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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

Biznology

Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. You may no longer remember this, but back in 2006, wikis were all the rage. Photo credit: Wikipedia. Why does that happen? Williams was published.

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Being Lightweight: Tools We Use | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Reading - Ill write more about this later, but I recently bought a Kindle - Amazons e-reader. Ive had one for about three weeks now and *love* it - but Im a book person, not a tech person (I personally love the fact that it doesnt look like a $400 snazzy object since I take it with me everywhere I go. I am a big fan.

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Think Narrow and Harness the Power of UnPopular

Convince & Convert

You know from when your book came out last year, Amazon releases the Kindle edition when they like. The initial feedback, even unsolicited feedback on Amazon from people who didn’t get advance review copies, I’m just grateful. Talk about that a little bit and how important sort of the personality side of it is.

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Marketer of The Month Podcast- EPISODE 077: Brand Awareness Using the Best SEO Tactics and the Ideal Wikipedia Strategy

Outgrow

But people are finding other ways to get sales and lead generation, they’re like, you know, there are so many channels these days for e-commerce, people go on Amazon and eBay to sell things and for services, you could get leads to other sites like freelancing sites, like Upwork. You know, the person did a poor job in there.

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Chuck's Blog: Why Supporting Knowledge Workers Is Hard For IT

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Just ask Amazon. Its almost impossible and self-defeating to charge back for accessing the corporate intranet portal, or using enterprise search, or a wiki platform. blogs, wikis, IM, etc.) But because of the diversity of knowledge work, it needs to be quite personal. URL: Remember personal info? Post a comment.

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Digital Transformation and Continuous Change

Biznology

The success of companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple and other digitally-enabled enterprises has encouraged many businesses to seek similar agility through Digital Transformation. The band-aid solution of providing a wiki and hoping staff will ‘do the right thing’ and document their work just leads to a chaotic, repetitive mess.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Lesson # 1 Personal Branding. Dan Schawbel , EMCs first social media specialist, returned to Bentley College to do a presentation about personal branding and social media. Among other things, personal branding involves an understanding that you have a public image (whether you want to or not). Lesson #6 Master Wikis.