Blog - December 2011

December 22, 2011 - 8:38am

Last Minute Gift-Giving AKA Hooray for Technology!

It's that time of the year again. You've got a long list of friends and relatives you need to buy gifts for and you've left holiday shopping to the last minute. And by "last minute," I mean you're too late for overnight shipping and you can't (or simply refuse to) brave the hordes of other last-minute shoppers at the mall. Lucky for you, it's not 1983. Nope, it's 2011 and there are options for online gift-giving aplenty! Hooray for technology! Here are just a few ideas:

Posted by Vanessa Au | Posted in Gifts, Holidays, Shopping, Tech, Web

December 20, 2011 - 9:48am

Tweets, Posts, and Whiteboards Too

With a laptop or desktop, an external monitor, and smartphone on nearly every desk at Spring Creek Group, it’s true that paper and pencil aren’t tools that we regularly use.

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December 15, 2011 - 10:16am

LinkedIn Group Polls: How Brands Can Take Advantage of Taking Polls

Following in the footsteps of Facebook, LinkedIn is moving to make interactions on their site more valuable and therefore is offering brands a space where they can receive feedback and opinions based on polling questions. The new polls are outlined on the LinkedIn Blog.

Functionality

Creation of polls is very easy. All rules that apply to poll creation apply to discussion creation as well (approvals, submission queues, etc.).

Posted by Ron Schott | Posted in B2B Social, Influencer Engagement, Influencer Management, Influencer Outreach, LinkedIn
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December 6, 2011 - 2:25pm

Lost, Found, and Shared: Content Discoverability Goes Big

Channel-ification YouTube’s doing it. StumbleUpon’s doing it. Reddit’s been doing it for ages. Everywhere you look, older social-driven sites are adopting a channel-based format. The concept isn’t new: categorize content into topical buckets, making discovery easier and encouraging more content consumption.

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December 2, 2011 - 10:44am

Semi-regular, Always Informative Social Media By the Numbers

The Internet is pretty good for information, but the main problem it has is that there is sometimes just TOO MUCH STUFF ON IT. Sometimes we want to grab a website by its lapels and say: “Hey! This is way too much wordreading!

Posted by Cody Goins