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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Social Media: 70% Hype, 30% Business Opportunity - MediaPost
The last few weeks have confirmed it for me: Social media is about 70% hype, and 30% business. I mean that the majority of conversations surrounding social media center on behavior that creates page views but very little actual value to a brand marketer, and therefore little impact on the business of the Internet.
Let’s deconstruct my statement for a bit, because I know many of you will immediately jump to skewer me for this.
The Facebook IPO confirms the space is slightly overvalued. I’m not saying there’s no value here, because there is. I’m saying the waters have gotten frothy and we need a few more years of growth and maturity before we can deem a company like Facebook the future of the Internet ecosystem.
Right now, Facebook feels a little like the Lebron James of the industry: lots of strength, plays an amazing game during the first three quarters, but has trouble finishing and closing out the competition when it matters the most (IPO and brand budgets). Facebook needs to garner more consistent ad dollars from large brand marketers for something with impact. When the dollars going to Facebook come from TV -- or, even more key, from search -- then we can deem it the future, and more important than Google. For now, Google and search win.
Pinterest and SocialCam are omnipresent, but they’re not true vehicles for marketing. They both create oodles of page views and they’re growing like weeds, with more and more people testing ways to spend time there, but they’re not yet proving to be sticky platforms that can keep users coming back after the initial glow fades away. I’ve been on Pinterest for around two years, and I stopped visiting regularly after about three months. The same goes for SocialCam: I visited it a bunch for two weeks, became frustrated by the spammy nature of its interactions with me, and have since leveled off (meaning I never visit it anymore). In both cases my life would still seem very complete if I never visited either platform again.
Business models come and go, while page views continue to increase and social media feels most like a tool for increasing page views. Each week we’re treated to another pundit proclaiming the future of the Web is social. While I agree the future of the Web does integrate social because of the page views and data created by those interactions, I maintain the focus should be paid against mobile, rather than social. Social is about content, but mobile is a delivery platform.
It’s possible that in three years the pendulum for content could swing back to some third-party publisher who creates unique-to-Web, exclusive content and less about person-to-person interaction. The fact remains, content will be delivered increasingly to mobile devices and not just your PC, whatever the content actually is.
Social is a gateway for sharing content in many cases. It’s a gateway to surfacing fun, entertaining or valuable content. Many (if not most) of the social media impressions being generated simply drive traffic to quality third-party content. Is it possible that some other method of surfacing that content will arise? I think so.
Mobile feels like the Kevin Durant of the business. It’s been around a couple of years, it’s been winning a scoring title on the down low, but people still consider it too young to win the title. We all know it’s only a matter of time, but when? Mobile may not win the majority of ad dollars for a number of years, but I think it’s closer than social is (and I think Kevin Durant will win the title this year).
Social is a tool or a resource that feeds the development and delivery of content online, and if I were Facebook, Pinterest or Socialcam, that’s where I would be focusing my efforts. How can my platform fundamentally inform or change the ways that people interact with content from the Web? How can I surface and guide the user to where they want to be, even though they don’t yet know it?
Just think – you and I may not be friends, but there’s a good chance you found this article through social media. We may not have a personal interaction, but social surfaced this content to you. How can you use that information?
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Business fails to realise social media potential - Computer Weekly
Global companies are failing to exploit the business opportunities created by social media.
The B2B sector in particular is failing to spot the benefits and risks of social networking, according to research.
Over half of B2B businesses have no means of tracking conversations about them on social media platforms, according to a survey of over 1,000 global businesses.
The survey, carried out by cloud-based customer experience software maker Satmetrix, found 75% of B2B companies do not measure or quantifying social media activity.
B2C businesses faired a little better, with only 22% having no means of tracking social media conversations and 67% not measuring or quantifying social network references.
Businesses, most notably in the retail sector, are using social media to communicate with potential customers. But 55% of businesses fail to respond to customer feedback.
IDC Retail Insights says 30% of European retailers plan to introduce social media tools in the next two years.
“Businesses recognise the need for a social media strategy, however many are challenged in putting an effective strategy in place,” said Richard Owen, CEO at Satmetrix.
“Whilst 77% of consumers post comments about products, 67% of businesses have no means of measuring what is being said and fewer than one in 20 have any insight into the sentiment of what is being said.”
