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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

Social Media Strategery

.” She went on to say that instead of talking about social media, social business, building communities and why your organization needs to use blogs, wikis, and microblogging, you should be talking about increasing sales, increasing productivity, and cutting costs. For you, building communities might be the goal.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Though to be honest, given the “But does Twitter have a business use&# questions, the audience weren’t quite ready to make the work place a fun and social environment. Taking Badges Further: I use incentives to reward influencers in my online communities in three ways: Points for repetitive, ongoing and countable activity.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

&# That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They said, “that’s what we want!&# They installed a wiki. And they waited… They soon discovered that their users weren’t actually, you know, using the wiki.

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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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7 Levels of Social Media Engagement

Laurel Papworth

Social Media means “waste of time&# – Facebook and Twitter are blocked at the firewall because we don’t want people wasting time on social networks, even on their lunch break. LinkedIn is blocked because someone mentioned someone once found a job on this online community.

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Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power

Convince & Convert

Eric : Yes, and maybe that’s the question, how do they define embracing social media? If it is embracing social media in the sense of prospecting, or does it mean embracing social media as having a brand outpost on a social network? tetanus, that will be the new official for the Social Pros Podcast.

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Be a Social Business: PR Trends in 2011

Proactive Report

Tools like blogs, feeds, IM, services like Yammer, wikis and social networks should be an integral part of your intranet. Create communities for action: Social networks have clearly demonstrated the value of connecting people, improving their communication, and how that results in stronger relationships and trust.

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