social media

  • submit to reddit

An Excellent View of the Peak of Loyalty

What if the biggest fans of your brand are able to step outside the shopping experience simply because they follow their passions? That’s exactly what...

0 replies - 822 views - 04/09/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Are you using social screening in your recruitment?

The newswires were abuzz in Britain over the weekend after it emerged that the youth police commissioner in Kent, England had posted some dopey things on...

0 replies - 1671 views - 04/08/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Has China scored an own goal by censoring flu ‘tweets’?

I’ve written previously about the increasing use of social media monitoring to track and prevent the spread of disease.  Such initiatives are not...

0 replies - 588 views - 04/05/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Lessons in Self Organizing Social Systems

Last week, I had a chance to reflect on eleven years of the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering. A bit of background on RFG: I started the Gathering in 2002...

0 replies - 572 views - 04/05/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Social media makes us more productive

When I first blogged about the issue of whether social media should be banned at work it was still a mildly contentious issue.  There were still...

0 replies - 1024 views - 04/02/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

If you’re a loser online…you’re just a loser

While writing a recommendation for a friend on LinkedIn earlier this week, I realized I was doing something that I couldn’t have imagined doing few years...

0 replies - 809 views - 04/02/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Social Business Starts With Leaders Connecting Socially To Employees

One of the huge benefits that social media (still) has going for it is that it still feels very intimate. Some people complain that social media dilutes...

0 replies - 706 views - 04/02/13 by Steve Farnsworth in Articles

The social habits of patients

Earlier this year research was published that explored how medical professionals used social media.  It found that many were seeing excellent results...

0 replies - 1024 views - 03/31/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Social Business – Going from Qualitative to Quantitative

In many organizations social business seems like a qualitative exercise. They think, “We need to do this because it will make our organization work better...

0 replies - 650 views - 03/28/13 by Steve Farnsworth in Articles

Rosetta Stone are translating social business into social success

Whilst the early days of social media usage saw companies chasing somewhat false prophets, such as more followers or likes, the social business movement...

0 replies - 958 views - 03/27/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Life is but a stream and the enterprise needs to dive in

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced last week that Chatter will become the de-facto front end of Salesforce going forward. In a statement Benioff talked...

0 replies - 1198 views - 03/27/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Are you a social media super hero?

I am not talking about the Facebook user with one million friends. I am not talking about the social humanitarians who are saving the world one tweet at a...

0 replies - 754 views - 03/23/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Does your executive team need to tweet to create a social business

Do you think you need to be an expert at something to inspire others?  The methods of motivation and leadership are many and varied, but undoubtedly...

0 replies - 549 views - 03/22/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

It’s a social world: Cover your friends

The business world can learn a lot about promotion from the arts community. www.CoverYourFriends.com is a video blog website that features...

0 replies - 484 views - 03/21/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Social business in the Australian manufacturing sector

I wrote recently about a new report by DHL detailing the importance for companies to collaborate with rivals using social tools.Australian manufacturers are...

0 replies - 699 views - 03/20/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles