We have experimented with Twitter chats here at SAS, including a lively #statchat that we hosted two years ago for World Statistics Day. Likewise, our publications team has hosted a few fun Twitter chats with SAS book authors. Outside of SAS sponsored chats, I've also participated in and really enjoyed watching
I’ve been working on this post a bit at a time over the course of a few weeks. In the meantime, Amber Naslund posted a compelling argument why she doesn’t want to write a list of social media predictions for 2010. But I’d much rather spend my efforts at the
Jeff Cohen, a Triangle-area social media consultant and one of the brains behind the Social Media B2B blog, has put together a short PowerPoint presentation on his Slideshare page highlighting B2B companies that have created successful Facebook fan pages, with a summary of what makes each one good. It's an
One of my favorite podcasts is Media Hacks, which features Mitch Joel, C.C. Chapman, Julien Smith, Chris Brogan, Hugh McGuire, and Christopher S. Penn discussing a loose agenda of topics spanning social media, marketing, technology and the ways we create and consume content in the modern world. On one episode,
I think we'll look back on 2009 as the year when social media had the greatest hype, and 2010 as the year we started to really figure out how to make it work. One of the questions that I often heard asked amid the hype this year was, "Are decision
There's a paradox in my involvement in social media that people who know me well will understand: Often I don't want to know what most people are thinking. For instance, the absolute nadir of human communication is occurring in the comments sections of YouTube and local news sites. I avoid
I was in our External Communications team staff meeting earlier this week listening to a discussion of SAS' Premier Business Leadership Series event in Las Vegas, and the journalists and bloggers who attended. Some of the "journalists" write for print, some online, and some both. Some of the "bloggers" are
Lots of people make grand (and often unrealistic) predictions about social media and where it's going. David Armano from the Dachis Group has a very practical, believable set of predictions on the Harvard Business blog. Worth reading. He's spot on about social media becoming less "social," and I've been predicting
Mike Schneider (@schneidermike) Notes from "Social CRM: Connecting Your Sales Force to the Social Web" at the Social Media Business Forum The problem: The sales force is busy, they're under pressure, they've got quotas and are presented with different methods. Social CRM: "The company's response to the customer's control of
My notes from The Future of Business on the Social Web panel at the Social Media Business Forum Jeff Cohen started the panel with a question: Has social media gone beyond communications? Does it impact everything a business does? Jason: "Social media" is an adjective. There's always something after it.
