Corporate Social Networks
Social Business: how advanced is your organisation?
Based on research from 120 or so web strategists from large corporate companies, this research from Altimeter Group has some interesting content, not least the “Maturity level” test, enabling organisations to benchmark their current position. How Corporations Should Prioritize Social Business Budgets View more documents from Jeremiah Owyang
Paid Social Media Internships
We’re currently working with pan-European executive recruiter MRL Group on their Corporate Social Networking / Social Recruiting strategy. As part of this programme, MRL are recruiting Twinters – paid social media internships – for their Hove (nr. Brighton) HQ. Full details below / here , please do share with anyone you feel relevant. Twinterns (Social [...]
LinkedIn Signal
LinkedIn Signal should be available for most of you today. If you haven’t already seen it, it allows you to create live, dynamic searches for topics of interest to you – just like a twitter search for #socialmedia will show live conversations around so that topic, so you can now save relevant searches via Signal. [...]
The Social Collective Conference 2010
Our very own Paul Harrison is putting the finishing touches to his presention for tomorrow’s Social Collective Conference where he will be keynoting on social opportunities for brands in 2011. Paul will be discuss the tools and thinking that will shape how brands and customers use social media in the coming year: from location-based services [...]
Can you separate online, offline, professional and private social networks
This is an enlightening presentation for anyone who is involved in social networking by Paul Adams, a UX researcher from Google. Probably most relevant for someone who’s daily actions can be fairly consistently tracked on Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter and particularly those who want to keep their personal and professional lives separate online. The Real [...]
The State of LinkedIn : Latest (impressive) Figures.
Here’s a nice graph showing LinkedIn’s ( the world’s largest professional networking tool ) state today : http://tinyurl.com/34sjvd6
Unvarnished: Lastest in online reputation management
So, what do we all think of the new website Unvarnished? Described as a cross between LinkedIn and Yelp it allows anonymous reviews of your personal professional reputation. For those who have decided to keep their ‘personal’ social networking profiles (Facebook, MySpace etc) separate from their professional profiles (LinkedIn, Xing etc) this will make it [...]
3 social media models – what’s right for your company?
In a great article from Advertising Age, Kunur Patel looks at the different social media models emerging in the corporate world: 1. Centralised – social media role functions at a senior level as used by Ford 2. Distributed – everyone in the organisation has a role in social media as seen at Best Buy 3. [...]
Social Media in Recruitment
Carve was asked last year to contribute a chapter to the Social Media in Recruitment guide, following a well received presentation I made on Corporate Social Networking ( where ‘Social Media meets Business’ ) at the British Library. Our chapter is focused on ‘Developing an Effective Corporate Social Networking Strategy‘ and draws on our experiences [...]
LiveLABS @ TruLondon
On Thursday and Friday this week I’ll be leading two tracks at TruLondon (http://thetruconferences.com/) that we hope will turn into something pretty special. We’ve been operating LiveLABS for a while now as part of our active facilitation / corporate social networking programmes, where we use our tools and best practice frameworks to address real social [...]