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Listen: How to share your Netvibes listening dashboard with your colleagues?

Internal Communication Tools / Social Media Tips and Tricks / Social Media Tools

Building a listening dashboard is by nature quite an individualistic activity. Each individual in a company will have different interests and areas of expertise, which determine the sources and conversations they listen to. However there are benefits to sharing dashboards between team mates or colleagues. Example 1: if I...

Amy-Jane Cahalane Joins eSocialMedia!

Company Information / General

Amy-Jane joins eSocialMedia after 6 years of working in Local Government. Her most recent role was Economic Development Officer at Bedford Borough Council, where she led several large scale projects and ran events across Bedfordshire. Amy-Jane is a self-confessed ‘Social Media Junkie’ (with no future plans to visit rehab!). She...

Is it necessary to take out social media insurance for your company?

Social Media for Financial Services / Social Media for Insurance / Social Media for PR

There are many risks associated with using social media. Chartis insurance actually provide social media insurance. I’ve provided a list of these risks below. The risks do not, however, outweigh the opportunities associated with using social media effectively. In this article I provide a list of the risks and...

Tips for getting started at corporate blogging: SEO guidelines

Social Media and Blogging

One of the nicest things to do after writing a blog post is to find it at the top of Google's search results. The secret to increasing your blog post or web page's SEO is not solely the domain of your technical team. Although both Author and techie are...

5 of the best Internal Communications tools for business

Internal Communication Tools

Here are a quick list of the 5 internal communications tools that are currently gathering momentum which you need to watch out for in the social media space.   Yammer – I have experience working with a number of companies on the Yammer platform. It is a very effective...

Common mistakes made when building a community: platform selection

Community Building / General

I come across clients regularly who have experienced the same pitfalls when it comes to building communities and developing social media spaces. There are some key questions to ask when selecting a vendor to assist you in building a community. I am going to go through a series of...