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Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook has introduced new tools to its app, Messenger, that make it easier for users to report conversations that violate the network’s community standards. The new data regime in Europe undoubtedly will have an impact on how businesses like Klout and its parent company Lithium Technologies can conduct business. May 23, 2018.

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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

Lithium Technologies. So, while this is still – for now – a rumour, given that these confirmations were initially posted by the company (I saw the blog comment before its removal), I’m inclined to believe the reports and that a formal announcement is imminent. Acquired by. Jive Software. January 2010. February 2010.

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Do you need to own your community?

Jeff Esposito

A little while back I was catching up with my friend Jim Storer of the Community Roundtable before we shared a panel about social customer support. In our prep, Jim and I continued our on-going disagreement on whether a company needs to own the platform that they are keeping a community on.

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What’s a social CRM going to do for my business?

Janet Fouts

There are actually quite a few social CRM services allowing you to tap into what people are saying about your company and reach out to them. lithium works with social listening tools to integrate mentions of issues or questions about your product into forums where you can communicate directly with your customers.

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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

It addresses the need to drive organizational change in an effort to shift employee behavior, communicate more effectively across job functions and geographies and tear down organizational silos. Companies need to first understand what it is they are trying to achieve before thinking about which technology vendor to deploy.

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How do you deal with the social customer?

Jeff Esposito

In theory, as customers migrate more towards social media, companies need to evolve to keep up with them. This includes not only building a community and conversation with customers but also monetizing and measuring the effectiveness of the company’s efforts. So where should companies start?

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Five for Friday 10.29.10

Jeff Esposito

Jenny Zesut of Lithium and I have a great conversation that you won’t want to miss. Debate: Do All Community Managers Need Social Media? Is social media needed to have a community manager? So if it were to go poof, so does your community. Is it social, sure but the company owns the content. The network does.

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