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Comment on Social Design Elements by rickmans

rickmans — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Hi Laura thanks for your reply. For me personally resilience is more towards the execution (and rather vital), than a design element upfront. On the other hand, if you don’t design for it, will you able to do so?

Some food for thought I would say, since it is importance, though for now I think it should be somewhere in a different set of principles than the design principles.

Comment on Social Design Elements by Laura Colvine

Laura Colvine — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:37:00 +0000

Rick it might be worth considering resilience as a principle by which I mean the human dimensions of social resilience as well as the platform, technology dimensions. So covers things like durabilty or ‘stickiness’ and things like personal brand resilience under identity as well as more obvious tech resilience considerations. Make sense?

Comment on Social Design Elements by ulrich weisert

ulrich weisert — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:33:00 +0000

I don’t like the analogy of (big) data with oil. You can’t heat with it or fuel your car. It reminds me much more of sitting at a river digging for gold. A lot of waste while only few nuggets in it.

Comment on Social as a design principle, not a silo by Social Design Elements | Don't Mind Rick

Social Design Elements | Don't Mind Rick — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:36:22 +0000

[...] I am working on a approach to make social easy understandable as a design principle. One of the approaches I have taken for this is to split it in six design elements. Those elements [...]

Comment on Community Maturity – Fools and Spam by 3F the typical community approach | Don't Mind Rick

3F the typical community approach | Don't Mind Rick — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:15:19 +0000

[...] It might sound obvious to you, however friends and family are a good starting point for many of your new ventures. The third F, fools, is the group that arrives after a while. It is a sign of a mature community as s…. [...]

Comment on Vanity Metrics – Measuring the wrong thing by 3F the typical community approach | Don't Mind Rick

3F the typical community approach | Don't Mind Rick — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:26:07 +0000

[...] 25, 2012 by Rick Mans | 0 comments A few weeks ago I presented on B2B goes social about B2B communities. After my presentation and during the drinks I got this question: “If I want to start a [...]

Comment on Are you stopping at 1% of your ultimate goal? by Vanity Metrics - Measuring the wrong thing | Don't Mind Rick

Vanity Metrics - Measuring the wrong thing | Don't Mind Rick — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:41:34 +0000

[...] The 90-9-1 rule defined by Jakob Nielsen. Read why I think this limits the efforts of community builders here. [...]

Comment on 5 steps to get your CEO on social media by Christoph Schmaltz

Christoph Schmaltz — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:25:33 +0000

8. Peer Pressure

Just like any human-being CEOs are influenced by their peers (aka other CEOs). Highlight good examples from your industry or other industries. Show statistics like this one (although i am wary of these kind of statistics: http://socialmediainfluence.com/2012/03/28/why-a-tweeting-ceo-is-mission-critical-for-any-organization/

Better to use McKinsey, Gartner & Co ;)

9. Start internally

If the CEO is not comfortable or does not see the point in engaging with external stakeholders, start internally. The concept of open leadership in a networked world has become more important. Show ways and methods for the CEO to engage with employees first.

Comment on 5 steps to get your CEO on social media by Joachim Heinz

Joachim Heinz — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:29:33 +0000

What about one more point.

7. Build a content strategy for your CEO

Maybe your CEO asks for the appropriate content. Be prepared to develop a content strategy for the next half year. What about a series of blog articles about company values? What about showing every month the top projects or deals?
But keep in mind – building good content is a time-eater. And if you think of a video-blog, is even eats more time to preprare.

Comment on Eliminating email, the new paperless office? by Joakim Lindbom

Joakim Lindbom — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:06:16 +0000

I truly agree. If people only could read and understand the http://emailcharter.org/index.html there would be more time to smell the roses.

Comment on 5 steps to get your CEO on social media by Rick Mans

Rick Mans — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:52:21 +0000

Good build Jochem! You are right, PAs can be really important to get these things done :).

Comment on 5 steps to get your CEO on social media by Jochem Koole

Jochem Koole — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:51:35 +0000

6. Your CEO is not alone

CEOs depend on their PAs for a lot of things. PAs are in control of your CEO’s agenda and also the first point of contact for any one (inside and outside the organization) approaching your CEO. Why not involve her (usually it’s a she) in the process?

Sit down with the PA before meeting your CEO. Develop a “plan of attack” together. Never ever (!) let a PA talk on behalf of a CEO. However, there’s a lot more to social media than just talking. A PA could find relevant new contacts for your CEO, listen for interesting topics, and provide hands on assistance.

Comment on Eliminating email, the new paperless office? by Gary Swale

Gary Swale — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:26:29 +0000

Spot on Rick – when all is told, it’s all about people, culture and leadership. Although it’s a cliche, the technology IS just the enabler, isn’t it?

Comment on Social Media is not about doing old things better by Luke W

Luke W — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:56:06 +0000

Clarion Clear. The blurring for many has been that they still confuse ‘social’ with something to do with facebook. There happens to be the synergy that if you DO become a truly social company and develop a brilliant culture as a result, sharing that culture via social media will be highly effective and win you admiration / leads / sales – but that’s the icing on the icing on the flake of the ice cream cone – getting more likes on FB is not the reason you reorganised your whole company – that’s the reason you hired a script kiddie to ‘do’ social media. Hopefully the prevalence of that misguided view will become less and less as time goes forward and more companies will take advice similar to your clear and loquacious comments above and realize the benefits of having a very collaborative organisation.

Luke W
Community Manager
OneDesk

Comment on Open doesn’t always mean Open by Jinu

Jinu — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:29:12 +0000

absolutely agree with you on this one. as far as Twitter is concerned, I wish they were just more open about their acquisitions too than just saying they acquired XYZ for manpower and engineering capabilities. Twitter seems to be so lost in their strategy.

Comment on Nielsen, Rogers and the lack of contribution by Are you stopping at 1% of your ultimate goal? | Don't Mind Rick

Are you stopping at 1% of your ultimate goal? | Don't Mind Rick — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:25:11 +0000

[...] take the theory of the Diffusion of Innovations of Rogers into account. You can read about that in this blog post I wrote a while ago. However if you read the article from Nielsen word by word you will notice the following: In most [...]

Comment on Your community needs 1,000 fans by Donnie Bachan

Donnie Bachan — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:08:27 +0000

@Shiraj, although tools like Klout and PeerIndex do not give a gauge of a person’s influence in your community, such tools do offer you the opportunity to see how influential that person is on a social media scale.

@Rick you are spot on here, the first thousand is extremely hard to build especially for SME’s where the brands have not really been developed either on or offline. Caring is extremely important and many businesses seem to forget this when trying to grow their community.

Comment on Facebook’s Timeline: the emperor’s new clothes or how it kills your brand by rick

rick — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:25:33 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised. Though for now they don’t allow you to include other people’s or brands’ updates into your timeline as some kind of milestone. Though they are allowing it in their advertising (*your friend X is using product Y*). So maybe at next year’s FB developer’s conference they might launch this. Since story telling is rather compelling for FB because it makes it even stickier.

Comment on Facebook’s Timeline: the emperor’s new clothes or how it kills your brand by Rena

Rena — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:15:36 +0000

Do you think that FB timeline is trying to make move on what Storify does rather well?

Comment on Facebook’s Timeline: the emperor’s new clothes or how it kills your brand by Arjen

Arjen — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:09:01 +0000

In regards to the storytelling of companies, Listen the next 18 minutes to this TED talk of Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action

http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html