Posts Tagged as ‘community’

February 21, 2010

Social Media Success for Small Business

This is a presentation about social media success for small business.  It focuses on three areas (1) brand (2) community, and (3) passion. Focusing on the video Social Media in Plain English by Common Craft, we take the ice cream analogy to the next level and look at the behaviors that work for jumping into [...]

January 22, 2010

Building An Employee Community

Employee communities, internal social media platforms built for employee engagement by the employer, can be a wild success and source of innovation or an incredible flop. I have seen examples of both first hand. So how do you make your employee community an engaging place that workers will care about? There are three primary tactics [...]

December 3, 2009

Aardvark – Social Media Q&A (this ain’t your sister’s Magic 8-Ball)

Remember the ’80′s?  Of course you do: big hair, the start of MTV, Coke v. Pepsi, Back to the Future, and glam rock (even if you didn’t live through these wonderful times you can “relive” them with I Love the ’80′s).  One of the things I fondly remember was my sister’s Magic 8-ball, a little [...]

July 26, 2009

A Social Media Family Reunion

A funny thing happened on the way to the webinar (the one I moderated for Matindale Hubbell Connected last week; my first time doing that by the way). We scheduled a webinar as part of our “Social Media Solutions” theme about creating social media policies. VP of Legal from Chiney Capital, James Wong, was our [...]

June 16, 2009

Connected: using social media tools to recast yourself

It has been over 14-days since I last posted, a violation of the blogger’s code (never go more than 10-days without a post).  No, I am not turning in my blogger card just yet.  In fact, there have been some significant changes in my life over the last few weeks, some of which can be [...]

March 17, 2009

Making Money in Social Media?

I used to belong to a great little community called PGL (pregame lobby).  As a discussion site for gamers, PGL does a good job of providing a place to find a Halo pick up game, drool over the latest XBox 360 release, and meet like-minded adults who love interactive entertainment.  Site users can advance to [...]