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Michael Brito considers himself a student of the social business, community building and customer advocacy.
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Social Business Planning Presentation for Thomson Reuters
Yesterday, I had the tremendous opportunity to present the below deck to Jen McClure and the social media task force at Thomson Reuters. Enjoy!
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The IBM Social Business Coffee Break with @Sandy_Carter
Sandy Carter, Vice President of Social Business Evangelism at IBM walks through the first four trends that have disrupted the business over the last 20 years – Mainframes, Departmental, PCs and the Internet. The fifth era is social business.
She describes that “social” is more than just Facebook, Twitter and even gives an example of a conversation she had with a CIO of a large bank during the internet era many years ago. The CIO told her that banking would never be done over the Internet; and if it did, he would give her his year’s salary. She never collected it.
She explains that companies should use social media in every aspect of their business, not just Public Relations and Marketing in order to gain a competitive advantage and to increase their business metrics – productivity, revenue and profits. Sandy is a great speaker. Enjoy.
Social Business Q&A with Maria Ogneva, Head of Community at Yammer
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Maria Ogneva, Head of Community for Yammer. We talked about the social customer, various social organizational models, governance and social media policies and the evolution of social business. Here are the slides that guided our conversation and many of the questions we covered are here. A recording of the webinar will be available soon and I will post it here.
The Difference between a Social Brand and a Social Business
The difference between a social brand and a social business is fairly straightforward. A social brand is about external communications. A social business deals with operations and culture change. The end result is the same — to better engage with the social customer. Check out the social business book on Amazon if you are interested in learning more.
Organizational Models for a Social Business
There are two standard social organization models that exist in companies today – centralized and decentralized. A centralized social organization often operates in silos with the social media function usually reporting into corporate marketing along with corporate communications and marketing (web, channel, retail). In this case, the strategy and execution is managed and governed without much collaboration with other business units such as product organizations, customer support and various geographies. Organizations such as this are usually without social media guidelines, governance models and rarely share best practices with other functional teams.
The Social Business Life Cycle
This is a work in progress. I am still not sure if “Social Business Life Cycle” is the right word. I was also thinking about calling it the “Social Business Adoption Life Cycle” but I am not sure. I would love your feedback on how I can improve this so that it makes more sense.
The Social Business Imperitive
This is a very early iteration of my social business infographic that depicts the infrastructure of a social business. I am in the process having a more robust and comprehensive infographic created.
A Glimpse into the First 5 Chapters
When I first set out to write this book, I wanted to build the sections in a way that allowed for easy chapter-based steps which could facilitate the practical application of the strategies contained in the book. Each subsequent section and chapter serving as a requisite building-block of the next in much the same way as other books.
In a perfect real world scenario, this book is meant to mirror in chronological order and the natural evolution into a social business – cultural change –> tearing down silos and communicating across the organization –> social technologies that facilitate communication –> governance models –> tactical considerations that address the social customer –> and social CRM being response to the external social customer. This is essentially the first half of the book. Here is a glimpse of the Table of Contents:
Maria Ogneva Discusses Internal Collaboration
I caught up with my good friend Maria Ogneva at Yammer headquarters in San Francisco last week and asked her a few questions about the impact that internal collaboration has on business. Her answer is extremely insightful and she addresses culture, process, technology and of course the social customer.