Social Media will Disrupt every Function in your Company

We are at an interesting inflection point with Social Media today. One that threatens to disrupt and reinvent every function in your company over the next few years.

Social Media already has changed Marketing forever. You can’t attend a conference or read a blog post without hearing about the latest in this field. Marketing is […]

September 30th, 2009 | Category: | 13 comments

Off Topic … Tribute to Disabled Sailors

2 weeks ago my sons and I had the opportunity to assist at the U.S. Disabled Championship regatta which was being held right here in Greenwich CT. What we thought would be just a weekend filled with helping sailors get into and out of their boats quickly became much more. What we saw not only […]

September 27th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments

Seven Ways To Make Money On Facebook

While Facebook has recently surpassed 300 Million members, marketers are just starting to embrace the social network as a place to do business.

For savvy Facebook marketers, there are tremendous untapped opportunities to making money. From Marketplace sales to application entrepreneurs to direct marketers, Facebook is opening up entirely new business channels for customer interaction. […]

September 22nd, 2009 | Category: | 12 comments

The 1-9-90 rule won’t work for Internal Collaboration

Ok, so you decide to implement an internal microblogging platform like Yammer or Socialcast, or even an internal Wiki platform like SocialText or Confluence.

You go crazy making your business case based on the idea that people will be so much more productive. You sweat the long nights and the hard work that it takes […]

September 15th, 2009 | Category: | 21 comments

Social Product Innovation: 2 Ways

There are 2 ways in which you can use social media to innovate when it comes to developing new products.

1) Product led innovations – here companies like Dell and Salesforce have led the charge in using tools to help them prioritize new product features with IdeaStorm and IdeaExchange (respectfully). These are great for engaging […]

September 10th, 2009 | Category: Strategy | 9 comments

Challenges in Everyone in Your Company being Social

In the last post called Just 4 People doing Social Media? we discussed how social media like email will eventually be in the hands of everyone in your organization. I even put a date on it Jan 1 2012.

But there are challenges to this happening that were not apparent when email rolled out across […]

September 8th, 2009 | Category: | 3 comments

Just 4 People doing Social Media?

Imagine it is New Years Eve 2011, just 2 short years from now and you are having a conversation with a buddy from work and you are remembering the days when your firm only had 4 people actively engaged in Social Media. Its now 2011 and everyone in your company has access to and the […]

September 2nd, 2009 | Category: | 14 comments