Brent MacKinnon's List: SoMe - Mod 3 Tools

A suite of listening tools for non profits

"Even the mainstream training field is realizing that reduced layers of bureaucracy mean decision-making gets pushed down the organization chart. This is the message of the AMA in the promotional video – Critical Thinking: Not just a C-suite skill. However, wirearchy takes this one important step further by advocating a two-way flow of power and authority. In both cases, the need for critical thinking is evident. Here is Edward Glaser’s definition:"

From BBC Business

Managing social media accounts can be a full-time job, especially with an extensive Web presence spanning sites from Twitter and Facebook to WordPress and YouTube. Posting the same link or update to each site can be time consuming and inefficient. But used judiciously, a number of tools now let you engage with your community across multiple platforms with a single click — and sometimes for free.

Some may hope that they can earn more revenues from advertisers, while others are mostly concerned with the best method of sharing themselves with others. Regardless of the reason, it definitely helps to review information of your blog distributions, readers’ trends, the blogging economy, etc. There’s no better way to represent complex information like these in a visually pleasing infographic.

However, what you get when you set up a WordPress blog can be pretty basic depending on the theme you choose. To make your new blog sing and work for you, it’s a good idea to install some key plugins.

In this article, we present links to basic information explaining these tools.  In later articles, we’ll provide advice and resources to help businesses get started in using these tools effectively. Click on the Social Media tool category below to get a basic understand of each:
Read more: http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/socialmediabeginnersguide/social-media-tools-101/#ixzz1EWnFuStw

A World Without Email – Year 3, Weeks 29 to 51 (The Email Starvation Continues…)
Posted on Jan 29, 2011 | Categories: Collaboration, Communities, Enterprise2.0, IBM, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Tools, Personal KM, Productivity Tools, Social Computing | 13 Comments

Excellent list of 5 reasons why...But do these systems work? And why might trying to bring social tools inside your gated corporate walls fail? Here are just a few reasons for corporate social networking failure — and ways to avoid them..

When was the last time you exchanged ideas with dozens of people from around the worldon a topic that matters to you or your company? When was the last time you received un-filtered, free and immediate comments from clients, staff or other stakeholders?

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Looking for a broadcast email tool?  Groundwire has created the report for you.  Groundwire, a nonprofit consulting firm, helps to create technology that engages people, organizations and communities in building a sustainable society.  In this report, they take a close look at 10 Email Service Providers, and offer advice on how to evaluate the various price points and feature sets.

Yammer best practices

The tickets were free — but with one hitch. They had to tweet about their visit.

For Ms. Oliveri and more than 60 other people who participated in the museum’s first Tweetup on Jan. 12, sharing their experience in real time was hardly a burden.

We Are Visible how to videos - great youtube vids

"Community Champion Shares Clues on Connecting "

"A friend who is a reader of Fixes recently told me she was often frustrated by the column. She doesn’t run a nongovernmental organization or design products to help bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers get drinkable water. She isn’t going to take six months to volunteer in Nepal. She’s a New Yorker with a job — what can she do, she asked, to contribute to changing the world?"

Advocacy Online

"I think there are few on this planet who don’t recognize that the Facebook phenomenon is staggering in its reach and sheer volume of people. (One guy just named his baby Facebook!) But it’s hard to not gape at some of these numbers (from SocialHype and OnlineSchools.org) These user statistics are more social proof that this beast is not a fad."