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Empowering Your Employees With Social Media

by Jason Falls · February 6, 2012

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Emily Eldridge, Senior Vice President of Pure.

It’s tempting to think that employees’ online discussions about your company should be curbed.  Most company policies in the modern workplace exist to protect us from lawsuits – and to ostensibly protect employees from themselves.  While it’s understandable to want control over our corporate image, this fear dimishes our employees’ ability to communicate.  A stronger approach is to empower our staff to be brand advocates.

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Employment Law Attorneys & Death by Social Media

by Jason Falls · July 29, 2011

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR (@blogging4jobs), who is an HR consultant, new media strategist, and author who writes at Blogging4Jobs.com.

Social media is changing the way we live and work.  Technologies like smartphones, tablets, and wifi make it possible to work almost anywhere.  Organizations are beginning to add more telework strategies, social media technologies, and corporate employee engagement programs integrating these new technologies into an organization’s external as well as internal communication and engagement strategies.

Yes, the world of work is changing and for the better and yet an organization’s senior leaders and human resource professionals struggle with understanding these technologies.  They remain conflicted, and I’m not surprised.

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Using MBTI® to Build Effective Social Media Teams

by Mark Smiciklas · April 22, 2011

As social media starts to weave itself into the fiber of corporate culture, companies are beginning to recognize the need to make organizational changes in order to evolve as social businesses. One area where this is gaining importance is Human Resources. The emergence of new social media roles and how they are integrated into the structure of an organization can have a huge impact on the success of social business initiatives.

As businesses begin to experiment with assembling social media teams some will leverage existing employees, using a corner of the desk approach to gradually embed learning and build capacity, while others will look to hire new staff. Either way, how do you know which employees are best suited for these new roles?

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The Anatomy of a Social Media Policy

by Stephanie Schwab · March 11, 2011

Social media policies are on the minds of most business owners these days. After all, nearly everyone we know uses a Facebook account, and lots of people are blogging about their families or uploading videos from last weekend’s party to YouTube. So how do you protect your business when your staff are loose on the social web? The answer is not to lock down Internet access at work – after all, your employees can access Facebook right from their smart phones at their desks. Smart businesses have social media policies which govern the actions of employees in social media – whether on behalf of the company or while on their own time.

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Who Runs Your Business: You Or Your Employees?

by Eric Brown · December 22, 2010

Who runs your business? Is it you or your employees? Which is better? Does it depend on the business?

Perhaps there is merit to both sides

This argument came up in a recent blog post discussion about keeping our business open longer hours, Want Higher Occupancy, Stay Open Longer and how, in doing so, our business increased noticeably on several basis points. The move caused a little riff from our employees as you might expect. However, in this instance I didn’t give them an option. Many of the comments we received from the post surrounded the topic of employee dissatisfaction, or perceived dissatisfaction, about extended hours in a field of work that typically closes up shop by 6 p.m. Staying open until 9 p.m. is perceived as radical.

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LeadVine Is Crowdsourcing For Business Leads

by Jason Falls · September 1, 2008

My friend Ben Thomas is pretty smart. Founder of SalaryScout.com, PoliticalCrunch.com, Macmeter.com and the first true social media group in Louisville — LouisvilleGeekDinner.com — Ben says he likes to, “make stuff.” He makes some pretty good stuff.

LeadVine - Community Generated Sales LeadsA little over a week ago, Ben launched a new venture that puts a social media spin on both generating and responding to business leads. It’s called LeadVine.com and, like most things Ben does, it’s pretty smart.

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Your On-Line Life Has Windows

by Jason Falls · June 5, 2008

As indicated earlier this week, Crystal Peterson and I presented Thursday night to a group of young professionals associated with the Advertising Federation of Louisville. As promised, here’s our PowerPoint presentation.



While my post from Monday stirred some interesting discussion in the comments, I want to stress that the point of the presentation was not to say that human resources pros and hiring managers are out there snooping through your Facebook photo albums and MySpace profiles looking for something for which to disqualify you from job searches. Rather, many are looking for the good — are you active in communities in your industry? Do you have a blog or comment on blogs? Have you established an expertise or at least a professional reputation online? If they find the good, it helps your chances.

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