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hello world. my name is Ryan Alexander Boyles. often, it's pronounced the RAB. i'm into declarative living. i am a connector. this is my life-stream / tumblr / blog. call it what you will. find my sxsw posts.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The role of content creator is shifting. We are curators of content created by our employees. We very much believe that our employees are our greatest resource.
John Rooney via Mashable: IBM Has Become a Publisher
Underscoring the complete uselessness of social media rankings
What a great take on rankings by fellow IBMer Adam Christensen. He said what I was thinking. I have the same intuition here and alarm bells go off when I see these sort of charts fly around without real data or stories to back them up and provide context.
![Which Company Has the Most “Social” Employees? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Each company’s ranking is determined by its employees’ overall social media activity, including the average number of connections across various networks. Flowtown even ranked employees on Twitter by average number of tweets and followers, and compared male and female employees’ social scores.
Do the deeds of employees who are active online have a trickle-up effect on a brand’s overall social media presence?
um okay. but something is really off about this data. i work for one of the companies tied at slot #48. you know, the one that has one of the first and most innovative social media policies for it’s employees of companies world-wide (and this reinforced by the same source that reported on “social media ranking” - Mashable). what does it all mean? not much, but it got some retweets i guess (guilty).
Edit note: you can read Adam’s post “Underscoring the complete uselessness of ranking” for a great perspective as well.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2mrg0GgZO1qz5njno1_500.png)
Which Company Has the Most “Social” Employees? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Each company’s ranking is determined by its employees’ overall social media activity, including the average number of connections across various networks. Flowtown even ranked employees on Twitter by average number of tweets and followers, and compared male and female employees’ social scores.
Do the deeds of employees who are active online have a trickle-up effect on a brand’s overall social media presence?
um okay. but something is really off about this data. i work for one of the companies tied at slot #48. you know, the one that has one of the first and most innovative social media policies for it’s employees of companies world-wide (and this reinforced by the same source that reported on “social media ranking” - Mashable). what does it all mean? not much, but it got some retweets i guess (guilty).
Edit note: you can read Adam’s post “Underscoring the complete uselessness of ranking” for a great perspective as well.
People matter!
On the Web, you cannot rely on user identity. If someone with a username thom112 tags a piece of content, the extent to which you can trust it depends on how much you trust thom112. In an enterprise, however, you can trust user identity. You can also make positive assumptions about the motivations and professional standards of a person. The enterprise community is especially well suited for a library of collective Web intelligence. Reliable user identity is the basis for expertise and community-of-interest discovery.
On Differentiation
– Price
– Quality
– Employees?
via hallicious