He said this is a massive lost opportunity. “Not only are companies running the risk of losing customers by not addressing their issues shared online, but they are also walking past the opportunity to capitalise on positive comments made on the social web.”
Andrew Poppleton, managing director of Accenture's UK and Ireland Technology Group, recently told attendees of a HP customer event in London that socially-driven IT is impacting businesses, with some integrating social media into their core systems and processes.
"Instead of interacting with customers only through callcentres, some businesses are adding social media like Twitter as new entry points," said Poppleton.
Suppliers are reacting to this demand. Indian IT services firm Infosys has a platform aimed at supporting enterprise known as iEngage. This supports sales and marketing through ensuring the business is getting the right online information, via social media, to and from customers.
It also links into an eCommerce system which enables customers to immediately buy in the same place as they receive information and then manages the customer's purchase lifecycle.
There is an employee collaboration platform that helps the business share knowledge. This enables information to flow between employees and customers, employees and employees and employees and managers.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
More information: http://www.sports-franchises.com/ or https://www.kickball.com/franchise/contact || A social sports revolution began in 1998 when a group of friends, in search of a way to meet new people and have fun, founded WAKA. Now for the first time ever, they've made franchise territories available, giving driven, business-minded individuals the opportunity to become an owner/operator of one of the most unique concepts around.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Dachis Group Announces Publication of Social Business by Design - msnbc.com
AUSTIN, TX — Dachis Group, the world's leading social software and solutions firm, today announced the publication of Social Business by Design (Jossey-Bass/Wiley Hardcover; May 2012; $29.99; ISBN: 978-1-1182-7321-0), the definitive management book on how to rethink the modern organization in the social media era.
In Social Business by Design, authors and Dachis Group executives, Dion Hinchcliffe and Peter Kim explore how social, cultural, and technology trends have transformed the business environment and how companies can respond with strategy and tactics to benefit from these changes. Dachis Group Founder, President and CEO Jeff Dachis contributed the book's foreword and its content draws on the extensive research and expertise of Dachis Group, which has helped numerous Fortune 500 clients plan, build, and activate effective Social Business solutions.
Written as both a strategic overview and a hands-on resource, Social Business by Design shows how to formulate and implement a Social Business strategy and maximize its impact, with in-depth analysis of the mechanisms, applications, and advantages of Social Business topics including social media marketing, social product development, crowdsourcing, social supply chains, social customer relationship management, and more. These topics are illustrated with examples from high-profile companies including SAP, Procter & Gamble, MillerCoors, Bloomberg, HBO, Ford, and IBM who have implemented Social Business strategies.
"The days of businesses using social media to simply measure likes and followers are long gone," said Hinchcliffe and Kim. "From marketing to sales to product development, social media has the potential to transform business at every level of the organizational chart. By reading Social Business by Design, you can find out how."
Designed especially for large enterprises, Social Business by Design is the first major business book to provide a practical step-by-step guide for traditional organizations on how to realize mature Social Business capabilities that will directly drive growth, revenue, and innovation. Management teams can strategically employ the knowledge in the book as a roadmap to reach maturity with high-impact results and minimum risk.
Additional Resources:
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About The Authors
Dion Hinchcliffe is executive vice president, strategy of Dachis Group. As an enterprise architect, author, blogger, and business strategist, he works with the leadership teams of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 firms to devise strategies to help them adapt their organizations to the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. He has been featured or quoted in CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Forbes, Wired, and BusinessWeek and is a frequent keynote speaker at industry-leading conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0, CeBIT, and the Agile Executive Forum. Hinchcliffe has previously co-founded and operated several thought-leading information technology and management consulting firms, including Hinchcliffe & Company and Sphere of Influence, where he broke new ground in the areas of next-generation information technology, social media, open supply chains, business agility, and emergent Web architectures for large enterprises. He writes about next-generation business at dionhinchcliffe.com and on Twitter as @dhinchcliffe.
Peter Kim is chief strategy officer of Dachis Group. As an advisor on social business, he works with clients on strategy formulation and driving global industry discourse. He has been quoted by media outlets including CNN, CNBC, NPR, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal and has been a featured speaker at events including SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, and Dachis Group Social Business Summits. Kim was previously an analyst at Forrester Research and head of international marketing operations, e-commerce, and digital marketing at PUMA AG. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania. He blogs about Social Business at beingpeterkim.com and on Twitter as @peterkim.
