Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Social Media employee policies help employers in states that don't enforce recreational activity protections

Sample Corporate Social Media Policy

May 19th, 2010 | Leadership, Motivation, Social Media | Chris | View Comments

Does your company have a corporate policy on employee use of social media? If you have over 15 employees and still don’t, you might want to consider sliding a clause or two into your next revision of the employee handbook, just to be on the safe side.

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Meet Leslie Joy, the Social Media Mercenary

May 10th, 2010 | Administration, Leadership, Social Media | Chris | View Comments

This weekend I received and incredibly polite email from a woman named Leslie Joy. She had seen a post I’d made on the Outright entrepreneur community mentioning virtual assistants. To my surprise, she showed incredibly follow through my visiting my website and sending me a message, letting me know a bit about her, and that if I had any questions about hiring a VA I could discuss it with her, so when I was ready to I would be a few steps further ahead. Wow! Talk about proactive! That’s the type of attitude I love…

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Offended by social media marketing done poorly

Eight (More) Ways to Ruin your Social Media Marketing

March 18th, 2010 | Advertising, Leadership, Marketing, Publicity | Chris | View Comments

Businesses just don’t get social media. As a rule, a business can’t. A business is a non-feeling entity, whereas a social group is composed of individuals interacting with one another. The people in the business, therefore, *can* get it. Think about it: although you can install a quick plug-in to automatically tweet and ping all of your networks for you, eventually you need some authentic content behind it that gets put out there for the world to see. The question is, who in your organization is that person who takes the time to create it, and what is it that they’re making in the process?

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New Digg faster and improved

New Digg Faster, No Log-In Required

March 14th, 2010 | Administration, Advertising, Marketing, Publicity, Tools | Chris | View Comments

That’s right. Popular social new site Digg is reported to be undergoing an overhaul that will change the fundamental way the system works. No longer are users required to be logged in to submit an article for Digging, and as a bonus, Digg is looking at new ways to reward submitted sites with traffic without having to make the main page.

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