Comments on: The world’s best places to work encourage social networking

By: Krishna De

Krishna De — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:42:41 +0000

@ Leesa – thanks for stopping by – I’m really looking forward to the social media event – you’ve lined up some great speakers.

By: Krishna De

Krishna De — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:35:24 +0000

Scott – many thanks for posting about Beehive. I have just been speaking at a leadership event for 250 executives from across the globe for one of the top 20 Fortune organisations and suggested this strategy to them. Let’s see if anything comes of it!!

The more case studies we can share the better so thank you for this.

By: Leesa Barnes - Podcasting Expert and Author of Podcasting for Profit » How to Use Social Media to Promote a Paid Event

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:12:30 +0000

[...] Krishna De is blogging about social media and has included a short blurb at the end of every blog post about the Telesummit (see here, here and here). She uses this indirect way to promote her participation as a speaker in the Telesummit and uses repetition to keep the event visible to her audience. [...]

By: Scot Herrick

Scot Herrick — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:55:48 +0000

Also, IBM has developed an internal Facebook-like application called Beehive. The purpose: in a global enterprise, with team members across the planet, picking who should be on your team with the right skills and talents becomes a huge issue. No longer can you decide to have a person on the team from the building next to yours — because their office is located on a different continent.

IBM uses these social software programs to allow internal employees display their value proposition for being on potential teams, including personal interests. The reason: it’s tough to go to the pub to learn about a team member when that person is 6,000 kilometers and 8 time zones away. Social networking software attempts to bridge this gap.

Developing and maintaining these sites — much less visiting them — will soon become a necessary job skill in global companies in order to be on teams that do great work.

By: Leesa Barnes

Leesa Barnes — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:56:35 +0000

Love your energy, Krishna! I’m looking forward to hosting you on the Telesummit. Should be a blast.

And like Jay said: “business managers need to ‘wake up and smell the transition’.” I wholeheartedly agree with that statement. Many business managers just need to understand how to use these tools so they don’t lose their shirt (or their jobs).

By: Jay Deragon

Jay Deragon — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:48:38 +0000

Wonderful and powerful post that hits at the issues that business managers need to “wake up and smell the transition”.

Well done and I will follow and share your post from now on! Lets get the word out………