The ethical technology blogger junket

A few weeks ago, I participated in an interesting event and new (for me) kind of event, Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. Stephen Foskett (see my earlier post on Gestalt IT) pulled together the event only 5 weeks after attending and being inspired by the very successful HP Tech Day, which brought together a dozen [...]

November 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: corporate social media case studies, social media best practices | Comments

The Enterprise Social Media Map

In any company of appreciable size, social media gets complicated. Social media channels and platforms,  interactions, linkages, things to track: they all start to interconnect with exponential complexity. Even an inventory of channels and platforms starts to look like a phone book and is about as stimulating. Going up a level and drawing a picture [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: corporate social media case studies, corporate social media strategy | Comments

Gestalt IT, the Craigslist of new tech journalism

Source: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis isn’t shy about his take on the future of journalism and the media business. One thing I like about his view of the future is that he describes an ecosystem of new voices, new business models and new channels. That certainly seems to be where we are, although I’d bet things [...]

November 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: corporate social media case studies | Comments

Will you please pull this post?

Today I had to ask an employee of a partner to pull a post on their personal blog.

At our company, we have a clear policy on community terms of use. In general, you’re allowed to say anything you want, as long as it isn’t illegal, defamatory, or disruptive. (There were lawyers involved, so Section 3 [...]

November 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: corporate social media case studies | Comments

What's your Social Media Strategy?

A current conversation at work is “What’s our Social Media Strategy?” The Capital Letters are implied. Were I one to make snarky generalizations (and I am, but I try not to confuse them with reality), I’d say this is a symptom of wishful thinking for a neat, tidy, box with a big “Social Media” label [...]

November 8th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: corporate social media case studies | Comments