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Social Media for Non-Profits and Special Causes - 2012 Edition

Thanks to the Canadian Parents for French for inviting SocialMedia404 to participate in their AGM by delivering 2 sessions on Social Media for Non-Profits and Special Causes.

HR 1.0 vs. Employee Wellness 2.0

We’ve been asked to do some research on how social technologies are, and will, impact the new U.S. health care reform in a couple of different areas.  One of the areas we are focusing on is Employee Wellness.
Our experience in working with many Human Resource (HR) departments over the years, is that most have a [...]

WEForum 2010 – Technology for Society

The World Economics Forum 2010 has just wrapped up in Davos, Switzerland.  I was watching the session on Technology for Society, a panel discussion with some notable participants from the public and private sectors, including Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
They spoke of advances, directions, barriers and issues.  Interesting perspectives which occasionally outlined a future with [...]

Social Media ROI – (Half) The IDC Story

New Marketing Labs posted an interesting interview on their blog with Miriam Kutcher, VP of Marketing at research firm IDC Insights about their new community launched last March.  Miriam and a group of IDC analysts worked for most of 2009 establishing the community to address needs in their research verticals.
She generously shares their goals and [...]

WARNING: Social Media Is In Your Workplace

Today, I gave a presentation to about 100 employers from all types of organizations, regarding Social Media In The Workplace.
The big message?  The reasons Social Media is there, and will continue to grow, are as plain as the nose on your face(book).

Social Media At Work

While Social Media continues to dominate the organizational functions of marketing/sales, and externally focused communications, there remains enormous opportunity for these new tools, new thinking, within the enterprise.
This article has an initial look at why you should be thinking inside the box.

Designing for the Community eXperience (CX)

In Decmber of 2007, I first blogged about the Community eXperience (CX), over on a personal site I had set up, CXMatters.com. It was back in the days when SocialMedia404 was just a twinkle in the eye.
I’m conducting a client workshop in the morning, talking about social media, and community. Many mistakenly consider [...]