Social Media For Collaboration In Business: Monday Blog Post Round-Up
Posted by Dana Larson on May 10, 2010
Because social media is so popular - for marketers, for students, for families - businesses are starting to see how useful it can be as well. More and more businesses are looking at social media tools as ways to both connect with team members and spread the word about their business as a whole.
Here are a few examples of how businesses are using social media tools to connect their people to each other, and to customers, for increased collaboration.
Why I Like The Like Button: Spreading Nonprofit Messages - Community Organizer 2.0 reviews the new Facebook Like feature on the business pages, and how it can help weave together your network with others. The post also outlines how Facebook is not-so-subtly encouraging you to do what your friends do, which in turn can encourage great communication and collaboration. The more people who join in a conversation, the more you’ll want to participate as well.
LinkedIn For Social Media and Collaboration - As the most popular business social network, LinkedIn connects professionals from all over the world. So obviously business people are using it for collaboration too, right? This post from Managing The Work lists some of the most active LinkedIn groups for social media and business collaboration across industries.
What Can We Do To Improve Collaboration? - While social media tools are enhancing the ways businesses and their people stay connected, this post on All Collaboration discusses different ways businesses are working toward collaboration while being wary of trendy tools that may offer little benefit at all.
6 Degrees Of Collaboration - Posted on CNBC Magazine this week, this article discusses how the success of today’s business can come from working together with other businesses, not from trying to outshine everyone else. Collaboration can bring people and businesses together to produce an outcome even greater than what each would be able to create alone, and by harvesting social media, the new product can emerge victoriously.
When you utilize the communication and collaboration features in popular social media tools, you’ll see an increase in business connectivity and success. And you’ll be surprised at how connected you feel to both your business and your people.
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Dana,
Keep up the good work! I come to your blog now to learn about the good stuff you found in the previous week.
Regards, Lokesh
Thanks Lokesh! We will keep it up for you! -Dana