Social Media & Communities

  • Career and Job Hunting Advice

    How Well Does Monster.com Help Prepare You for Your Job Hunt?

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    Customers often need preparation in order to value your offerings. We look at how Monster.com prepares members before they actively start searching for jobs. The lessons learned can apply to any organization.
    Apr. 26, 2012
    Strategies
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  • When and How to Embed Customer Co-Design into Your Projects

    What Customer Co-Design Options Fit Your Purview?

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    We have found at least six opportunities to embed customer co-design into the projects you’re already doing. Our recommendation? Use customer co-design early and often.
    Apr. 19, 2012
    Strategies
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  • Social-Service Evaluation Framework

    Products that Monitor Social Posts, Identify Customers’ Questions and Problems, and Help Deliver Answers and Solutions

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    Our framework for evaluating social-service products that help organizations deliver customer service to the social web has four top-level criteria: customer service best fit, analytic functionality, customer service integration, and viability.
    Apr. 5, 2012
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  • Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?

    Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do

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    Facebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked.
    Mar. 22, 2012
    Strategies
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  • Unintended Risks of Using Facebook

    Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!

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    Be a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices.
    Mar. 8, 2012
    Strategies
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  • Attensity Analyze and Attensity Respond

    Multi-Channel Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction

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    Attensity Analyze and Attensity Respond provide multi-channel (social web and internal channel) monitoring, analysis, and interaction. Powerful, patented text analytics are the offerings’ key characteristic, strength, and differentiator.
    Mar. 1, 2012
    Technologies
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  • Salesforce Radian6

    Social Network Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction

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    Radian6 is both a company—a division of Salesforce.com—and a social service platform that delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and, through the Radian6 Social Hub, integrates with Salesforce Service Cloud case and account management.
    Jan. 26, 2012
    Technologies
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  • RightNow Social Experience

    Monitoring, Analyzing, and Interacting in the Social Cloud

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    RightNow Social Experience is the social-service component of the RightNow CX suite. It delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and integrates seamlessly with the CX’s case, knowledge, and account management capabilities.
    Dec. 15, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Build Community Around "My Stuff"

    How Will Online Communities and Social Networks Evolve?

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    Online customer support communities and social networks need to be integrated into the tools that customers use to manage their stuff.
    Nov. 10, 2011
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  • ConnectedN's Content Curation for Social Media Engagement

    Enabling Busy Subject Matter Experts to Deliver Valuable Content to Clients and Prospects

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    Content curation for social media engagement. Product review of ConnectedN, a content curation platform that enables professionals to easily engage in social media conversations by making timely comments on relevant third-party content.
    Mar. 24, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Using Smartsheet to Work with "Customers"

    The Center for Cartoon Studies and the New York Charter School Association Extend a New Project Management Tool to Solve Problems For and With Their "Customers"

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    The New York Charter Schools Association and the Center for Cartoon Studies have adopted the cloud-based, spreadsheet-like Smartsheet collaborative project management tool to solve significant problems for their customers.
    Mar. 3, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Why the Huffington Post Is Successful

    Engaging Your Audience as Active Contributors and Promoters Was Baked into Its DNA

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    The Huffington Post became a successful, profitable online media property for seven good reasons. Most of these best practices are applicable for anyone providing online content.
    Feb. 17, 2011
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  • Why Quora Is Useful (and Addictive)

    Crowdsourced Q&A Community Builds a Knowledge Repository

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    Why is Quora a useful Q&A site for businesspeople and professionals and how should you use it?
    Feb. 3, 2011
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  • Accidental Billionaires?

    Is Ben Mezrich’s Depiction of Facebook’s History Worth Reading?

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    The Accidental Billionaires, and the corresponding movie, The Social Network, aren’t about social networking. They are about the bad feelings among the people who were involved in the emergence of Facebook as a business.
    Nov. 11, 2010
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  • Facebook Tries to Clean Up Its Privacy Act

    Can Facebook Users Really Expect Any Privacy Protections?

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    Will Mark Zuckerberg pay attention to customers' desire to control the information they share through applications that connect with the Facebook platform?
    Oct. 14, 2010
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  • Online Community Platform Company and Product Update 1H2010

    A Solid Period of Stability and Hiring

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    The first half of 2010 was a good stretch for the 12 companies on our watch list. Many saw steady, if not increased, customer acquisition. Hiring was strong (and remains so), and product development continued at a rapid pace.ion Available
    Sep. 2, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Going Social Globally: A Global Perspective on Customer Relationships and Social Media

    An Interview with Bill Decker, Principal, Partners International

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    According to Bill Decker, going social globally means understanding the relationships between company and customer and how they vary from culture to culture. Through diverse examples, Decker gives recommendations on avoiding common cultural pitfalls.
    Aug. 5, 2010
    Strategies
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  • AIP UniPHY: Creating a Professional Social Network

    How the American Institute of Physics Is Creating Value Add for Its Members

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    How do you build a social network for professionals? The American Institute of Physics is paving the way by pre-populating the profiles and network connections of physics experts based on the research papers these experts have co-authored.
    Mar. 4, 2010
    Strategies
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  • Lithium Social CRM Suite

    On-Demand Platform for Supporting Customer Communities

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    Lithium Technologies’ Social CRM platform is an impressive set of SaaS applications interconnected via search, ratings and rankings, and many other integrated components. If your customer base is sizable enough, we recommend Lithium for your short list.
    Nov. 19, 2009
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  • How Customer-Centric Visionaries Make Information Valuable

    Make Information Actionable and Connect People to People

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    Visionaries—ebusiness leaders—take content very seriously. They don't just post it; they make it multi-dimensional and actionable.
    Jun. 2, 2009
    Strategies
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