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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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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

In this and similar scenarios, the employee would have otherwise “ relied on a central repository of all company’s experience that is located in one person’s head, or nowhere at all.”. From what I’ve learned, the question is no longer if socialized business will become the norm, but when. Future of Social Media?

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Instagram Does the Two Step - And Steps In It

Social Media Marketing

Instagram was all the rage, and I've even heard from a number of sources that it is now one of the definitive social networks for the teen and tween demographic. It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. So what happened? Backed by Yahoo!,

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Here’s the Difference Between Content Marketing and Social Media

Convince & Convert

The goals of social media are participation, then behavior. The confusing thing today is that as social media expands, brands need to create content to populate these channels. Will marketing budgets towards content-focused marketing initiatives potentially exceed those for social media marketing? tweet this ).

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Social Media Is CRM

Social Media Network Marketing

As a result, those companies that use the strongest social CRM integrations should increase revenue; expand market share; improve their corporate image and, maybe, even fine-tune product development to offer items with the most wished-for features or capabilities.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. You can have a create a network or a group bookmarking account so that anyone can add new bookmarks, tags to existing, and add comments. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites.

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No Straight Lines / Technology makes it easy to remember,' the trick is learning how to forget

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Just over a year ago, I wrote the following: My early days in Knowledge Management included a lot of time developing, deploying, and getting people to use “knowledge repositories.&# (At least trying to get people to use them.) « Six attributes of an affinity group (or community of practice). Social Networks.