About Dachis Group
Dachis Group is the world's leading social software and solutions firm.
Dachis Group designs, develops, manages, and measures the Social Business performance for the world's leading brands through a combination of Dachis Group's proprietary big data social analytics, SaaS based social intelligence data services, and the world's leading Social Business solutions group.
More than lightweight social broadcast point solutions or commodity social content management systems, Dachis Group helps the world's leading brands by providing the data, insights, and action programs to deliver powerful social engagement at scale.
The company serves over 50% of Fortune 500 brands worldwide including clients Disney, Discover Financial Services, Estée Lauder, Hewlett Packard, IHG, Kodak, Nestlé, Nokia, and Target with a global network of offices employing over 250 professionals around the world.
Each day, the Dachis Group platform monitors 10 billion social behaviors and well in excess of 50 million social signals, including but not limited to comments, posts, tweets, mentions and replies.
Dachis Group's "big data" social analytics platform tracks, monitors and helps manage conversations across 30,000 brands, 100 million social accounts and a combined audience size of 5.2 billion followers, fans and subscribers from 233 countries across dozens of social platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, Google+, Pinterest, Renren, Twitpic, Foursquare, and MySpace, as well as blogs, wikis, forums, BBS, message boards, websites, and thousands of other sources.
Dachis Group Social Software and Solutions
Social Performance Monitor - As the indispensable core of every social marketer's arsenal and built on top of Dachis Group's "big data" social analytics platform, Dachis Group's Social Performance Monitor is the most powerful brand-based social performance measurement, insights, and optimization solution for measuring social media's impact on brand performance.
Advocate Insight - The world's largest and most powerful brands have large numbers of passionate advocates. How do you identify them? Dachis Group's Advocate Insight offers advanced advocate identification and management features and the ability to isolate advocates based on geography, brand, platform, and affinity to specific social accounts of the brand. Advocate Insight then offers analytic tools for analyzing the advocate's impact and the tracking of the brand's engagement with advocates.
Social Business Index - Dachis Group develops and maintains the Social Business Index, providing ongoing real-time ranking, analysis, and benchmarking of Social Business performance for over 25,000 companies and over 30,000 brands tracking their conversations and activity across a social business graph of 100 million social accounts and 233 countries.
Dachis Group designs, develops, manages, and measures global social engagement programs through its customer facing Performance Brand Marketing programs and employee and enterprise facing Connected Company offerings. From social strategy, listening, community, collaboration to advocacy, Dachis Group delivers engagement at scale for its global clients.
As one of the largest Facebook® Preferred Marketing Developer Program partners, through Dachis Group and subsidiaries, Dachis Group has launched hundreds of custom Facebook applications, tabs, and Facebook connect integrations for global clients on the world's largest and fastest growing social network and manages the Facebook presences for many of the world's leading brands.
Dachis Group hosts an ongoing series of annual Social Business Summits around the globe, exploring the most current ideas in Social Business thought leadership, fostering ongoing dialog among participants, and engaging other Social Business practitioners in real-time, in-person, day-long events.
Dachis Group also operates and manages the Social Business Council, the largest peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing community for active Social Business practitioners.
To learn more, register for the Social Business Index, a free service built on Dachis Group's social analytics platform, and sign up for a 1:1 tour of Advocate Insight and Social Performance Monitor at http://social.dachisgroup.com/tour/.
Find out how Dachis Group can help your business, contact inquiries@dachisgroup.com.
