Category for social networking

Socialnomics Video

If you have not already done so, you should definitely watch the promotional video for the book Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business.

I haven’t read the book yet but the video has some pretty intense statistics. This may …

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The Employee and the Professional

Joke going around the office: Microsoft buys Yammer, renames it SharePoint Cloud Server 2012 Mobile Enterprise Social Networking Edition
— Gene Smith (@gsmith) June 14, 2012

Within all of us there are two minds: the professional and the employee. Actually, there are probably many more but …

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Influencer Perks

There is a new SmartMoney article about how companies are giving special treatment to customers with high online influence. Is this really new? When haven’t businesses gone out of their way to cater to and hire people with influence? Astute local business people …

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Anti-Social Business Blowback

A couple of days ago I posted how “going social” will be difficult for most companies. Then, what do you know, I get a real-life example. Just now, I saw this tweet from Bonnie Smalley, A.K.A. Bonniezilla, formerly the voice of “Comcast Cares“.

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Social Business: Revolution or Differentiator?

Thank you Deb Lavoy for writing that Social Business blog that I have been meaning to write (Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0). Procrastination pays! Deb did a better job than I could have done explaining …

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Would anyone "Like" this blog?

One of my newspaper clients recently added the Facebook “Like” button to their site and saw large increases in traffic. I was thinking of doing the same thing for Content Here but then I started to wonder “would I Like Content Here?” Don’t …

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HTML production for CMS implementations

Most new site CMS implementations (as opposed to site migrations from one CMS to another) start off with a set of HTML mockups. This can be a convenient starting place because, in addition to showing how the pages should look and informing the content …

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World Plone Day 2010

Mark your calendars, World Plone Day is on April 28th. World Plone Day is a free, annual, international event designed to introduce the Plone content management system to people outside of the Plone community. This year it is being held in 36 locations …

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How Many Microblogging Services Does the World Really Need?

After hearing all this news about status.net, I took a few moments to connect my Identi.ca account with my Twitter account. I am not at all sure what good that did but I figured it couldn’t hurt. While I was there, I got …

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How I use Twitter for Work

Publishing Decision Tree V2

Originally uploaded by sggottlieb

I just read Philippe Parker’s thoughtful response to Janus Boye’s provocative post “How I use Twitter for Work”. Both these articles, plus my recent experience at PodCamp Western Mass, made me a little more conscious of my strategy …

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