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Facebook Launches a New Social Network | Social You Should Know

Ignite Social Media

This week we see Facebook release a brand new social network aimed at white-collar enterprise workers, proof that Messenger bots are going to be the latest rage (whether we need them or not), and data showing us how many users are viewing Instagram Stories. All of this, in this week’s Social You Should Know.

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Social Networking to Advance Your Career

Janet Fouts

Silicon Valley Tech Women held a panel at the shiny new SalesForce offices in downtown San Francisco entitled Leveraging Social Networking to Advance Your Career. Global Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems. Most of the panel chunks up time throughout the day to manage their social networks. Efficiency.

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Twitter + Yammer? What could have been…

Danny WhatMough

I’ve been thinking a lot about Enterprise Social Networks recently, and so should you if the figures about the potential size of the market over the next few years are to be believed ($6.4bn by 2016). The news that Yammer has been acquired by Microsoft for $1.2bn therefore shouldn’t come as any surprise.

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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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Social Media speeds Onboarding

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And what has been really interesting for me to see was the difference between organizations when it comes to things like social media. One of the things I was pleasantly surprised to find in the first few days was that Avaya has their own Yammer account within their firewall. So naturally I signed up and started sharing.

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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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Facebook: Improving Employee Communications?

Waxing UnLyrical

Of course, this is why organizations often use platforms such as Yammer for employee engagement, creating internal or private social networks, as it were. With a keen interest in social media, she blogs regularly at In My Humble Opinion. other passions include singing (professionally trained for over a decade!),

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