We are hiring. Dachis Group is always looking for talented professionals to join our team. Contact opportunities@dachisgroup.com.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
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IBM pushes 'social business'
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GMA Network ?EntertainmentArtist CenterCommunityInternationalRadioFilmsRecordsKapuso FoundationCorporateHomeNewsUlat FilipinoSportsEconomySciTechPinoy AbroadShowbizLifestyleOpinionHumorGMA News OnlineSciTech » Technology IBM pushes 'social business'April 25, 2012 5:58pmCiting the rapid adoption of social networking in business, IBM is pushing efforts to use social business for organizations to gain a competitive advantage. IBM held a "Business Gets Social 2012" in Makati City to help local organizations develop and deepen such skills to accelerate business opportunities. “We Filipinos are inherently social. Being good-natured, good-humored, and witty are key to our being resilient. And this is why we have taken to Social very naturally – and more importantly, we should harness and take advantage of these strengths by taking these same dynamics into business and making it work for us,” said Ferdinand Macatangay, Channels Manager of IBM Philippines' Software Group. But he said social business goes beyond doing marketing on Facebook or Twitter. Rather, he said it is "taking on social dynamics and applying them on business processes - like HR, Marketing, and Compliance." "To become a Social Business, companies are encouraged to adopt a Social Business Agenda - which encompasses having a digital strategy, having policies in place for risk and reputation management and gleaning insight by use of social analytics,” he said. IBM Asia Pacific Messaging & Collaboration Business Unit Executive Chris Haylock added dramatic shifts are taking place as the global network of people becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. "The ways in which people interact, relationships form, decisions are made, work is accomplished and goods are purchased are fundamentally changing,” said Haylock. IBM, as the largest consumer of social technologies, is a case study for this transformation into a social business. As a company, IBM uses social networking to develop products and services, enable sellers to find and stay connected with clients, train the next generation of leaders, and build awareness of Smarter Planet among clients, influencers and other communities. For 15 years, IBM said its employees have used social software to foster collaboration among our dispersed 400,000 person team, "long before Generation Y became fixated with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace." It noted that in 1997, it recommended that its employees get out onto the Internet, at a time when many companies were seeking to restrict their employees’ Internet access. In 2005, the company made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. In 2007, IBM launched Lotus Conenctions, its own social networking software for the enterprise. In early 2008, IBM introduced social computing guidelines to encompass virtual worlds and sharing of rich media. Also in 2008, it opened its IBM Center for Social Software to help IBM's global network of Researchers collaborate with corporate residents, university students and faculty, creating the industry's premier incubator for the research, development and testing of social software that is "fit for business." Social media morphing IBM said social media may be morphing into a key requirement for "social business," including:organizational productivity and culture changeengaging with diverse constituencies of clients and expertsspurring revenue growth and innovation for our global workforce. It presently has one of the largest corporate-wide communities on social media sites. On the other hand, IBM said its social media activity dates back to the 1970s when its mainframe programmers started online discussion forums on the System 370 consoles. Today, IBM views itself as one of the most prolific users of social networking in the industry. Some examples of IBM’s internal social media footprint today include; 17,000 individual blogs 1 million daily page views of internal wikis, internal information storing websites 400,000 employee profiles on IBM Connections, IBM's initial social networking initiative that alllows employees to share status updates, collaborate on wikis, blogs and activity, share files. 15,000,000 downloads of employee-generated videos/podcasts In the first half of 2010, IBM employees participated in more than 126 million minutes of LotusLive meetings, IBM's software for conducting online meetings. More than 400,000 Sametime instant messaging users send 40 to 50 million instant messages per day. "Our social business initiatives have had a profound impact on IBM's business processes and transformation," it added. Among its initatives are: Online Jams: IBM has conducted 50 Jams over the past 10 years. In 2003, IBM held its ValuesJam to develop IBM values. In 2006, its InnovationJam identified business opportunities that preceded Smarter Planet agenda. IBM Legal conducted LawJam in 2007 in support of global functional transformation. Human Resources: social media was used for tech-enabled recruiting, employee education, sales training and leadership development. Leadership Development from an employee's first day on the job. Also, IBM's recent study of 700 Global Chief Human Resource Officers found that financial outperformers are 57 percent more likely than underperformers to use collaborative and social networking tools to enable global teams to work more effectively together and 21 percent of companies have recently increased the amount they invest in the collaboration tools and analytics despite the economic downturn. For global collaboration and development, IBM's Generation Open was built around social business tools, processes and management systems. GenO creates instant communities of global teams to collaborate on projects and products. Project managers, team leaders, consultants and IT architects post projects; people who are in-between assignments or have free time opt into these projects to add their talents and expand their skills. "Today, more than 