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The Conscious Company Global Leaders Forum

Janet Fouts

Mike Brady CEO of Greyston Bakery , a benefit corp and social enterprise bakery in Pennsylvania, practices the collaborative approach to hiring. It’s obvious that we need more wellness training in our workforce to reduce stress and improve productivity with a happy workforce. They call it “Open Hiring™”.

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The Real Roadblock to Social Business Success

Webbiquity SMM

This is different than the point above; it’s not fear that employees will purposely waste time, but rather that employees, with the best of intentions, will use social networks inefficiently. Monitoring, measurement, and training are the answer. And, backed up with training and clear policies, they deserve it.

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"Will Social Media Change Our Behavior?"

Diva Marketing Blog

How will job descriptions and subsequent annual reviews and raise incentives change for "indirect customer engagement jobs that include social media participation? Will these jobs be at a higher grade level since additional skills, experience and training will be needed?

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

Social Media Strategery

I’m particularly interested in businesses like Tom’s Shoes and Honest Tea that are social enterprises and have a focus on doing good and giving back. I’d love to give training scholarships so those govies who want to advance their career can get the training they need.

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This weeks #socialmedia tweetchat topic: Engagement Through Customer Service: Your Contact Center & Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Contact centers are traditionally very strong with telephone support so incorporating online social media into contact centers is certainly a challenge. There may be nothing more important however to developing a truly social enterprise than incorporating the contact centers in a meaningful way. The challenges abound.

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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

They partner them up with “digital dinosaurs”, again their term, not mine, and they make sure that they have the right training and get comfortable using the tools. That’s a different mind shift and a different “training” that everyone should go through. To them, to not use them is ridiculous.

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What is in a network access agreement?

Writtent Blog

Food for Futures is YWCA Darwins catering and conference facility social enterprise operating out of Barbara James House and is able to support the work of YWCA Darwin. Want more information?For

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