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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. With the growing ubiquity of Enterprise 2.0

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Before my own company's Intranet won any awards , we had people talking about how they enjoy skinny dipping on their profile. It doesn't work like that.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ok, so you decide to implement an internal microblogging platform like Yammer or Socialcast, or even an internal Wiki platform like SocialText or Confluence. Not just a ‘check the box’ type of – did you contribute back to the community – but if you didn’t contribute tangibly back to the community – it may impact your bonus potential!

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

His company is ZevenSeas which wins points for having a cool name, I reckon. Before today, and probably still in many companies, the response to Badges for incentives would be met with a sneer and a “who gives a flying fig about stamps of approval?&#. Yesterday I attended the Sharepoint geekfest at The Hilton Sydney.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

If you think that the enterprise-wide wiki you’ve been pushing to install is going to change the culture of your organization, think again. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. Enable open and transparent communication! Use wikis to eliminate email! Enterprise 2.0

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My Social Media Resolutions for 2009

Social Media Strategery

Use email less (internally) – One thing I’ve realized is that if I keep answering people’s emails, people will continue to send them to me, even if I explicitly tell them that they’re more likely to get a hold of me by posting their question/comment to my internal blog, contact me on Yammer, use my internal wiki page, etc.

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Building Your Business With Internal Collaboration

Convince & Convert

Ever since the big uptake of social media, we’ve been seeing a lot of companies start to bring these tools, platforms, behavior changes, and technologies into the enterprise. But if you talk to an executive or a decision maker at a company nowadays, you say “Hey, where are you going to find. companies today.