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Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?

Waxing UnLyrical

I was surprised to get a Facebook request from my company ( Six Degrees PR ) to join its Page named “Six Degrees PR bunker.” I never thought that any company would step up to connect and engage with its employees through a private Facebook Page – this was quite a surprise to me. Case in point: me.

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Major Social Media Acquisitions: 3 Must-Reads

Firebelly

Big companies have been acquiring social media startups a lot lately. Here are 3 must-reads on some of the larger acquisitions and, more importantly, why these companies feel the need to become more social. Buddy Media enables its clients to listen, engage, gain insight, publish, advertise and measure social marketing programs.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. 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.”.

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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

Worse, C-level executives who don’t use social media themselves are also much less likely to understand how to capitalize on the social media savvy and reach of their employees to benefit their companies. ” Expanding a company’s social presence through its employees’ networks requires some give and take.

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For Social Business, Remember the 90-9-1 Rule

Webbiquity SMM

According to recent research from McKinsey , “companies that adopt social technologies can see a 50% increase in customer satisfaction, 48% increase in business leads, and 24% increase in revenue. Offer more advanced training to the 10% who will account for the vast majority of content development and engagement activity.

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Staff Persona Avatars: Social Media, Big Data and Employer Branding

Laurel Papworth

It’s not big data [because it’s declarative not behavoural] but Big Data could be used to profile companies for me and candidates for you. Those who have done my Yammer content and engagement course, how would staff avatars/personas help you craft your comms messages in a more targeted way?

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#measurePR Recap (July 2015): Internal Communications

Waxing UnLyrical

To engage/motivate your internal community, you need to understand the ‘state of the union.’ I then asked how our guests felt internal communications and PR should work together: A5 Employees are key source of intel for a company, so #internal #comms should be feeding rest of comms team. ’ #internalcomms #measurepr.

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