Social Business is the emerging hot topic of 2012. Are you ready?
Businesses need to take their cue from consumers, they are now dictating at a rapid pace, their expectations, wants and needs.
CoAction is the new Action
The above image was taken from a deck that Chris Carfi from Ant's Eye View put together. The Social Engagement Journey illustrates how organizations are slowly evolving from a traditional, command & control type of entity to a fully engaged, open and yes ..
Hugh MacLeod Celebrates The End of Business as Usual in a Cartoon Hugh MacLeod is an artist, cartoonist, and Web 2.0 pundit whose blog, gapingvoid.com, has two million unique monthly visitors. His first book, Ignore Everybody, was an Amazon Top Ten Business Book of the Year and a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
It's that time of year again. Enterprise social media has had an impressive ramp-up in 2011 as well as being well-poised for a banner year in 2012.
Originally published on Edelman Digital If you Google the phrase “social business” you’ll get a variety of results returned. One of the first and perhaps oldest is a Wikipedia entry, which describes “social business” as “a non-loss, non-dividend company designed...
Just ten years ago, there was another significant shift in the way people interacted with each other: the Web came to the workplace. From e-commerce and peer-to peer file sharing to the emergence of web-based solutions for financial, accounting, and supply chain systems, the web has become a serious business tool for organizations and industries of every kind.
A new network, tool or feature launches on a social network and we all flock to it. Business leaders attend social media class after social media class searching for the social media "guru" who will once and for all be able to show them the magic answer to social media ROI.
Published on December 26, 2011 by R "Ray" Wang The Shift From Transaction To Engagement Ushers A New Era For Businesses. As organizations enter the evolution from transactional systems to engagement systems, a shift is happening in business (see Figure 1). Engagement requires a different design point and business model for success. Engagement must account for sense and response, massive social scale, conversation, new user experiences, real-time, multichannel networks, and other factors.
“Humanize offers practical content and insightful thinking that will help businesses make the deep changes needed to thrive in today’s social world. “ —Mike Smith, author of Matchpoint and President of Forbes.com “Companies need to be social, and worry less about doing social media.
By Ben LaMothe on December 19, 2011 6:38 PM For a lot of business, 2011 was the year of "finding itself" in its attempt to bring itself online in the social media era. Almost over night, thousands of social media-centric job openings began appearing on job boards.
2012 is primed to be the year of social. In particular we can anticipate a blitz of publicity around social business. But social media too still has room to surprise. Talking with a group of people recently including Lloyd Armbrust at OwnLocal and Tom Smith of Global Web Index (and [...]
The problem with assumptions is that they always come with blind spots. The friendlier and human a company is, the more potential for success it will have. This goes back to the theory that the co...
Each year at this time, I look forward and predict trends in social media for the coming year. But first, I look back at my predictions from last year. How'd I do? Not bad. Social media continues to move forward toward business integration, a trend that I identified last year.
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Would you like to combine forces with another company in a collaborative promotion? Want to know why this is wise and how to do it? Keep reading… Many marketers have a relentless focus on a single dimension of social interaction: the brand-consumer relationship.
Companies are adopting social technologies across a broad range of enterprise activities from new ways for employees and partners to collaborate to more effective methods to engage customers and prospects. In a recent IDC social business survey we found that 41% of the respondent companies had some type of social project underway.
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. "I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years…Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."
Originally posted on Social Business News. Research from consulting firm, Bain & Company revealed that organizations that have adopted social media early on (Dell, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, JetBlue and American Express) have captured real economic business value from their budget investments.
5 Signs You are NOT a Social Business
December 23, 2011 by Steve Woodruff Many of us who use social networking platforms in the professional world know that it can be difficult to get "old school" leaders to understand the power of these approaches for business. Say "social media," and they think of Facebook and Twitter and YouTube (and all the baggage that goes with them).
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This is the eBook version of the printed book. This book will help organizations evolve into a fully collaborative social business. It serves as a step by step playbook to achieve organizational change, process efficiencies and technology acumen: Many organizations today have already evolved into social brands.
"Bradley and McDonald practically present the process of becoming a social organization where employees, customers, suppliers, and all other stakeholders are direct participants in the creation of value." T+D magazine, The American Society Society for Training & Development (ASTD)Featured on the CIO Insight 2011 Fall Reading List.
"For crying out loud, IBM 'gets' social media. Don't you think it's about time that you do? This is the book to get you started."--Guy Kawasaki, author of Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions “Sandy Carter has not just written a book, she has set a standard.
How do we make corporations more like cities, which get more productive as they grow bigger? Help me with my ongoing research project. Burn this term into your head: superlinear corporation. Burn the graph below into your head too. You will likely see graphs like this one, based on real data from individual companies, in the next two to three years.
David F. Carr | December 29, 2011 They range from Facebook platform changes to OpenSocial specs to the phenomenon of social poseurs. Before I try to rank social business stories, let me explain what I'm talking about.
