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Engineering360 Joins Expanding World of Vertical B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

.” Edited by David Wagman , a journalist and analyst who’s covered engineering for more than 25 years, the site features news, analysis, product research and tools, events, product catalogs, an interactive community and other resources typical of professional networks.

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McKinsey Research Again Validates Social Technology Benefits

Paul Gillin

Executives at internally networked organizations note the highest improvement in benefits from interactions with employees; those at externally networked organizations, from interactions with customers, partners, and suppliers.

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Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in Plain English

Paul Gillin

My goal was to describe in plain English the way these networks provide value to their users and the metaphors they use for interaction. The two most popular social networks – Facebook and LinkedIn – use similar tools and metaphors to provide strikingly different utility. Facebook & LinkedIn.

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Five Often-Overlooked Reasons Senior Executives Should Use Social Media

Paul Gillin

Their concerns are motivated by a basic misunderstanding of how people use tools like LinkedIn and Twitter. We constantly seek connection points in all our interactions because they create a foundation for trust. The same applies to online interactions, and that’s why social networks can be so powerful for executives.

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. Even though there are tools that make it possible to post the same message across multiple social networks simultaneously, I urge you not to use them in that manner. These thoughts are particularly directed at B2B marketers.

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Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

This is an under-utilized tool that enables companies to present an HTML page as their default front door. EMC doesn’t use Facebook’s wall to much effect, but its purpose seems more promotional than interactive. For interactivity, it’s hard to beat Intel’s page, which has racked up nearly 2.7

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Surveys Show ‘Social Business’ Concept Gaining Traction

Paul Gillin

Facebook was identified as the most effective tool by a comfortable margin, but Twitter, LinkedIn and video sharing are all creeping up. Other research studies over more general populations have indicated that small businesses still lag far behind large enterprises in their adoption of social media tools.