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A New Model for Funding Social Media

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  September 29, 2009  |  Comments Off

We are all familiar with the advertising-driven model for social media (ex. facebook), the donation-based model (ex. Wikipedia), and the elusive subscription-based model. After talking with government organizations that were including the creation of and posting to a social media based collaborative environment in their funding grants to research organizations, I have talked about a [...]

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How High is the Failure Rate for Social Media Initiatives?

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  September 23, 2009  |  7 Comments

I have been talking with clients and publishing on a very prevalent worst practice I call “Provide and Pray.” This involves simply providing access to a social software tool and praying something valuable comes from it. They pray that a community actually forms and that its activity delivers value to the enterprise. This isn’t “build [...]

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Facebook Users Don’t Care About Your Company

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  September 15, 2009  |  1 Comment

I often talk to clients who ask about how they can tap facebook for enterprise value. I sometimes get the impression that they feel facebook participants are just hanging out itching for the opportunity to interact with them. All they need is permission to build a corporate facebook profile. This is the point where I [...]

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