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The 1-9-90 rule won't work for Internal Collaboration

Buzz Marketing for Technology

You sweat the long nights and the hard work that it takes to get your new platform stood up within your organization so that everyone can begin to collaborate. The cycle of this theory has to be broken when it comes to internal collaboration sites. You are a hero. It’s almost like answering 1 out of every 100 emails!

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A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com

SocialFish

Salesforce.com (yes, it is the name of the company) is a publicly traded Software as a Service company that offers a salesforce automation database and a customizable development platform “in the cloud&#. Open Community Means Collaborating with a Purpose. See [link] for a quick overview. 700 questions are asked each week.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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. That said, if you are a large company, it could take you 3-4 months just to coordinate calendars to get all the right people gathered!

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Diva Marketing Talks Boomers Step Into Social Media With Des Walsh, Barbara Rozgonyi & Carlos Hernandez

Diva Marketing Blog

He draws on that experience to help companies handle the cultural challenge in changing from a traditional command and control approach to marketing and communications, to the more open, transparent world of social media. He is a regular speaker on blogging and social media and has spoken at conferences in Australia, the USA and China.

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How to Make the Most of Your Social Media Budget

Sprout Social

Depending on the size of your company, whether or not you’re running social media ads or the number of handles you manage–costs can reach a few hundred dollars a month or several thousands. That is why Sprout Social has worked hard to create social collaboration tools specifically for teams.

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16 Ways to Promote Your “Boring” Brand or Product on Social Media

Hootsuite

What’s more interesting: a bidet company explaining that last season’s model is 25% off, or a bidet company sharing the environmental impact toilet paper has on the planet ? Mail-order vitamin company Ritual mixes in personal letters from its CEO with memes, informational posts and product intel. Hold a Q&A. of humanity.

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Pinterest for Business: How to Get Started & Be Successful

Sprout Social

Also notice that her bio tells lurkers what she can help them do and offers a free resource to get viewers over to her website. There are successful companies on Pinterest who use branded covers and ones who do not so it is up to you. Melyssa Griffin (the creator of Pinfinite Growth) does a great job with this.