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The Executive's Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy, How Social Networks Are Radically Transforming Your Business
Based on dozens of in-depth interviews with top executives and thought leaders at major corporations including IBM, Salesforce.com, Accenture, Intuit, ...

An actionable framework for developing and executing successful social media strategies supporting collaboration, teamwork and communication in modern corporationsUsing straightforward language, this book offers real-world stories and revealing anecdotes to demonstrate how executives and business leaders develop successful corporate social media strategies.High level guidance to developing the practical business frameworks and policies necessary for implementing and managing successful corporate social media strategiesDescribes the actual processes, organizational structures, and technology platforms required to develop and execute a strategy of continuous engagement with customers, partners, and stakeholdersProvides both how-to advice as well as best practices on creating an enterprise social networking strategyOther titles by Barlow: "Partnering with the CIO: The Future of IT Sales Seen Though the Eyes of Decision Makers" An executive...

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Jul 30, 2011
Business Networking in Harlem. Meet Patricia Cesaire from Black Enterprise to discuss Social Media." Must RSVP by 8/1

Cisco Quad offers up enterprise social networking gone mobile

Cisco Live 2011, Cisco demo of its new network of social enterprises app Cisco Quad, which the company hopes will be sold by partners for use on the tablet Cisco Cius among other mobile devices.

Cisco Quad bring social networking, unified communications and collaboration together for shared collaborative workspace, chat, blogs, wikis and more for the communities of the company. Like other unified communications applications, quad aims to improve the efficiency of the company, departing from consumer technologies of social networks are catching up with old friends or post pictures.

"If you think about the types of skills that every individual needs in the workplace to communicate with others, we offer a complete portfolio to take care of that. Everything from video conferencing IP telephony, such as TelePresence, WebEx, high quality video collaboration software and mobility Quad fits perfectly into this box collaboration software, "said Leon Baranovsky, director of business development at Cisco.

Source: SearchNetworkingChannel.com

Complete a Survey on Enterprise Social Networking

by Charlene Li

I’m working on a new Altimeter report on how organizations are using enterprise social networking (ESN) solutions. The report is tentatively titled “Making The Case for Enterprise Social Networking” and looks at how technology platforms like Chatter, Jive, and Yammer are being used within organizations.

Request: Please contribute to Altimeter’s Open Research by  taking this survey . You can sign up at the end to have the report emailed to you when the report goes live. Spread the word on this survey too — we want to have broad participation and also share our research findings with the broader market.

At the core of the research is understanding the goals that companies hope to achieve with the most basic fundamentals of a social network — the ability to have a profile, post an update, and receive notifications. While initially the goals of early deployments were simple – “Let’s connect everyone!” – the space as evolved....

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Creating Custom Social Networks | UX Booth

by Kristina Bjoran

Organizations and niche networks large and small have long been playing around with the idea of using social media to leverage user engagement around specific ecosystems. But in these new, hybridized territories, what can UX designers expect?

While Facebook employees no doubt have Facebook profiles, it’s tough to imagine that they use their own social platform to communicate within the office, especially about company projects, important proprietary data, and so on. What is Facebook’s internal Facebook? Do Google+ engineers use Google+ to chat with each other about secret Google projects?

Creating a specialized or focused social media platform is tough from all angles. Users don’t adopt them quickly, and if they do, interaction and engagement falls off quickly (see iTunes Ping, Walmart’s The Hub, Vital Skate, and many more).

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