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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Investigate whether your product sells better by recommendation versus education, and use either wikis and widgets to help recommend, or videos and podcasts for education. Consider a Lijit Wijit or other aggregator widget. Don’t NOT go.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

IT departments are increasingly being asked to implement wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, video-sharing, and dozens of other varieties of collaboration software – software they may know how to code, but often have no idea how to actually use. and Government 2.0 initiatives. What other benefits do you see to getting them more involved?

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The answer is NOT always social media/community - that would be another warning sign if it was. They were very in sync and collaborative and having them there prevents a large “translation&# effort from what we learned and decided to the partners who will ultimately help them implement. make your own Wink Widget!