December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 27th
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Fast Company: Work Smart: Fighting Your Way To Creative Breakthroughs https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowlacC/fast_company/CAIiEPm3MjCwTOEHATwM8BEWOJQqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowlacCMKBPMOGbAg/work_smart%253A_fighting_your_way_to
Dec 24th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“Gamification should be about rewarding people for what they already want to do,...”
– Andy Ellwood at MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 5 summit (via curiositycounts)
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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IBM’s Social Business Predictions for 2012 →
For Social Business, 2011 was a year of exploration, experimentation and in some cases innovation.  Both small and large organizations in a variety of verticals globally began to realize the power of bringing social behaviors, processes and platforms behind the firewall. According to a 2011 AIIM survey, over 50% of organizations now consider social business to be imperative or significant to their...
Dec 9th
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Become a Social Business →
With newspaper circulations down, television commercials easily skipped and social media the number one activity on the web, brands are naturally following the crowd by going ‘social’ and joining millions of people online. They’re setting up Twitter accounts and Facebook pages. They’re getting on Google+ and even dipping their toe into LinkedIn. Some have started blogs and created Flickr or Vimeo...
Dec 8th
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Socialize Me: New IBM Champions Announced →
Joyce Davis has just posted an announcement in the Social Business Insights Blog. You will remember that earlier this year, IBM announced 50 new IBM Champions. Joyce provides a great summary of what we look for in IBM Champions: These individuals spend a considerable amount of time, energy, and resources evangelizing for IBM, sharing their knowledge and helping grow the community of users and...
Dec 8th
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The Life of a Community Manager: Just because you... →
Launching and maintaining an internal social network at The McGraw-Hill Companies has been an exciting learning experience. In my “The Life of a Community Manager” series, I will highlight key aspects that have been central in my experience as a community manager. “If you build it, they… via thesocialshift:
Dec 7th
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“Faced with a choice between a ‘competent jerk’ and a ‘lovable fool’ as a work...”
– This was the finding of a research study documented in an article from 2005 in the Harvard Business Review called Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools, and the Formation of Social Networks (PDF). A fascinating insight six years ago that is only more relevant today as companies’ interest in social media...
Dec 7th
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“The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about...”
– MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito on innovating by the seat of our pants. Related, the untold story of how MIT Media Lab became a mecca for innovation. (via curiositycounts)
Dec 6th
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“This traditional, one-way marketing doesn’t work anymore. Consumers are already...”
– Become A Social Business - Forbes
Dec 6th
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“ABC fired its programming chief for green-lighting Lost. Howard Schultz shrugged...”
– Meet The Disrupters (via fastcompany)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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