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Social Media for Business: 3 Winning Lessons
02/18/2009 - 14:00
02/18/2009 - 15:00
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Join us for this free online session
Social media is fundamentally changing the way people and businesses communicate and interact—as evidenced in recent books by acclaimed authors Don Tapscott (Grown Up Digital) and Barry Libert (Barack, Inc.).
Join the authors for a live, interactive conversation as they discuss companies already using social media to achieve success and share the lessons every business leader can learn and apply using social media to:
• Build brand visibility & awareness
• Empower workforce
• Generate business results and achieve a competitive edge
Social Media Marketing for Business Seminar
Gravity Summit will present an agenda that combines an overview of social media marketing tools and “real-world” experience from social media marketing managers representing these well-known brands. This full-day, fast paced ‘immersion program’ will help educate and inform the business community on how best to approach and maximize the social media marketing tools. Go to: http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=3221
Social Media images clarify
Making friends in social media. Good tweak to famous JFK quote explains "prosumerism".
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
As businesses go miscellaneous, information gets chopped into smaller and smaller pieces. But it also escapes its leash--adding to a pile that can be sorted and arranged by anyone with a Web browser and a Net connection. In fact, information exhibits bird-like "flocking behavior," joining with other information that adds value to it, creating swarms that help customers and, ultimately, the businesses from which the information initially escaped.
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 accoutrements are revolutionizing the social order, a development that's cause for more excitement than alarm, argues interactive telecommunications professor Shirky. He contextualizes the digital networking age with philosophical, sociological, economic and statistical theories and points to its major successes and failures. Grassroots activism stands among the winners—Belarus's flash mobs, for example, blog their way to unprecedented antiauthoritarian demonstrations.
