What should we think of a business that disdains its products ?

socialmedia

Summary : when one invests in a company, valuing it, it’s normal to have a close look at the customers and the way currents ones could be devlopped and new ones acquired. The world of social networks and its model where the customer is the brand and the user the product changes the conditions because, [...]

Do recruiters have still a role in recruitment ? And which one ?

SocialBusiness

Summary : recruiters still struggle to measure the actual performance of social networks for recruiting. Surely underestimated, obviously underexploited, certainly misused. If we try to digg a little further, two things are clear. First, candidates don’t make a good use of these tools, what does not help to get any added-value and raises a question [...]

Are public social networks really people centric ?

SocialBusiness

Summary : social networks are people centric, or, at least, are supposed to be and that’s taken as a given. In fact those services are more and more dedicated to bringing people around brands, leading the model astray. Everything is ok as long as people find what they’re looking for but the situation can topple [...]

When customer service goes beyond the conversational catch-all : the Société Générale case

SocialBusiness

Summary :the future of customer relationship will be on the web. Quite logical when we see the number of customers using mobile devices and the proliferation of social plans that aim at increasing exchanges between customers and businesses. But believing that starting a conversational approach to customer relationship is enough is a mistake. Customers are [...]

Communities and selfishnesses gatherings

socialmedia

Summary : while it’s quite hard for enterprises to enter the good olds forums where fans have passionate conversations, they’re still very uncomfortable with the communities they try to agregate on the “modern web”, being uncertain about what to do or give to create a real engagement. In fact, all the problem is in the [...]

Understanding social messaging concept and tools

marketstrat

Summary :enterprise social messaging is much more complex to understand that a simple enterprise Twitter. It’s about articulating flows, value creation, usage in a very constrained environment. While there are lots of solutions providing social messaging functionalities, the concept is still hard to get for organizations that still lack keys for understanding. A situation that [...]

Social CRM is not about media but a new approach to customer relationship

Summary : everyone has an idea, even a rough one, of where social CRM is taking us but no one exactly knows what will be the levers. A common mistake is to keep on managing customers the old way, as a passive target whose only function is to buy in a system where value is [...]

Is Facebook the future of call-centers ? The Air France KLM Switzerland case

Summary : Facebook is usually considered as a communication and marketing tool. But it’s becoming more and more obvious that it’s becoming a customer relationship tool what has an important impact on the design of the community management system and the role of the community manager that’s becoming the central point of a service and [...]

Business awareness : the social signal without relationship

socialmedia

Summary : Everytime we talk about social media we focus on rich relationships and exchanges, conversations, community feeling, what are very heavy and complex things to make happen. That’s forgetting that there’s a lighter and at least as productive way to use social channels : a short, factual social signal that aims at informing hand [...]

A world in 140 characters ? Really ?

socialmedia

Summary : Are we linving in a 140 characters world ? Not at all. 140 characters is only the signal that points at something bigger and without which no signal would exist. Sometimes we need symbol to show how our world is changing, to what extent a tool is leaving its mark on an era [...]