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7 Strategies For Employee Communication Through Social Media – Part 2

We talked in Part 1 about the first four strategies for utilizing social media as an employee communications tool:

• Establish Clear Ownership
• Use Protected Twitter Accounts
• Use RSS Feeds
• Develop An Internal-Only Blog

Here’s Part 2:

Bring Social Media Reports To Regular Meetings

7 Strategies For Employee Communication Through Social Media – Part 1

How To Write Tweets That Get Noticed

Editor’s note: Today’s article is by David Murton, who has been helping companies build and maintain their online relationships with customers since 2006. He also is a professional writer and webmaster with a particular interest in the open source Drupal platform.

Market Successfully In Today’s Interactive Environment

I just did a session called Market Successfully In Today’s Interactive Environment for the Bank of Commerce’s School of Commerce (SOC). The SOC is designed to help independently owned businesses with the key challenges they have, ranging from financing to marketing.

How Is Social Media Like A Mullet?

Photo: Copyright 2001 Columbia Pictures

When you live in the South you sometimes still see the male hairstyle known as the mullet. As Joe Dirt said in the movie by the same name, a mullet is “business in the front, party in the back.” And that is how social media is like a mullet: it’s both business and personal.

Real Life – The True Beneficiary Of Social Media

I was having a discussion last night with a friend who doesn’t get social media. He says he feels like a voyeur when seeing things his friends post. I can understand that to a point because some people do overshare their lives.

Too Much Social, Not Enough Sales?

Is social media wearing you out and getting in the way of your real work? It’s not bad enough that you have to keep up with a blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendfeed, Youtube and maybe Plaxo, but every day I’m being asked to join yet another social network. There are hundreds of them, it seems. I’ve said no to Viadeo, no to Friendster, no to MySpace, and by-bye to Goodreads.

#tweeta20 – That’s A Wrap

Well, #tweeta20 – the social media project designed to raise awareness and funds for Thompson Child & Family Focus -  is behind us now and I think it was a success. I think we raised more awareness of the good work that Thompson does than we did money. Although we raised at least $4,000 via social media at last count.

Meet The Tweeters

We talked recently about #tweeta20,  a social media project in which I’m participating along with @PRQueen.The project is for Thompson Child & Family Focus, aka @ThompsonCFF.

A number of prominent Charlotte, NC tweeters have graciously volunteered their time to assist in this worthy cause.  Please follow these good folks:

Tweeta20 – A Non-Profit Social Media Pilot Project

On Tuesday, May 11, nine Charlotte social media folks and I will spend an hour trying to raise money for Thompson Child & Family Focus, an organization that has spent nearly 125 years providing education, treatment and support for children traumatized by sexual abuse, domestic violence or rampant neglect.