yammering about social media to the guy who grows increasingly annoyed when people talk about everything social media will do? " What they need is strategy to help them solve whatever business problem they're looking to solve.

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Taking the Next Step: Going From a Grassroots Enterprise 2.0 Community to an Official One

Social Media Strategery

Way back in 2008, microblogging and enterprise collaboration platform Yammer launched at TechCrunch50. A week later, I became member #1 of the Yammer network at my old firm, a 25,000 person consulting firm with offices all over the country. What other strategies and tactics have been helpful in maintaining that sense of community?

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