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ATOMWhats the value of a social networking site to a company
Posted over 2 years ago by Caspar
30/01/2008
Our lawyer, Aoife who we are running a seminar with tomorrow sent us a link earlier showing how one law firm, DLA has launched an internal social network Its called "Inside the Tent", and allows future trainees to spend time getting to know colleagues. The value and key reasons for them doing this (as gleaned from the press) are:- it allows DLA's graduate recruitment team to communicate more easily with its future trainees. - The team will post regular updates, as well as news about the firm, and advertise forthcoming firm events and social activities. - It will be great for the environment...
Does Videoconferencing Work?
Posted over 2 years ago by Caspar
30/01/2008
International Collaboration seems to have been the theme for the last 10 days at Trovus.Firstly, our own Jon Mell has been at Lotusphere for the last week in Florida (more to follow) - getting the latest thinking and product developments around the IBM suite of products dedicated to social networking and collaboration within companies. There is truly great work being done but I will leave Jon to provide details of that.The second area has been Trovus securing our first international client in the USA - a large property consultancy. What was good for us around this was that our first workshop...
Only 1% do anything!
Posted over 2 years ago by Caspar
22/01/2008
A community I am part of in the online marketing world - Affiliates4u made a great post today which says that of their 20,000 strong online community, only 200 people are active posters - thats only 1% of the communityShock horror. This lead to four plus pages of discussion threads on whether the non regular contributing members(thereby including me) should be a) banned or b) charged a premium http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/affiliate-marketing-moderators-choice/71113-approx-20-000-members-only-approx-200-regular-posters.htmlThis comes as no surprise to us and accords with other research that shows similar figures:- Our own research based on communities we own, run and manage - around 1% of people actually...
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