Housework Outranks Facebook On Happiness Meter

Only activity people like less than using Facebook is recovering from illness, study says. There's a lesson here for businesses. There is no shortage of studies that conclude what is obvious to most of the planet. Ninety-nine percent of those surveyed said they don't want a hot poker in the eye! One percent of those surveyed said they like the smell of bad milk! You know the ones. But sometimes it's possible to glean a little "aha" nugget from studies that otherwise don't have much to tell us. Read more on InformationWeek.com

Social Business Success Requires Looking Inward

Focus as much energy on how your employees, partners, and shareholders experience your business as you do your existing and prospective customers. Retailers know exactly what scents, colors, and music to use in their physical environments that facilitate an experience that drives sales. Industrial designers spend time trying to evoke an emotional response from the users of a product. Read more on InformationWeek.com

5 Ways IT Can Stall Social

When it comes to social networking, IT departments can lead, follow, or get out of the way. The IT department can be instrumental in guiding and supporting the use of technology products and processes that move businesses toward their social business goals. It can also even with the best of intentions stall nascent social efforts.

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Get Organized: 15 Social Media Tips for SMBs

You and your small or micro business need to have a social media presence. That we know. If your potential clients, customers, and audience live on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and so on, then it's only reasonable that you go to those places to reach them. They ain't coming to you. Rarely do small businesses have the resources to hire a social media manager, meaning the fate of your online social presence likely rests on your shoulders. Even if you have an employee or intern whom you can charge with spinning a social Web, that person still needs input from you. For more Go to PCMag.com

5 Tips To Build Your Personal Social Brand

Consider these best practices for successfully strengthening your social credibility. At the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, attendees I met with seemed to fall into two groups: those who were active on a variety of social networking platforms--both internal and external to their organizations--and those who wanted to be but weren't quite sure what to do or where to start. The people in the former category seemed to get how social media could enhance their personal brand and how to discern success in that area, while those in the latter category were still trying to get their arms around it. Read more on InformationWeek.com

How IT Can Reclaim Social Relevance

Social technologies are spreading through the business in a decentralized way, not via IT leadership. How can organizations and IT leaders make the most of this trend? If there's anything that's striking about the changes taking place in technology today, it's that many of the most transformative new advances are bypassing the IT department entirely. One only has to look at the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon to see this clearly. Most IT departments are planning to enable (if they haven't already) BYOD, a form of user-led computing adoption. It's easier and easier to make the case today that technology, especially on the edges, is increasingly moving out of IT's hands. Read more on InformationWeek.com

5 Ways Social Changes How We Work

Social networking may not eliminate the need for some business processes and applications entirely, but it's changing the status quo in areas ranging from email to call centers. Video might not have killed the radio star, but it sure did change things. The same can be said for social networks and any number of business processes and applications. Here are five upstart social trends that might not kill old school, but have already changed how we work.

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