Business Communication Today, 13th Ed.
Chapter 8. Social Media
The benefits of a great blog are well-known: branding, user acquisition, press, conversions, hype.
Social media is not here to save you.
A global bank executive recently described to us a challenge for our times.
According to a recent study by Proskauer, 25% of businesses do not allow social media use at work and 26.
How can you use Twitter most effectively?
“Most people just start doing things without reading the instruction manual.
Long-time readers might recall that a few years ago, I wrote an editorial titled "Email: Bad Bearer of Bad News?
When it comes to legal issues, most bloggers are either unaware or misinformed about the laws that they operate under.
Take a look at this Forbes.
"While Facebook gets all the glory (and a fair amount of criticism) for frequent revisions to its service, LinkedIn keeps quietly getting better," said Paul Gillin.
Doug Gross (CNN.
In this video Brian Solis interviews Tyler Cyr, Dunkin' Brands' web communications manager, on "how social media helps continue and improve the Dunkin’ experience.
Jim Lodico, writing for SocialMediaExaminer.
"I think everyone should blog, especially entrepreneurs," says Dan Reich (photo, left).
"What if I told you the most important 140 characters you write on Twitter aren’t your actual tweets, but your Twitter bio?
"Social media is about more than marketing and branding — it’s quickly becoming an essential part of customer outreach for brands.
An overview to social networking sites & their usage for job search.
An overview to social networking sites & their usage for job search.
Follow LinkedIn’s etiquette guide for students and recent graduates to increase your response rate and to maintain positive networking connections.
Facebook Pages are the service that companies use to build a presence on Facebook.
I want to talk about the transformed media landscape, and what it means for anybody who has a message they want to get out to anywhere in the world.
About This Talk
The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to building a friendlier, more connected world.
In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone).
Get a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a new business, Artisan Flavors Ice Cream, and how its owner is exclusively using social media and electronic communication for promotion, including videos (YouTube), podcasts (iTunes), press releases (PRNewswire), maps (Google), photos (Flickr), conversations (Twitter, Facebook), blogs (WordPress), and reviews (Yelp).
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action, and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.