Reflections from a 10 year veteran of social media. The picture above is of a computer I placed in a beehive. My most experimental involvement in social media was to put a live computer in a beehive connected to Twitter. You can read what the honeybees taught me in a wonderful free e-book: Waggle: 39 Ways to …
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Effective social media use needs to increase Although 79% of the 2,100 companies surveyed are either using or planning to use social media channels, a measly 12% of those firms feel that they are using them effectively. HBR Survey: http://hbr.org/web/slideshows/social-media-what-most-companies-dont-know/2-slide Commentary Just because we have usage does not mean that we have effective usage. What would …
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Zinger Friday Factoid #8: Employee Social Media Wasteland? Each social media user, according to learnstuff.com costs their company $4452.00 every year. (http://www.learnstuff.com/social-media-at-work/) Commentary When it comes to social media in an organization it is good to have an open mind but not so open that your brains fall out. I like this factoid because it …
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Think Different Inside the Hive Engage the connection between social media and a living social beehive. Today between 9 and 10 CDT, I will be putting a computer live inside a beehive. The hive is located near Starbuck Manitoba and belongs to an extraordinary beekeeper, Phil Veldhuis. The computer screen will be turned on to a Twitter …
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