Professionals create a lot of specialized information that is locked within the organization and inaccesible to others. This could be much more of an asset then is currently the case for many organizations. Some suggestions and practical guidelines on unlocking the power of this knowledge for commercial purposes.
The problem with Google Wave is not so much on the technological side as it is in the distribution model.This month Google said it will drop the experimental service Google Wave.”Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” said Google senior vice president Urs Holzle in a blog post.Clearly Google Wave offers a promising combination of technologies, allowing you to chat, share, bookmark and collaborate in all kinds of other ways in a single stream of activity.Had Google taken a more open approach to the product’s introduction with many more third party plugins and options, more along the lines of Twitter’s business model, I think the product might have been a success.
With so many Social Media out there: create accounts for the right reasons. These twelve ultra short reviews give you the main capabilities and drawbacks of each site in a few sentences each and links to an instant network and relevant tools.Part III in a series.
In this post you’ll find a dozen very short reviews of Social Media networks and tools: their advantages over other networks and capabilities that you may be looking for. You can immediately see an example of this by following the links in each review. If you are looking for an instant network on each site: feel free to join our groups on each of them to find other Social Media Explorers.
Networking is supposed to be fun but with the growing number of Social Networks and profiles we have to keep up to date, the commercialization of platforms and the huge amounts of spam and other uninteresting or even damaging crap we are bombarded with: is it still…fun?
By taking control of our online data and having access to it in a single place we could:
Since we all spend so much time using and enjoying Social Media, I would like to give those of you that haven’t seen it yet a tip: www.flock.com has enhanced it’s browser for optimum social media usage.
Blogging can be a very fulfilling activity: but what’s the point of laughing out loud at our own wit when no one else reads our posts? The sad reality of many blogs is that they are not read at all. So much for your hard work…
Now SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an industry for a reason: it’s too boring and complicated for anyone to be interested in pursuing it seriously except SEO experts and nerds. So let’s look for a quick and easy fix for mere mortals!
Trying to combine Business and Social Media can feel like a slippery slide as mixing friendship and business holds some risks: nobody wants to risk a friendship for a crappy product and nobody wants to offend their friends by saying no to them. So: what if we could reduce this risk? What would it take to make this risk into a negligable calculated risk? Basically it all comes down to ballistics…
Internet in general and Social Media in particular hold the promise of a sense of frictionless and effortless movement through a world without obstacles between you and your success: but are they? Here are some easy shortcuts to avoid financial, social and technological obstacles and turn them to your advantage.
Facebook’s versatile micro-blogging service FriendFeed and Twitter’s trendsetting service have put micro-blogging in the forefront of the Titanic struggle for domination of the internet by some of the largest Social Media sites. But what does Google bring to the table when it comes to Micro-Blogging? Buzz…
If ever there was a great metaphor for Social Media this must be it: we each contribute something to a seemingly random structure of words, thoughts, code, images and before you know it we’ve created something from nothing: solid ground to stand on and in our case do actual business on.
With these five alternatives you can prevent the cost of your Social Media usage to spiral out of control. Wether you are looking for ways to create a powerful online presence that you host yourself, are interested in making new business friends or are looking for ways to monetize your online presence: this blogpost offers a number of viable alternatives to suit your needs.
The surprisingly intricate Science of The Retweet may give you some new ideas on how to utilize Twitter and Twitter search as a resource for your business.Find out about the best URL shorteners, keywords and other statistics on the best ways to attract attention with your tweets and how you can influence the likelyhood that you are being retweeted.
Executives all over the world are inundated with an endless stream of information. Digital files, hard copy documents, pictures and videos are constantly coming in or out of an office. Collecting, organizing, archiving and retrieving such information is becoming a common challenge, especially, when critical and immediate decisions have to be made. Solutions…
Managing Your Presence On Many Social Media: A Problem? Not at All!
Lately I have seen messages of people on all kinds of networks saying they can’t manage their presence on all those networks anymore and are leaving some of them because they simply can’t manage it anymore.You can save a lot of time networking if you do it a certain way: the easy way!
Five tools to save time networking while maintaining an effective presence on a large number of Social Media.
What can ordinary small business people learn about the adoption of social media for business purposes from trends in the social media markets such as the recent purchase of FriendFeed by Facebook and the rise of Twitter?
The HOB.Biz now has it’s own Online Office Collaboration Space where you can edit and share many kinds of documents and even websites. All of these capabilities are fully integrated with MS Office environment and you can edit and store the documents from within MS Word, Excel etc. It’s called The HOB Networker PRO Silver Edition and is part of a series of solutions for professional networkers as well as networking professionals.
Our “Instant Network” principle might be of significance to your own networking efforts:
The principle is best encaptured in the My Social Media page.
On this page you can choose an activity or subject on the basis of which you can make a selection in a large number of internet clubs and social media which you can log into directly.
But that’s not all: each of the social media has (or will have) a companion Social Media Club in The HOB.Biz as well as The House Of Business or The HOB.Biz facilities on the network itself.
This not only means that we have about twice as many members: it also makes it excessively easy to find a network of people you know wherever you go and instantly be in the know about how to best use and benefit from networks, social media and internet-clubs,and other insider information!
In business school one of the most iconic examples of the failure of a technologically superior product at the hand of a technologically inferior product cited is that of the Philips Video 2000 facing Sony’s VHS system. The reason cited: that Sony was smart enough to make sure thousands of video’s were available for it’s inferior system where Philips paid less attention to distribution and more to technological development. Consequently the VHS system reigned for a decade and the Video 2000 withered away. The one system starts from a top down engineer’s mindset, the other from a bottom up user interest approach. Similarly social media generate huge amounts of content: to each his own, where websites who don’t cater for user interaction have less content and fail to cater to each individual’s taste.
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Every sales person could tell you that a client gives of signals and that those who know how to play into them could sell a refrigerator to an eskimo. But: do you really want to sell fridges to eskimos? Wouldn’t you rather control which precise audiences you target? A well defined target audience could be the solid basis of your organization’s success. But it doesn’t stop there…What about Social Media?
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