socialmedian: “I Don’t Play on Facebook, Sir. I USE It.”

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“I Don’t Play on Facebook, Sir. I USE It.”

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Nov 17, 2008

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I am still surprised when many of my friends bring up the fact that they cannot use social media (Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIN, etc) in their offices. Most of them work for corporate America and their bosses still view Facebook as playtime.

Jason Falls has a great post today on How To Be The Social Media Champion At Your Office. What do you say when you are being made fun of for using Social Media? What do you say when you are constantly being beat down with this “new-fangled-fad”?

And what do you say when superiors and peers tell you social media marketing is a waste of time? Jason has six steps to help you along your journey. I am also going to add in a couple of my own.

1. Illustrate the Benefits

2. Make Yourself Available

3. Target the Right Co-Workers

4. Get To The Professional Through the Personal

5. Operate Within The Rules

6. Solve Business Problems With Social Media Tools

I would encourage you to go read Jason’s blog and learn from his expertise. I wanted to add a couple that will help my peers along the way of social media domination in the corporate environm

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Comments (7)

Hutch,

Nov 17, 2008

"I am still surprised when many of my friends bring up the fact that they cannot use social media (Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIN, etc) in their offices. Most of them work for corporate America and their bosses still view Facebook as playtime."

Spuds,

Nov 18, 2008

@hutch Where I work does not allow any internet access. For some reason it is not seen as a business tool

Jasongoldberg,

Nov 18, 2008

@spuds do you work in a prison? ;-)

Hutch,

Nov 18, 2008

@spuds - No Internet? Good heavens. And you're on SocialMedian, which means you get this social media world. Do you work in an office environment?

Spuds,

Dec 03, 2008

@hutch I am one of these people that works for an organisation like this. Some business just don't understand the internet

Markhorner,

Dec 03, 2008

Too True
I don't use facebook for work as such yet, but I use ecademy.com and I am learning the new social networking world.

Mfields1419,

Dec 03, 2008

Productivity comes from keeping employees engaged and happy anyway. You can block websites all day and the fact is if people aren't motivated they will find another way to be unproductive, like conversation.