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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. In 2005, the company made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. And write in the first person.

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Get Your Audience to Work for You… and Thank You for It!

Kikolani

They’re sacrificing a little bit of their privacy to get the content you promised them – but that doesn’t go as far as we’d like it to. What’s more valuable to you, as a long-term business strategy: a reader who is happy to do their bit to build a community, or someone who just wants to suck you dry for what you can give them?

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Google Me – quick thoughts for and against…

The Way of the Web

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← The importance of experiencing your community How much to launch a new media brand or project? And whenever there are big rumours, the blogosphere rushes to comment. Google Buzz being shoe-horned into Googlemail, and the privacy uproar it created. That’s pretty much a summary so far.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. It took me 6 months to acquire a good amount of traffic and cultivate a community on my blog and the same goes for any new blogger. Thank you very much Tamar for introducing them to the blogosphere! by Tamar Weinberg on June 10, 2010 Share I started blogging at age 20.

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Gov 2.0: Taking a Look Back at 2009 | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

Companies must also uphold privacy laws. because the plaintiff’s wife learned about her husband’s infidelity directly from the online florist who, despite a privacy policy on its site, sent a card to their home thanking him for his business. Having a privacy policy or a social media policy is not enough.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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