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In this next installment of Social in Business we focus on Strategy.
Hopefully the thesis of this post shouldn’t knock your socks off; in a nutshell, businesses need a social software strategy in order for the social in business to be successful at the firm.
Want to reach the holy grail of an e-mail free working environment? In reality what you’ll likely find, especially if you do the strategy legwork, is that the goal is not getting rid of e-mail. Rather, the goal is to improve e-mail usage so that it is not a drag on productivity. And yes, social tools can help with that. That goal, however, will never be… Continue reading: Social in Business: Rubber meet Road
More input from Brian Solis at Altimeter Group on the “you” in social in business:
Everything you see in social networks is unique to you because you are at the center of the entire experience. This is why I lovingly refer to social media as the Egosystem. By design, everything revolves around you. Your friends, co-workers, the businesses and organizations you support, are linked to by you. You have become the ringmaster of your personal connectivity and in many ways, serve as the IT department not only for yourself, but also the people who rely upon you to ease their way into the egosystem. You know better than anyone what… Continue reading: Enterprise Social Networking is More Than Facebook Behind a Firewall
This is the third post in the Top Dog/Elguji Social in Business blog series. The first post was entitled “Social in Business: What we are talking about” and the second was entitled “Social in Business: Build it and they will come (?)“.
Today we focus on Objectives.
So if you’ve followed my blog (or other similar minded bloggers) you’ve likely come across one of my occasional rants about the pitfalls of buying technology for technology’s sake. This is sort of one of those posts in this installment of “Social in Business”, Objective.
It’s hard to pick a technology, even an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink type of technology as social software, if you don’t… Continue reading: Social in Business: What are we doing here anyway?
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