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RAQ: Do You Need to Be Unique to Profit from Social Media?
At the FUEL social media meeting in Rochester, someone asked: Don’t you really have to be special or unique to gain from social media? I mean, if there are 200,000 T-shirt vendors on Twitter, aren’t you going to waste a lot of time trying to get noticed? What if there is nothing that really sets [...]
Posted in Blogging, Chancellor RAQs, Social Media Also tagged Blogs, Social Media, Tom Vanderwell Leave a comment
Rochester Area Quality Council Presentation
Here is the presentation I’m delivering this morning to the Rochester Area Quality Council, a local affiliate of the Minnesota Council for Quality. Engaging Your Customers (and finding new ones) Through Social Media View more presentations from Lee Aase. I look forward to a great discussion, as I understand the registration for the session (and [...]
Posted in Conferences, Social Media Also tagged Facebook, Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Area Quality Council, Social Media, Twitter 5 Comments
Yammer Groups Arrive!
For the last week or so I’ve had the opportunity to preview the new Yammer (which includes a much-needed Groups feature) on a staging server, with a limited number of colleagues. It was rolled out to all Yammer users last night, and I just created my first “real” group. The Yammer Blog has an in-depth [...]
Posted in Blogging, Productivity, Tools Also tagged blog, business networking, Groups, micro-blogging, Yammer 1 Comment
Why Every Business Should Use Facebook
As I previously mentioned, I had an opportunity a couple of weeks ago to distill my thoughts on the business benefits of Facebook for an article Julie Sartain was writing for Computerworld. It was a really useful exercise for me, and an opportunity to encapsulate what I’ve learned in the 10 months or so since [...]
Posted in Facebook, Internet, New Media, Social Media Also tagged advertising, Collaboration, Facebook, intranet, Social Media, social networking, Social Networks, socialmedia, word of mouth Leave a comment
Overcoming Barriers with the Spartans