130 communities of IBM professionals around the globe are collaborating virtually. This has reduced the time it would have taken to complete projects by 30 percent, increased re-use of 'software assets' by 50 percent, and cut component costs by 33 percent," it said. IBM also said it is helping small and medium businesses embrace social media. "Savvy businesses know that creating an online presence can heighten awareness and ultimately bring in new business. What’s often ignored, however, is that without a clear plan and direction in place before a company begins using social media, it can easily fail," it said. It said it has programs to help non-profits and our business partners, who at 100,000 strong are traditionally small businesses, embrace social media. Citing an example, it said it hosts full day workshops, grants, provides toolkits and incentives and free education for business partners on establishing and rolling out effective social media business plans. — TJD, GMA NewsWe welcome healthy discussions and friendly debate! Please click Flag to alert us of a comment that may be abusive or threatening. 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VideosPhotosRadio24 OrasSaksiSONAYouScoopPublic AffairsNews TVContact UsJob ClassifiedsBETA VERSIONApril 27, 2012 | 11:50pm PHL TimeGMA Network ?EntertainmentArtist CenterCommunityInternationalRadioFilmsRecordsKapuso FoundationCorporateHomeNewsUlat FilipinoSportsEconomySciTechPinoy AbroadShowbizLifestyleOpinionHumorGMA News OnlineSciTech » Technology IBM pushes 'social business'April 25, 2012 5:58pmCiting the rapid adoption of social networking in business, IBM is pushing efforts to use social business for organizations to gain a competitive advantage. IBM held a "Business Gets Social 2012" in Makati City to help local organizations develop and deepen such skills to accelerate business opportunities. “We Filipinos are inherently social. Being good-natured, good-humored, and witty are key to our being resilient. And this is why we have taken to Social very naturally – and more importantly, we should harness and take advantage of these strengths by taking these same dynamics into business and making it work for us,” said Ferdinand Macatangay, Channels Manager of IBM Philippines' Software Group. But he said social business goes beyond doing marketing on Facebook or Twitter. Rather, he said it is "taking on social dynamics and applying them on business processes - like HR, Marketing, and Compliance." "To become a Social Business, companies are encouraged to adopt a Social Business Agenda - which encompasses having a digital strategy, having policies in place for risk and reputation management and gleaning insight by use of social analytics,” he said. IBM Asia Pacific Messaging & Collaboration Business Unit Executive Chris Haylock added dramatic shifts are taking place as the global network of people becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. "The ways in which people interact, relationships form, decisions are made, work is accomplished and goods are purchased are fundamentally changing,” said Haylock. IBM, as the largest consumer of social technologies, is a case study for this transformation into a social business. As a company, IBM uses social networking to develop products and services, enable sellers to find and stay connected with clients, train the next generation of leaders, and build awareness of Smarter Planet among clients, influencers and other communities. For 15 years, IBM said its employees have used social software to foster collaboration among our dispersed 400,000 person team, "long before Generation Y became fixated with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace." It noted that in 1997, it recommended that its employees get out onto the Internet, at a time when many companies were seeking to restrict their employees’ Internet access. In 2005, the company made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. In 2007, IBM launched Lotus Conenctions, its own social networking software for the enterprise. In early 2008, IBM introduced social computing guidelines to encompass virtual worlds and sharing of rich media. Also in 2008, it opened its IBM Center for Social Software to help IBM's global network of Researchers collaborate with corporate residents, university students and faculty, creating the industry's premier incubator for the research, development and testing of social software that is "fit for business." Social media morphing IBM said social media may be morphing into a key requirement for "social business," including:organizational productivity and culture changeengaging with diverse constituencies of clients and expertsspurring revenue growth and innovation for our global workforce. It presently has one of the largest corporate-wide communities on social media sites. On the other hand, IBM said its social media activity dates back to the 1970s when its mainframe programmers started online discussion forums on the System 370 consoles. Today, IBM views itself as one of the most prolific users of social networking in the industry. Some examples of IBM’s internal social media footprint today include; 17,000 individual blogs 1 million daily page views of internal wikis, internal information storing websites 400,000 employee profiles on IBM Connections, IBM's initial social networking initiative that alllows employees to share status updates, collaborate on wikis, blogs and activity, share files. 