Online social media communities are living ecosystems. Unmanaged, they can evolve into something undesirable or simply die out. To avoid this, tend your community just like you would attend a garden. This will take just as much work as managing a successful garden but – when successful – will yield just as pleasing results…...
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Tags: American Express, AOL, Belly-off, Community, Ecosystem, Men's Health, National Dialog, OPEN Forum, White House
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Healthcare is an incredibly collaborative sector—making it an ideal candidate to realize value through use of social networking. However, it is also one of the most sensitive sectors in terms of its management of information. This does not make use of social networking impossible; it just requires more creativity in how this technology is...
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Tags: Biotech, Business Service, Clinical Trial, CRA, CRO, Health 2.0, ICF, KOL, Mobile Computing, Pharma, PI, Principal Investigator
Posted in Business Transformation, Emerging Technologies, Extending the Value Chain, Health 2.0, Market Positioning, Mobile, Regulatory Compliance | 3 Comments »
Most designers of social media communities are "greedy", requiring registration before showing visitors content. However, in this case greed is NOT good. (In fact it can cost you 60% or more of your potential market and ROI.)...
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Tags: American Express, Authentication, Bing, Collector, Community, Consumer, Creator, Critic, Forrester, Google, Groundswell, HGTV, Joiner, Microsoft, OPEN Forum, Profile, Rate My Space, Registration, Spectator, Technographics, Voices 4 Economic Recovery
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Lead Gen & CRM, Managing Technology, Market Analysis, Privacy, Security & Identity Management, Social Media / Web 2.0, Strategy & Marketing | No Comments »
We all have far too many accounts to maintain. We all know this. However, too many communities ask us to join YET ANOTHER NETWORK to participate. To be effective, communities should let me members be themselves, not just in how they express themselves but also in how they identify themselves...
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Tags: AIM, Altimeter, AOL, Authentication, Facebook Connect, Google, Groundswell, LinkedIn, Live ID, Open ID, Registration, Twitter, Yahoo
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Internet (1.0), Lead Gen & CRM, Managing Technology, Market Analysis, Motivation, Privacy, Security & Identity Management, Social Media / Web 2.0, Speed & Re-use, Systems Engineering & Integration | 3 Comments »