Posts Tagged ‘Social Business Strategies’

Tips for Managing a More Productive Calendar

So here it goes. Setting Up The Tools Start by figuring out what the important stuff is in your personal life.  I’ve learned that striking a work-life balance is essential to preventing burnout.  Burnout sucks.  For me, the “life” part involves making time for my family, friends, pets and training for races. Next, investigate some [...]

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What We Do at Social Business Strategies

I think I’ve confused you.  May I have a few moments to clear things up? You know that Cheryl and I do something related to helping medium-sized and big companies learn how to use social media for business.  That can be a broad range of things, though, can’t it? Conversations with Molly Brochers (one of FahlgrenMortine’s rising [...]

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How To Lead More Productive Collaboration at a Distance

Do you have clients outside of your backyard?  How about business partners? In most cases, that’s pretty common in today’s business environment.  Thank you, Interwebz. At Social Business Strategies, a good amount of the clients Cheryl and I work with live outside of central Ohio.  The nature of the work that we advise and train them on, [...]

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Quick Updates on Social Business Strategies

I feel like I haven’t really been keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening at Social Business Strategies. For the sake of time, I’ll just let the video do the talking.  Okay? I often struggle with what I write here.  On one hand, I feel like what I’m working on – from a business standpoint, in [...]

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ROI by Using Social Media from the Inside Out

Maybe a theme from this week is actually the idea of “inside out.” We talked about branding from the inside out and how Scotts is doing that. We talked about a draft framework of outcomes for how social media can be used to support internal organizational communication objectives. Now let’s look at using social media [...]

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Customer Experience Marketing & iPhone Apps

My choice of banks has usually been dictated by location and proximity. Growing up in Massillon, Ohio, I banked with First Merit.  Why?  A branch was located about two blocks from my house. When I moved to Westerville, to attend Otterbein College  in 1999, I banked with Huntington.  Why?  There was a branch about a [...]

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Leadership Framework for a Dynamic Business Environment

Perry Maughmer has become one of my good friends and mentors over the past year.  Our meeting in itself is a testament to the serendipity that happens every day on the social web.  Perry’s ideas and concepts have led to some of the thinking involved in Social Business Strategies position on building Human Business Teams, [...]

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Diigo Social Bookmarking: 5 Reasons Why It Rocks

It’s been my goal for the past two years for at least a portion of my career to be professional speaking.  With that turf comes the need for constant research. I’ve found a need to get good at things like boolean searching, basic image cropping, video editing and, most definitely, building presentations using Keynote (for Mac). [...]

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Social Business Strategies | Business Plans & Wish List for 2010

Most of you know I read Chris Brogan every day.  I read everything he writes.  If you’re into learning  about how business is once again becoming human, and the tools and technology that are making it happen, you should probably read Chris’s blog, as well. Creating a business wish list for 2010 is a great [...]

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