15,000,000 downloads of employee-generated videos/podcasts In the first half of 2010, IBM employees participated in more than 126 million minutes of LotusLive meetings, IBM's software for conducting online meetings. More than 400,000 Sametime instant messaging users send 40 to 50 million instant messages per day. "Our social business initiatives have had a profound impact on IBM's business processes and transformation," it added. Among its initatives are: Online Jams: IBM has conducted 50 Jams over the past 10 years. In 2003, IBM held its ValuesJam to develop IBM values. In 2006, its InnovationJam identified business opportunities that preceded Smarter Planet agenda. IBM Legal conducted LawJam in 2007 in support of global functional transformation. Human Resources: social media was used for tech-enabled recruiting, employee education, sales training and leadership development. Leadership Development from an employee's first day on the job. Also, IBM's recent study of 700 Global Chief Human Resource Officers found that financial outperformers are 57 percent more likely than underperformers to use collaborative and social networking tools to enable global teams to work more effectively together and 21 percent of companies have recently increased the amount they invest in the collaboration tools and analytics despite the economic downturn. For global collaboration and development, IBM's Generation Open was built around social business tools, processes and management systems. GenO creates instant communities of global teams to collaborate on projects and products. Project managers, team leaders, consultants and IT architects post projects; people who are in-between assignments or have free time opt into these projects to add their talents and expand their skills. "Today, more than 130 communities of IBM professionals around the globe are collaborating virtually. This has reduced the time it would have taken to complete projects by 30 percent, increased re-use of 'software assets' by 50 percent, and cut component costs by 33 percent," it said. IBM also said it is helping small and medium businesses embrace social media. "Savvy businesses know that creating an online presence can heighten awareness and ultimately bring in new business. What’s often ignored, however, is that without a clear plan and direction in place before a company begins using social media, it can easily fail," it said. It said it has programs to help non-profits and our business partners, who at 100,000 strong are traditionally small businesses, embrace social media. Citing an example, it said it hosts full day workshops, grants, provides toolkits and incentives and free education for business partners on establishing and rolling out effective social media business plans. — TJD, GMA NewsWe welcome healthy discussions and friendly debate! Please click Flag to alert us of a comment that may be abusive or threatening. Read our full comment policy here.Comments Powered by DisqusadvertisementRelated StoriesFacebook allies with security vendors vs malware, attacksNew email scams spoof Pinterest, LinkedIn, other social networking sitesInstagram nears 50 million downloadsFriendster's new niche: 'social discovery and gaming'Facebook to buy AOL patents from MicrosoftInstagram cracks down on suicidal, self-harm postsSocial media blurring home-office line, workers caught in the middle New Twitter spam leads to fake antivirus attacksSocial media is gold for Olympics advertisers'Click and Save' the sea turtles on Facebook!Related VideosDating social networking site na Friendster, isang gaming portal na ngayonLarawan ng mga nahuling pating at dolphin, kumalat sa internetIlang turistang nag-pose na tila pinagkatuwaan ang krus, umaani ng batikosLarawan ng butanding na sinakyan na parang surfboard, umaani ng batikosadvertisementadvertisementExplore About GMA News OnlineAbout UsContact UsAdvertise with UsCareersOn TVGMA-7 ShowsGMA News TV ShowsTV ScheduleYouScoopNewsNewsUlat FilipinoPinoy AbroadSportsOpinionShowbizEconomySciTechLifestyleHumorCommunity Bulletin BoardMultimediaVideosPhotosRadio--DZBBStay ConnectedRSS FeedMobileToolsSearchArchivesJobs ClassifiedsGMANetwork.comEntertainmentArtist CenterCommunityInternationalRadioFilmsRecordsKapuso FoundationCorporateAll Rights Reserved 2011 © GMA Network Inc.Saturday, April 14, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
More information: http://www.sports-franchises.com/ or https://www.kickball.com/franchise/contact || A social sports revolution began in 1998 when a group of friends, in search of a way to meet new people and have fun, founded WAKA. Now for the first time ever, they've made franchise territories available, giving driven, business-minded individuals the opportunity to become an owner/operator of one of the most unique concepts around.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
More information: http://www.sports-franchises.com/ or https://www.kickball.com/franchise/contact || A social sports revolution began in 1998 when a group of friends, in search of a way to meet new people and have fun, founded WAKA. Now for the first time ever, they've made franchise territories available, giving driven, business-minded individuals the opportunity to become an owner/operator of one of the most unique concepts around.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Social Media Gives Industrial Companies Competitive Advantage, Says Thomas Industrial Network Report
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Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.Saturday, March 24, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
More information: http://www.sports-franchises.com/ or https://www.kickball.com/franchise/contact || A social sports revolution began in 1998 when a group of friends, in search of a way to meet new people and have fun, founded WAKA. Now for the first time ever, they've made franchise territories available, giving driven, business-minded individuals the opportunity to become an owner/operator of one of the most unique concepts around.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
More information: http://www.sports-franchises.com/ or https://www.kickball.com/franchise/contact || A social sports revolution began in 1998 when a group of friends, in search of a way to meet new people and have fun, founded WAKA. Now for the first time ever, they've made franchise territories available, giving driven, business-minded individuals the opportunity to become an owner/operator of one of the most unique concepts around.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities - msnbc.com
TORONTO — Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:
Who:
Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, ValtechJonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
When:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. ESTOR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
To register, please click on one of the following links:
Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM
About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.
