I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too.  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation  [link] interesting because this version caused World War III  Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and

I’ve had several people ask me lately for information on what corporations are doing on Twitter. Here’s some great content around the topic: 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them Four ways companies use micro-blogging

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Blogs have been around more than a decade now, but corporate blogging, or the use of blogs within firms, is not very common. Tags: Blogs leadership blogging virtual teaming task performance social relationships communication corporate performance virtual teams Leadership Collaboration technolog From my teaching of business executives and professionals, I believe that this is probably due to a general lack of understanding of blogs and how they can improve social relationships and task performance. In this post, I focus on the following. Common reaction of business executives

The kick-off speaker at the National Association of Corporate Directors Corporate Governance Conference , Bill George , had some very practical advice for board members. Here he cited one of my favorite corporate experiments in turning around a culture: IBM CEO Sam Palmisano's Values Jam, where more than 300,000 IBM employees were invited to participate in a several-day-long online conversation about IBM's values. A former CEO and board chair of Medtronic, George now teaches at Harvard Business School, serves on several high profile boards, and writes books.

Typically corporate social media efforts emerge out of PR, Marketing, or Customer Service. Have you defined a corporate policy for engaging with customers through social media? If not, better get on it. Corporate blogs? Our social media engagements typically start with some kind of assessment, with varying degrees of formality and scope. We have an internal list of questions we use to plan these assessments, some of which are more relevant and important for a given engagement than others.

And when corporate culture and social media are pitted against each other, social media will always fail. That’s a quote taken from one of his recent blog posts titled: " The Impact of Corporate Culture on Social Media (IBM’s Case Study) ", where he introduces one of his latest slide decks that he has used to present at the Social Networking Conference in Miami that took place last week. It is a very shortly deck, but worth while your time, I am sure, specially While most people out there think that Social Software is all about new, fancy social tools, available on a more engaging and participative Web, I thought you folks would enjoy the following quote from one of my fellow IBM colleagues, Adam Christensen , who happens to know a thing or two (And plenty more!

Tags: Corporate Enterprise 2.0 For Public Relations who are concerned about Crisis Communication in Social Networks and are responsible for Social Media Training across the organisation. Facebook banned in the workplace? LinkedIn blocked because it’s an excellent jobsearch tool?

A “top list” of social networks and online communities for business and corporate. Hoover’s Connect - manage professional network and connect to corporate network (Tagline: Find the people you want to meet through the people you know) Technorati Tags: angel investors , Australia , business , Corporate , enterprise , entrepreneurs , Investment , list , Online Communities , social networks ...Tags: Not blogs - they must have community features of many-to-many discussions, leaders, UGC etc.  Here’s my Australian list:

Corporate social responsibility Most organisations I know have a set of stated values. You know what I mean, things like integrity, professionalism, respect for the individual. And in most cases they've been developed for the wrong reasons. And when developed for the right reasons, most employees don't