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Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?

Waxing UnLyrical

Whether you want to go for coffee, meet a friend or keep yourself posted on your friends’ birthdays, Facebook is where today’s generation updates each other by sharing the minutest details of their lives on the platform. What do you think: will Facebook ever successfully bridge the gap between employers and employees?

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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

When did I become the guy who gets tired of social media? How did I go from annoying everyone around me by my incessant yammering about social media to the guy who grows increasingly annoyed when people talk about everything social media will do? You can go out and get a social media certification.

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Attenzi – A Social Business Story

Waxing UnLyrical

The Internet is in its 40s, the Web is in its 20s, and social media (in its web manifestation) is in its teens. I think much the same can be said of social business. Social business means so much more to me than a business on Facebook, a business that tweets, maintains a blog, and nurtures an enterprise social network.

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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

Stories about how top executives just don’t “get” social media and the concept of social business were common four or five years ago. Per recent research from GaggleAMP : “Connecting your business with your employees in social media can boost your social media presence.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. How do you derive value from social enterprise apps? Future of Social Media?

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Social Media Drinking Games

Janet Fouts

I’m sick and tired of social media and I don’t want to talk about it! Harsh words for somebody like me to hear since social media is interwoven pretty tightly in our lives these days. She went on to rant about how social media was ruining her life. So we decided on a little experiment.

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Rest in Peace, Social Media Ninjas

Social Media Strategery

It’s now two or three years later, and you’ve become the organizational “expert,&# “guru,&# or “subject matter expert&# in social media, your social media blog receives a lot of traffic, you’ve championed the use of Enterprise 2.0 Social media specialists are the new normal.