For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and http://blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
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IBM Launches Global Boot Camps to Help Small and Midsize Businesses Build Social Media Skills
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the expansion of a global skills initiative to educate clients and business partners on social media tools and techniques to showcase expertise and create new business opportunities. To join in the conversation around IBM's Social Media Boot Camps, visit LinkedIn .
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With today's news, IBM is further investing in its clients and business partners across the world including emerging markets such as China, Australia and Saudi Arabia to develop the skills that will enable them to http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36487.wss sharpen their social networking capabilities to build even stronger and more interactive ties with their clients.
The IBM eight week social media boot camp is available to its business partners to provide the education and skills necessary to successfully engage in social media and begin driving the conversation around their brand. This initiative provides IBM business partners and clients access to one-on-one social media coaches who set measurable goals for building and exercising social acumen.
This customized curriculum is designed for organizations to become more comfortable and effective in their marketing and sales efforts. By using social networking tools and techniques participants learn to integrate social media into their daily business activities.
"Social media and social networking have greatly impacted the way we interact and communicate in our personal lives, how we promote our personal brands," said IBM Spokesperson. "But the real power of these concepts are still in its infancy in the business world. There are limitless opportunities for businesses to engage with their employees, business partners and customers over these social channels to help make better business decisions and reach new markets."
IBM Business Partners Gets Social
IBM Business Partner Starfire Technologies, Inc. was among the first organizations to enroll in IBM's Social Media Boot Camp. Prior to the program, Starfire's use of social media channels was limited. After enrolling in the eight week social skills program, Starfire is now leveraging social channels to re-architect the way it does business.
For example, as a result the tools and techniques offered by the Social Media Boot Camp, Starfire is reconstructing its company website, integrating social media tools and platforms to best interact with customers. The organization has transformed its business strategy by extending its reach through the social networks to create significant interactions and two-way conversations with its customers.
"IBM's Social Media Boot Camp was instrumental in our understanding of how to effectively and strategically engage with our customers and business partners over social media platforms," said Mary Spurlock, Vice President of Marketing, Starfire Technologies, Inc.. "It also taught us enhanced ways to listen to our customers and engage in interactive conversations. We learned to listen on the channels where our business partners and clients are participating, thus helping to identify and move opportunities faster through the pipeline. It's also helped us to create a valuable collaborative forum for marketing and client support."
Reaching Small and Midsize Businesses via Social
The amount SMBs spend on social media is set to almost double in 2012, according to recent market research. Almost two-thirds (64.4%) of SMBs currently market themselves via social media sites; however many still struggle in navigating the appropriate and relevant tools to harness business value for their organizations.
IBM Business Partner Key Information Systems serves SMBs in a variety of industries, encompassing 80 percent of the organization's client base, and agree that while social media is of profound interest to their clients, it is still posing a significant challenge. With Social Media Boot Camp, Key Information Services has not only better educated itself on how to better utilize social media resources, it is now sharing that knowledge with its clients and prospects.
"We're expanding and diversifying the way we connect with clients and prospects and honing in on what's relevant to SMBs," says Director of Marketing Pete Elliot, Key Information Systems. "We're hosting events where small and mid-sized organizations come together to learn about and collaborate on social media strategy. We're reaching new markets with creative social media marketing techniques. The IBM Social Media Bootcamp has helped take our efforts to a whole new level, further opening our eyes to the world of possibility and extending our ability to tap into new markets that we would have never reached without engaging over social media platforms."
