Archive for the ‘Social Media Policy’ Category

The hinge to social media success? It might surprise you.

Developing a social media policy for your company may seem simple but in fact the work could become a key element of your social media success.

When employees go wild on social media

Fear of employees ruining a company through social media is probably not a legitimate reason to not start a program. This post explains why.

Stop shoving social media down my throat

It’s time to step up and address one of the great myths pervading the social web — that an essential best practice is decentralizing social media marketing and pushing it down […]

Debating the future of social media leadership and strategy

This is a video of me sleeping. Holy crap what a lousy picture. Nevertheless, you are going to love this video. Jay Baer and I usually see eye-to-eye but when […]

What is Social Media’s Next Big Thing?

One possible answer: The Enterprise. No, no. Not the Star Trek kind of Enterprise (although that would be pretty cool). I mean using social media technologies internally, within the […]

Encouraging social web in the workplace may have side benefits

An article in the Harvard Business Review caught my eye. It provided some evidence that allowing at least some social media employee freedom is good for the workplace We all […]

It worked for Zappos. It probably won’t work for you.

Zappos* is a successful company with a well-publicized, aggressive employee use of social media. In fact, it may be the most famous social media model in all of blogdom. They have 13 blogs, […]

How social media can hurt business relationships

The social web may be the most revolutionary marketing tool since the advent of radio. I don’t have to tell you why at this point. But for all the opportunities, […]

An interview with GE’s Social Media Wizards

The GE Social Media Team: Gary Sheffer, Jen Walsh, Sean Gannon, Lisa Lanspery, Mike Eisenreich, Megan Parker and Vivek Kemp A few weeks ago I was introduced to GE’s social […]