New Social Media Case Studies... Newly added to Social Media Case Studies the Hot List – I really must sort this list out soon!    Namecheap O’Reilly study on using Twitter to drive sales Auto-Transporter.com not really social media but good article on usability and doubling conversion rates by using ClickTale to gather...
Google Mail Panic? – Not with Thun... Twitter is going berserk as Gmail is down. Funny that it works just fine via Thunderbird! Download Thunderbird and set for IMAP Technorati Tags: Gmail, Thunderbird,...
Critical Media – freewill and the ... One element of social media that intrigues me is the apparent lack of engagement between Theory minded people and industrial (for want of a better word) social media. I suspect, in fact I strongly suspect that I’m missing a lot of what’s going on here, but when I search on say Baudrillard and...
McKinsey's Six of the Best for Web ... Straight in after Deloitte, McKinsey enter the fray with a piece ‘Six ways to make Web 2.0 work‘ that I can only describe as ‘awesome’. And I use that word advisedly and often chuckle when my North American pals use it for what we’d describe in London as ‘jolly...
12 tips for a successful internal comms ... In a previous role I was lucky enough to manage an Internal Comms video channel aimed at our field sales force. The channel’s aim was to deliver short video messages that were business-aligned, relevant, timely and targeted. Topics covered in these videocasts included sales updates, product launches,...
Harnessing 'Enterprise Social Netwo... Facebook for the Fortune 500 Following on from my post on what we should call social media inside the firewall “What should we call ‘Intranet Social Media’?“ My peers (and Twitter pals) from various enterprises in Europe and the Americas have suggested the following: Collaborative Media,...
How to make a bean online!... Cat Poo Coffee As promised on Twitter, this blog entry is all about coffee beans and how one business is making money online selling them. Two days ago I started to Google for some coffee beans as I was getting low and quite fancied trying some ‘cat poo’ coffee, Kopi Luwak. A few Googles soon put...
Profiles in the Enterprise... Just been looking at Shiv Singh’s preso on Web 2.0 and the Enterprise: Web 2.0 and the Enterprise: A Symbiotic Relationship    View more presentations from shivsingh. (tags: timeshifting trust) There’s a good engagement on it re informality and spontaneity of collaboration at Frogpond. What...
Conversation Internal Revolutions... Charlene Li has posted a great new preso on “How to Spark A Conversation Revolution – AND Keep Your Job“. With my recent threads in mind, I look through it and start to cross-reference the slides to how they might look if the target was our internal employee audience rather than our...
The perigrinations of internal social me... When I used to lecture, I used to find that the areas I at least thought I knew the most about could often be the most difficult to create a good half hour on. This little essay proves the point and I thought it would be an easy follow-on from what so far, has been my most responded to post. It takes up...