After enrolling in IBM's Social Media Boot Camp, Key Information Systems has now integrated social into the work flow processes of every employee. Social has become a priority whether it's blogging or engaging with key constituents over Twitter, employees are dedicated to listening and interacting where their business partners, clients and prospects are talking.
IBM Business Partner Profitecture has played a leading role in working with IBM to deliver their Social Media Boot Camps for Business Partners and their unique process is helping to extend IBM's prowess in guiding organizations' transformation into social businesses.
At IBM's PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM and Profitecture will also host mini Social Media Boot Camp sessions on Thursday, March 1 where more than 100 IBM business partners from across the globe will participate to discuss the opportunities of social media on a global scale. Business partners can also continue to work with their IBM/Profitecture social media coaches after the Boot Camp program for more advanced training or to fine tune their social strategies.
For more information about IBM's Social Media Boot Camps please visit click here.
For details on IBM's social business initiatives, please visit http://www.ibm.com/press/socialbusiness or follow #IBMSocialBiz on Twitter.
Lizette Kodama
IBM Media Relations
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B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities - msnbc.com
TORONTO — Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:
Who:
Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, ValtechJonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
When:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. ESTOR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
To register, please click on one of the following links:
Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM
About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.
For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and http://blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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Social Sports Franchise Opportunity
More information: http://www.sports-franchises.com/ or https://www.kickball.com/franchise/contact || A social sports revolution began in 1998 when a group of friends, in search of a way to meet new people and have fun, founded WAKA. Now for the first time ever, they've made franchise territories available, giving driven, business-minded individuals the opportunity to become an owner/operator of one of the most unique concepts around.
B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities
TORONTO--(Marketwire -02/27/12)- Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.
Jonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
OR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:
Who:
Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, ValtechJonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
When:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. ESTOR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
To register, please click on one of the following links:
Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM
About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.
For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and http://blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.
B2B Social Media Webinar Helps Organizations More Effectively Capture Online Business Opportunities - Market Wire
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February 29 and March 1: Presenters Jonathan Astor and Sheldon Levine Show Attendees How to Identify Untapped Social Media Leads and Turn Them Into Concrete Business Value
TORONTO--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2012) - Social media participation is a given for most businesses today, but generating revenue and ROI continues to be a challenge -- particularly for large B2B organizations with multiple business units. On Wednesday, February 29 and Thursday, March 1 Jonathan Astor, social business lead for international digital agency Valtech, and Sheldon Levine, Sysomos community manager, present "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Value." In this complimentary, one-hour webinar attendees learn how to make the transformation to a social organization that captures and leverages untapped opportunities across the business spectrum.
What:
Free Webinar -- "B2B Social Media: Turning Untapped Conversations into Business Wins"
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webinar and learn about a tactile, tangible approach that can transform social business in your organization:
Who:
Jonathan Astor, Social Business Lead, ValtechJonathan Astor consults with leading B2B and B2C organizations to anchor social media across regional and global business units, building the business case for social media investment through organizational insight, strategy, implementation and analytics. His expertise includes business intelligence ("listening"); content strategy, planning and measurement, including KPI setting; social media engagement and outreach; channel strategy; web integration and traffic generation; social commerce; and center of excellence-creation training. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @ambientallstar
Sheldon Levine, Community Manager, Marketwire + Sysomos
Having emerged as a thought leader in the digital world, Sheldon Levine's engaging communication style helps organizations leverage social media to boost their business success. Through community outreach, new media marketing and public relations, Sheldon illustrates how social media monitoring and analytics lead to improved customer relationships and measurable ROI. With a Masters in Professional Communication, Sheldon has taken his traditional PR training to a new level by waking people up to all that social media can be. Follow Sheldon on Twitter @40deuce
When:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. ESTOR Thursday, March 1, 2012, 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. GMT
Each session is one hour in length and will be archived for later viewing. All registrants receive access to the archived webinar.
To register, please click on one of the following links:
Hashtag for this webinar: #B2BSM
About Marketwire
Marketwire advances the way the world communicates by electronically delivering news and information to traditional, new and social media audiences, including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire maximizes the power of its clients' communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 14,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $5.5 billion of investments under management. The group's investment strategy includes the active ownership of businesses in North America and Europe. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London. For further information visit: www.omerspe.com.
For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and http://blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.
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