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Since I write for multiple blogs and provide blog consulting services to businesses, my work flow in very content heavy. decided the three main sections are one: content monitoring, two: content collecting, assembling, and creation, and three: content publishing and archiving. Step two then reaches into both steps one and step three for new content. This is the second part of a five part series on how enterprise 2.0 tools can work for an enterprise of one, myself in this case.

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These are my personal perspectives only. Monday, December 3, 2007 5 Facebook Lessons to Improve Employee Engagement in Your Company So perhaps your company isnt sold on this whole Myspace/Facebook thing. You may even be hearing the familiar concerns around "lost productivity" and "control of content" that you heard during the explosion of the Web. skip to main | skip to sidebar Rexs Thought Spot Personal Reflections on Innovation & Collaboration in a 2.0 World All comments posted on this blog do not reflect the opinions

I’m Not Actually a Geek May 11, 2008 Do Companies Need Social Media Managers? Filed under: mba — Tags: enterprise 2.0 , social media , web 2.0 — Hutch Carpenter @ 9:38 pm There are few institutions in the modern world that are not being transformed today by social media. But all of these companies had a chance to incubate and grow an enthusiastic set of early adopters, which leads to broader usage. Shel Israel, Global Neighborhoods, 5 New Social Media Turn-ons for me. Encouraging use and engagement with [social] tools is an area that all organizations find they have a need for at some point and time.

infoarch About my experiencesas an information architect Monday, September 21, 2009 Companies as Communities Professor Henry Mintzberg has an interesting article in the HBR of July-August 2009 titled: Rebuilding Companies as Communities . (Isnt That book was a big eye-opener to me, introducing me to social worlds theory, companies staring as communities, communities that just exist (and cant be formed) in communities, etc. To Mintzberg Community means: ... Isnt it too bad these articles are readable by all, even non-subscribers?) Reading this article brought back memories of Etienne Wengers book, Communities of Practice .

Blog Report Card Is your company ready to blog? @Knowledge Communities need the same range. Is there the right balance of interaction and content. Content draws us and helps focus our attention. Home About Contact Divas Blogroll The Diva Marketing Blog Approach To Blog Strategy GO » Looking for a presentation or workshop on blogs, eMarketing, marketing for non marketers? GO »

But only the most naive optimist could ignore the perils of having one company, driven first and foremost by a profit motive, effectively in charge of the most comprehensive collection of the world’s scientific and cultural heritage. Courts could condition a pro-Google fair use finding on universal access to the contents of the resulting database. We are republishing an interesting contribution by Frank Pasquale. This first item is a critique of Google, while in the follow-up, Frank will tackle a ‘public’ alternative.

The strong interest in company blogs continues (e.g., Here is a useful list from Mack Collier”s post, F ive reasons why your company blog sucks . The company web site can serve as the promotional tool so there is no need to have the blog do the same thing. One and five also apply to company Twitter feeds. Forrester Says Firms to Increase Marketing Investment in Blogs , Fortune 500 Blogging Study ). The investment is largely one of time more than money but how do you best leverage this investment?

Chemical companies predictably balked, and at first the data were shoddy and full of holes. But as the system expanded over time, so did the quality of the companies’ monitoring. In the end, the database became valuable to industry itself—companies could see how they stacked up against their competitors, and promote their efficiency—and spawned innovations in pollution control. “It How well is data-driven democracy doing? In the Washington Monthly , Charles Homans has an extensive investigation into the early efforts, both in Washington D.C.