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May 30, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

As social media matures, apps proliferate and new enterprise platforms appear everyday, it’s almost impossible to track with all the changes let alone integrate them into your company. With that in mind I felt it might be useful to distill and  isolate ten trends that are reshaping the social business marketplace as we speak. 1. The […]

As social media matures, apps proliferate and new enterprise platforms appear everyday, it’s almost impossible to track with all the changes let alone integrate them into your company. With that in mind I felt it might be useful to distill and  isolate ten trends that are reshaping the social business marketplace as we speak. 1. The …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Brands, Consumers, Future, Mobile, Social, We First Tagged With: branding, purpose, social technology

January 18, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

I wanted to share this video with you that features David Kirkpatrick, the author of The Facebook Effect, talking about the impact of social tools and technology on the way consumers and citizens around the world are demanding change. He does a wonderful job of articulating how the internet has heightened awareness around the world of …

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Filed Under: Causes, Community, Consumers, Economy, Facebook, Future, Globalization, Government, Leadership, Mobile, Non-profits, Optimism, Other, Philanthropy, Purpose, Social, Technology, Thinking, Twitter, Values Tagged With: david kirkpatrick, Facebook, social good, Social media, social technology, Twitter

December 14, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Building on Part 1 of my interview with Charlene Li (author of Groundswell and Open Leadership), here is Part Two in which we discuss the persistent issue of how you convince CEOs to use social media and what they can expect from doing it. SM: How do you answer people that just want to see the …

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Filed Under: Books, Brands, Consumers, Future, Social, Thinking Tagged With: Charlene Li, Open Leadership, social technology

December 12, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Last week I had the great pleasure of catching up with a social media thought leader I really admire, Charlene Li. Founder of the Altimeter Group and author of Groundswell and Open Leadership, she’s been educating and inspiring the business world to use social technologies since they first emerged. As we head in to 2011 …

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Filed Under: Books, Brands, Social, Thinking Tagged With: Charlene Li, Open Leadership, social technology

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