Saying It Social

JUNE 16, 2010

These can serve as personable conversation starters and help you identify ways that your products or services can meet that person’s needs. “According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence. if yes, please explain.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

My Blogroll. They develop a vision for propelling the company into a position as the industry leader in product quality and support. For instance, a manufacturing company cancels the development of a major new product, reduces the number of employees, and reorganizes. Ban Crackberries from Meetings? Types of Meetings.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Now that the spotlight is on, every time there is a sponsorship, a meeting or an event, eyebrows will go up. The power of events, ESPECIALLY B2b events, is undeniable and people are still attracted to them, computers and phones not withstanding, most of us prefer the company of human beings. This is a win-win situation for everyone.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Saying It Social

AUGUST 27, 2010

As I meet more and more business owners in and around the area I hear a lot of chatter about frustrations and confusion regarding what to measure and keep track of online. “According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 6, 2010

While there’s no shortage of resources for how to measure the ROI of social media, but unlike commercial companies, our government doesn’t use social media to make money or to sell products. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

My own ability to listen has given me story ideas , helped when dealing with journalists and been infinitely beneficial in pitch meetings. Mark as read Approve comment Representing companies as their PR specialist is an extremely important job, I can see what you mean about not just the average applicants making the cut.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 19, 2010

We have deadlines to meet, emails to write/respond to, projects to work on, management issues to take care of, errands to run, families to care for, and many many other things that we do on a daily basis. I know we’re all busy. When was the last time you came up with a new idea that wasn’t in your job description or SOW ?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Facebook crosses over audiences, so while I have some business "friends" an update about my company or a blog post that really got me fired up wouldnt make sense shared to mostly old school friends. Not because I dont like meeting people, but because family and work are a priority with me. Now for ME LinkedIn is strictly business.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The EAT ME Conundrum: Occasionally, a company who is jumping into social media will get lucky and land in the viral vortex. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Subscribe via Email Meet Tara Coomans Recent Posts Klout – What’s it all About? Strategies are created with tactical ingredients. Viral is good.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Writing 3-6 blog posts a week combined, for my site, PRBreakfastClub, my companys site and a top secret project Im working on has made me a better writer in my "day job." I genuinely enjoy meeting new people and finding out about them; so for me its not a "strategy," its just what I do. Or as you said, almost perfect!)

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

Meets the organization’s goals Your project needs to fall in line with your organization’s goals. Measurement If you aren’t measuring your progress, how do you know if you are successfully meeting your goals? Our community was now creating the bulk of our content. So pitching the merits of going paperless was a no-brainer.

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 29, 2010

He also has that rare ability to enthusiastically inform the uninitiated without ever being patronising’ You might not have heard, but my blogging absence coincided with some small computer and phone company launching some kind of computing device. Hence a post about what it could mean on the One Golden Square blog.

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The Way of the Web

JULY 14, 2010

companies you’ll definitely know). But it’s easy for me to meet up with them online and spend some time gaming (and occasionally chatting about general tech stuff in between). Obviously my network is self-selecting to an extent, but a quick scan of my friends includes: a couple of founders of significant start-ups (i.e.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Meeting people’s needs respects their time and builds confidence and trust–critical to meaningful engagement. Meeting people’s needs respects their time and builds confidence and trust–critical to meaningful engagement. link] Gwynne Great list, Steve. Really, who downloads them?) groceries, walmart, banks) etc.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The contents of this KM blog are my personal comments and do not reflect the official views of Hewlett-Packard Company.]. » Building networks, Selling KM, Meetings as KM behaviors, IBM in a KM shift, Super Crunchers. © 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Stan Garfields KM Book List. Stan Garfield. |

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 8, 2009

The software company I worked for as a Business Development Manager locating top partners and getting them to sell our products had to cut expenses. I was one of those expenses along with a few others in the company. Even large companies that were seen as golden jobs like at Google had to put people out.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

Development Social Media Why Social Media is Scary Sun, Jan 11, 2009 Best Of , Social Media As one of my company’s social media leads, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with a wide range of people about social media. Many companies still ban access to Facebook or LinkedIn on company time. Government 2.0

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I feel I already know the folks I’m meeting; typically a conversation starts off with, “Oh, you’re …!&# There’s no way – no way – I would have felt so much a part of that community if I hadn’t previously connected with many of the folks I meet IRL on social media. And that is very cool.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

Depending upon the level of executive sponsorship and participation – some companies will unfortunately take a long time to adopt social media and miss out on the benefits it represents today. Culture is important, but if we wait for companies to “become social&# before we introduce social tools, we’re just wasting time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

With others who address me as Jennifer or Dakash, I wonder if these individuals representing both small and large companies really realize that their lack of research reflects poorly on their clients. Sorry if this doesn’t appear to meet your needs. Some have gone as far as outing the companies who have trodden down this path.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. If your customers and prospects feel like your company is more human and actually cares about them, they’ll want to be part of it.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

Topix also works with the nation’s major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds. Topix LLC is a privately held company with investment from Gannett Co., NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune Company.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

With each and every one of these events, I always looking forward to meeting and learning from the Gov 2.0 Expo – Tell me who makes you successful ([link to post]) #g2e #gov20 #opengov – Posted using Chat Catcher du4 Great meeting you last week, bro-ha. Keep up the great work and let's stay connected.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone at home. Out of everyone, shouldn’t the development team, at least, be the biggest advocates of the very software they’re implementing?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

If you’re a junior employee who is sick and tired of being the gopher, of being tasked with doing nothing but web research, of not being invited to strategy meetings, DO something about it. Now, anytime anyone in my company searches the terms “social media&# or “Web 2.0″ You now have a voice.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I recently read a fascinating article in the latest edition of Fast Company – “ A Problem Solver’s Guide to Copycatting.&# For example (from the Fast Company article ), “In 1989, the pilots of the Exxon Valdez ran it into Bligh Reef, spilling enough oil to cover 11,000 square miles of ocean. way of thinking.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2011

In the good ol’ days, when I would walk into a sales meeting, I had approximately eight seconds to make a good impression. But that didn’t mean I could just walk into a sales meeting, nonchalantly slap a magazine down on the table, and expect them to magically understand exactly how useful it was. the blogroll.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

Topix also works with the nation’s major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds. Topix LLC is a privately held company with investment from Gannett Co., NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune Company.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

My company has clients across the federal government, and I could get a meeting with pretty much any of them just by saying that I lead our social media practice and I’d like to discuss how their organization could take advantage of social media. Meet with your boss about it. Meet with your boss’s boss about it.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Bookmark the blogs on my blogroll found to the right. Read the blogs that you find on those blogs’ blogrolls. If there’s an All-hands meeting coming up, ask to give a presentation on social media. why a blog might be more effective than facebook for some companies). You have to talk the talk too.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Development Social Media Wanted: People Who “Know&# Social Media and Communications Tue, Oct 7, 2008 Enterprise 2.0 , Social Media My company, Booz Allen Hamilton , is actively hiring consultants who “get&# social media. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I think we lose sight of that sometimes and forget that actually meeting people in person really helps develop and maintain that relationship. In 2009, I want to do more to illustrate the “What’s in it for me&# to our everyone at my company, especially our managers. I like your #5. I like your #5.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

The first thing that I have to tell them is that just because another organization, company, or agency implemented blogs or wikis or whatever else, they won’t necessarily see the same results, especially if they compare themselves to case studies in the private sector. While there we may make friends. As it is on the Web.

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