Can We Keep Social Media from Sucking?

Two stories on the internet caught my attention this week. The first was a blog post from Mark Schaefer on the business case for buying facebook likes. Yes, that’s the business case FOR buying them. His argument seems to be that whether it makes sense or not, we...

Book Review: Social Media ROI

Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization by Olivier Blanchard Thankfully, the debate about whether or not social media is a “fad” is fading away, so now we can really focus on how social media is changing the way we work in...

The Shift from Push to Pull

I’m making my way through McKinsey’s study about adoption of social technologies in the workplace. The study suggests we can find a 20% increase in proeductivity if we adopt these technologies (particularly in large organizations). One way to get this...

Book Review: Social Gravity

Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen are two of my favorite people. They are consultants and speakers (like me), and they work around issues of diversity, HR, organization development (also like me). But that’s not why I like them. I like them because they are...

The REAL point of Measurement

Mark Shaefer has a nice post about a recent “social media measurement smackdown” he participated in during a social media conference. He was pushing back against a prevailing notion that you can’t measure social media. He’s heard nice sound...
Jamie Notter