Archive for July, 2009

Sales 2.0 Poll

I have been speaking a lot lately on Sales 2.0 and how it can have a dramatic impact throughout the sales cycle. I have seen this in my sales career and within progressive organizations that have started to adopt the techniques.
I wanted to ask about where all of you see the strongest impact of [...]

Friday Funnies: Social Media’s Worst Knock Knock Jokes

The Constructing Social team has been hard at work for the past four years to come up with a good social media knock-knock joke. After hundreds of hours of exhaustive research and testing, we have come to the shocking conclusion: there is no funny social media knock-knock joke.
The Constructing Social Lab sheepishly presents [...]

Social Data into Wisdom

Social media creates a mountainous pile of data on a daily basis.  How do you handle this data of followers, subscribers, friends, views and more?  While there are a ton of great tools including Radian6, Techrigy and Crimson Hexigon – I wanted to talk more about overall goals.
So let’s break down the path from a [...]

Friday Funnies: Draw Tippy- You May Have Social Media Talent!

Do you think you have what it takes to become a social media expert?  Do you long for people only knowing your Twitter handle and not your name? Does your family bore you and are you longing for the more exciting world of Facebook, Twitter and blogging?  Were you often the last one picked on [...]

Friday Funnies: Al Gore to Trademark Internet

Al Gore via last.fm

In a Constructing Social exclusive, we have received word from our Kentucky affiliate that Senator Al Gore has filed for trademark protection of the term ‘Internet’.  Following this week’s announcement that Twitter(TM)’s co-founder’s Biz Stone is trademarking the term Tweet, the former  Presidential candidate and well known founder of the Internet is [...]

Community Engagement Modeling

Over the past 4 years I have been thinking about how to get individuals involved with and participating within a community. It is not an easy thing to get a group of individuals comfortable with your site and each other to the point of participating and caring when they become a true community. [...]