Sure social media is a great tool for marketing, but its communications capabilities make it a great tool for your company’s HR department as well. Here’s some of my coverage from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., in November.
Social media, tech & marketing events: March
TED is happening right now in Long Beach, Calif. (Photo By Andrew-Hyde) Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events for March — the first packed month of the year. For the full year, see our full Calendar of 2011 social media, tech and marketing conferences. We’ve also published a roundup […]
5 cool startups at the first Launch conference
With a crowded conference space for the launch of new startups — DEMOspring, DEMOfall, TechCrunch Disrupt — is there room for another springboard for interesting start-ups?
Yep. The first Launch conference, held Wednesday and today at the San Francisco Design Concourse, showed off a wealth of entrepreneurial talent — and proved to be entertaining at the same time, thanks to the conference prowess of founder Jason Calacanis and the on-stage cleverness of judges such as VCs Dave McClure, Yossi Vardi and actor Kevin Pollak, who instructed startup founders to target “the C- to B+ students” who have grown up to become the vast midsection of U.S. consumer culture.
Social media marketing: Facebook & Twitter aren’t enough
Facebook and Twitter have brought new discipline to the practice of traffic generation, branding and customer engagement on the Web. Still, there are clear signs that Twitter and Facebook aren’t enough.
Business hierarchy doesn’t affect online collaboration
Here’s some of my coverage from the ICIS Conference in St. Louis. I was covering the event for Dice and Dice News.
When you’re collaborating online with a virtual team, which relationship dynamic works the best? A rigid internal structure of system roles or human relations?