Triggering the Expected Results from your Online Efforts.
We are great fans of twitter and we are always looking for ways to explain and facilitate how we see twitter.
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Any applications or visualizations that you would include?
Many companies are not familiar with the many risks Social Media present big and large companies. Last year I created a presentation on Corporate Social Media Guidelines and how to mitigate risks.
One of the topics where I have not seen any improvement has been in seeing policies and procedures revised to reflect better the current risks that every company is facing.
Like most companies when it comes to policies they create them to keep the auditor or regulators happy. However being an IT Auditor many years and still holding the Certified Information Systems Auditor “CISA” Certification to serve to a few long term clients I have seen how many companies can get away with it.
Regarding policies around Social Media I see how every day more companies have their hands tied when they are confronted with an employee or company representative misuses Social Media.
Many Social Media Policies
The first thing you have to understand before creating a First Line of Defense with Social Media is the concept of the multiple policies that need to be created to integrate with your environment. A list of the multiple policies that should be part of your 1st Line of Defense which I found at Social Media Explorer :
I hope this list can serve as a guide for many and can be elaborated. I will be touching each and every policy in the next few posts so there can be more detail.
Is there one set of policies you have questions with?
Do you know of other policies you might need or have created?
We really enjoyed the experience of being able to present at Barcamp San Juan. The folks at Contactica did a great job.
Here is our presentation!
6 recommendations to Unleash the Power Of FollowFridayIf you are just starting on twitter who should you start following? I think everyone new on twitter runs into the same situation. How about if you are a business how do you gain followers?
In my opinion I see the benefit of growing your followers organically. I have seen many companies with new presence on twitter spamming and following as many people on twitter as they can get a hand on. Personally I think they should really focus on earning followers (without spamming), establishing relationships, and keeping those followers.
On twitter I have been a huge advocate for #FollowFriday and the Spanish version of #VivaViernes. The #FollowFriday hashtag was initially created and suggested by @micah on twitter. As you can see the first #FollowFriday Tweet below.
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For individuals it is a great way to share top people to follow on Twitter. It also gives you the chance to find recommendations from friends who they think deserve your attention. If you actually take those benefits and transfer them to a business account I see many advantages.
Getting back to actually maintaining your users by using #FollowFriday we recommend:
Overall search for the best option of the #FollowFriday to fit your business needs. I constantly switch them up and would recommend you to try or even mix my recommendations.
I also recommend you to visit Followfriday.com (@followfridaycom) which is a great new tool to measure how many #FollowFridays a user has received.
It also gives you a few tools to help you be grateful for the people who mentioned you with the #FollowFriday hashtag.
Are you using #FollowFriday for any business purpose?
How do you use your #FollowFriday?
Any other suggestions on how to keep your users interested?
On October 18th, 2009 we presented a live seminar on how small businesses are able to use Social Media to get their business moving. The title of the presentation was Being Connected to Our Earth (in spanish Conectados con Nuestra Tierra).
We want to thank the Tropical Bloom team for inviting us.
Here are some pictures from our experience:
