Paul Gillin

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

With the acquisition of Sun complete, Oracle distributed its social media policy to employees this week, and I was forwarded a copy. Chris Boudreaux has assembled an amazing database of 167 social media policies from businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations that you may also find useful. REQUIREMENTS.

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Oracle’s Updated Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

The Oracle Social Media Participation Policy applies to. Twitter, social networking sites). Since social media activities can impact your ability to do your job and Oracle’s business interests, it is extremely important to follow the requirements set forth below. Dated 11/22/10. This is a well-crafted policy. com , wiki.

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Not Dead Yet: Blogging’s Popularity Surges Among F500

Paul Gillin

Nora Ganim Barnes and her team at the Charlton College of Business Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth continue to produce some of the most consistent, rigorous and comprehensive research on social media adoption by both small and large businesses. This represents a 4% increase since 2012.

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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

I was privileged to be on a panel with some outstanding social media practitioners from the insurance industry at the 2011 Social Media Conference for Financial Services put on by LOMA LIMRA this morning. His advice to social media marketers: “Think big. Here are some notes I took away from the three speakers on my panel.

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When Bad News is Good

Paul Gillin

Twitter is recording about 10 tweets per minute mentioning the author’s name. Scores of articles have appeared in mainstream media. YouTube views are over 1 million. In today’s hyper-caffeinated media market, you have to make a scene to get noticed. The story is a microcosm of the new media industry.

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ComScore Data Illustrates But Also Obfuscates

Paul Gillin

That’s pretty lame, considering that YouTube has had its own social networking layer for years and that the previous social layer on top of Gmail – Google Buzz – went nowhere. The low number for Twitter is so misleading that it should be asterisked. Also, only about 20% of Twitter activity actually occurs on Twitter.com.

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Multimedia & Web

Paul Gillin

I use a lot of video in presentations, and have always gotten good performance from the free Foxreal YouTube FLV Downloader. It works with a lot more sites than just YouTube and cleanly downloads Flash video. You can even create collages like the one I use for my Twitter page background. Tweetdeck for Twitter is one.

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