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Game mechanics EVERYWHERE!
He hasn’t yet posted slides or notes, but you can get the gist of the talk from this blog post and these notes . On the otherwise tepid “City As A Platform” panel, Dustin Haisler rocked my world with his presentation of Manor Labs , which attempts to bring social media tools to community and government engagement. I’ve just returned from SXSW Interactive 2010, and perhaps the best talk I saw was Andy Baio’s “Gaming the Crowd, Turning Work Into Play”. The main thesis addresses bringing game mechanics into non-game contexts to encourage
Adaptive Path - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Should Honesty Be the Policy in Your Office?
The (social) networks to organizational hell are wired with good intentions. Maybe a politically incorrect comment, boozy photo, or unflattering blog materialized via Google or Bing. Just as BlackBerries and always-on mobile phones have obliterated the line between personal and professional accessibility, social media have introduced an inherent "creep factor" — in both meanings of that phrase — for colleagues, coworkers, and superiors. Would I lie to you? Probably not, but forgive me for preserving the option.
HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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TSA Leading Charge to Co-opt Blogging, Twitter for The Man?
Twitter and blogs started as way to give voice to the little guys. Now the big guys are using the same tools to criticize the critics. Twitter's been a breath of fresh air in the social networking space, seeming a free and relatively user-centric system, with the patriarchal Corporate and Governmental "Man" conspicuous for his absence. And then the TSA's stepped up, using its public-facing and very successful blog (which you may not have even imagined existed) to debunk this story, using the same Web But is the TSA trying to change this? Recently we, and many other
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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  • Debunking Social Media Myths
    He said "I was selling in the idea that social media is free, until the community manager headcount came in." This underscores a fundamental truth to social media that many organizations underestimate-- being social means having real live people who actively participate in your initiatives. The economics of using social media in business require the participation of people to fuel it. I recently spoke at and attended the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC. On day two, I heard something from Brian Wallace of Blackberry that echoed thoughts I've been preaching
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies
    If you've got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an entirely new kind of online experience. That doesn't limit your social media options to a generic corporate news blog or a standard-issue Facebook page. But many organizations lack the time, budget or experience to start from scratch. Here are three great options for robust social media presences that let you manage cost and risk by building on existing tools and established best
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 27, 2009
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  • Intel's Social Media Training
    Are you exploring how to create a social media strategy for your company? One employee in particular, Josh Bancroft, started to build out our social infrastructure in 2004. Over time, Intel created a comprehensive set of social media policies simply called the Intel Social Media Guidelines . These guidelines Are you looking for a company to benchmark? One you might consider looking at first is Intel Corporation.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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  • Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media
    Online community and social media are hot areas for business these days, as companies recognize the Internet's potential to deepen customer relationships , share knowledge and strengthen teams . NGO-run online communities and social media presences offered nonprofits a new way of stoking and harnessing their members' loyalty and passion; and in their many successes, businesses can find key lessons for using social media to enhance customer relationships, too: In the nonprofit sector, relationships have always been the key currency: the relationships with the members, donors and supporters that NGOs depend on for volunteer labor, financial support and advocacy muscle.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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  • Hire Smarter with Social Media
    Social media can help you focus your recruitment efforts to get great results in any economic climate. Here's how you can use social media tools to make the most of your next hire: Reaching To make efficient use of your time and attention, reach out through the social networks you and your employees already use, and through the online channels that reach your key audiences. A recession might seem like good news for employers looking to hire: with unemployment rates up, you've got more people to choose from and the opportunity to hire at a lower price. While the current
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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  • When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
    Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 An executive publishes her first blog post, primarily addressing his employees, but open to the public. platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react: She intends for the blog to help the survivors
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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  • Riding Social Media's Trojan Horse
    When McDonald's launched its corporate social responsibility blog at the beginning of 2006, its title — Open For Discussion — signaled the company's readiness to engage with the blogosphere. Eight months later, it faced widespread criticism for the limitations of that engagement: when critics posted comments to the blog about the company's decision to include toy Hummers in the restaurant's Happy Meals, they noticed the company was slow to publish their comments . The company response (that finally went up on the blog) was a cautious one : "Looked at through children's eyes, the miniature Hummers are just toys, not vehicle recommendations or a source of consumer messages about natural resource conservation, greenhouse gas emissions, etc."
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, May 29, 2009
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  • Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche
    In the early days of blogging you could go to the Technorati Blog Index , enter some identifying terms for a particular niche topic and discover what the top blogs were in the field. Identifying top niche blogs is invaluable knowledge for anyone wanting to enter, study or market to people in a particular field. It's one of the fastest and most effective ways I've been seeing a lot of demand for this information lately so I thought I'd write up some quick pros and cons of the options I'm familiar with. Perhaps you'll add some of your own favorite methods in comments.
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, January 1, 2009
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  • 10 Ways to Build Social Media Expertise Using Personal Web Projects
    When Timex sponsored a Twitter party in late 2009, it leaned on the social media expertise of Stefania Pomponi Butler and her partners in Clever Girls Collective to deliver a conversation that would engage women consumers with the Timex brand. But Stefania's social media smarts weren't born from a corporate campaign or formal training: this former marketing pro got her start in social media by blogging about life as an urban mom . The success of her personal blog brought forth paid blogging gigs, which turned into editing gigs and then production gigs.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • Five Challenges Social Media Will Bring to Business
    A recent survey conducted by Proofpoint found that 8% of companies had terminated employees due to social media usage (common causes including sharing sensitive information on a network). And while the statistic seems significant, it only underscores one of several upcoming challenges nearly every organization will face as changes in people, process and technology fueled by the collective movement we call social media begin to transform business. Here are a few challenges that every organization should be planning for right now: 1.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, August 14, 2009
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