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Return on Involvement: what people want

24 February 2010

I talk about the new ROI (return on involvement) a lot – maybe too much? Not enough? I don’t know, you tell me…. But if I wanted to sum up one benefit each for small and larger organisations then: Small is the new big For small businesses, successfully competing in a local market will come [...]

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Ubiquity, value and change

7 February 2010

You build a community, you create and share great content and identify things that are ‘ahead of the curve’. So how do you inspire others to do your storytelling for you? This sounds challenging and many will think that to do so is time consuming, but only because they see it as ‘additional work’ on [...]

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What happens when the media becomes social

6 February 2010

And social becomes the media? What does this mean for brands in the social media space? Basically, it means that social media (SoMe) can’t be viewed as a place to be seen, it’s not another media space, it’s a behaviour… It also means that brands, business etc shouldn’t just start throwing money at it – [...]

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Travelling Books

5 February 2010

I was having a chat with my friend Andrew today, and he brought to my attention a website which I think is a fantatsic idea – and one which has a worldwide community. The site is Book Crossing, and it’s aim is to make the world one big library…! How? Register with Book Crossing and [...]

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It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it

26 January 2010

I blogged at the weekend on the importance of being social. But employers, business mangers, owners etc worry about employees using social media without understanding that it can be as important as say going for a round of golf and by the 18th hole a deal has been struck, or holding a ‘meeting’ in the [...]

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