• Archive for July, 2009

    Social Media 2.0 – The Next Generation

    by  • July 24, 2009 • General • 0 Comments

    Organizing Social Media Across Departments Where most businesses start:When companies begin to engage in social media they typically start in the marketing department with some rather tactical marketing campaigns. In those early models a large company either hired some social media “experts” to do the campaign or found some engaged people internally. The rest of [...]

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    Social Media Evolution

    by  • July 24, 2009 • General • 0 Comments

    ComStar, a Cross Functional Organization Model and Strategy for Social Media engagement When companies begin to engage in social media they typically start in the marketing department with some rather tactical marketing campaigns. In those early models a large company either hired some social media “experts” to do the campaign or found some engaged people [...]

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    Spoken Word

    by  • July 16, 2009 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Silicon Valley Offline Social Get Together – July 21 Please join our friend Julie, who runs an awesome restaurant called Neumanalia in a less so obvious place for a great restaurant: Hayward, CA.Next week Tuesday – July 21, 2009 | 7:30 – 10:00 PMFrench / American Cuisine!!!Spoken Word Need a chance to express yourself? Want [...]

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    PayPal Case Study – Social Media Ignorance

    by  • July 15, 2009 • General • 7 Comments

    Paypal was one of the first online payment services and had a great start but over time lost the edge. The company seems to struggle with their internal administration and adjusting their business processes to meet customer needs. Company BackgroundPaypal has 160 million customersTheir support centers work shifts and deal with approximately 60,000 support cases [...]

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    How to start in social media?

    by  • July 14, 2009 • General • 3 Comments

    I get more and more of the very same question: “Axel, I finally decided to get into the social media thing, do you have some advice?” OK – too long ago I started from scratch, so everybody please chime in and add to it. 1) Give your engagement a purpose (other than just trying it [...]

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