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Afraid of Twitter?
You shouldn’t be afraid of twitter, but if you are, take a baby step internally with Yammer.
Yammer is a tool for making your organization more productive through the exchange of status updates and group messages.
You can use Yammer to:
- Stay connected with co-workers
- Start a discussion
- Share news, documents and links
- Ask or answer questions
- Create a group mailing list
- Look up a co-worker’s contact info
- Search for a topic
- See what’s popular and who’s influential
For now, Yammer is free for all users. Companies can pay for optional administrative tools, security features, and data ownership. The cost is $1 per employee per month, after a 30-day free trial period.
Have fun! Start yammering.
Dang. We’re never going to get any work done.
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Blah Blah Blah blog! (revisited)
It was nine months ago when we published our very first blog post:
Well it looks like you can teach an old dog new tricks! So, here we go: the folks at Mindpower have made a commitment to join in the fun. It seems like everyone is blogging. Well, either they have a blog or are reporting on them. As a matter of fact (according to Technorati as of June 10, 2008) there are now over 112 million (and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media) blogs on the blogosphere. Are they a fad or will they revolutionize communication? Only time will tell, but we do know this, having a blog may not make or break you, but not having one is not good especially if your competition is out there blah blah bloggin’ and telling everyone how they are soooo much better than you. We’ll just wait and see what happens.
We’ve done “okay” I suppose. Some posts are better than others. But I still struggle with purpose. Why do we really have presence? Does Mindpower’s Brain Candy Blog only exist because we’re supposed to? Have we generated any incremental revenue or signed on a new client from our blog? Nope. Not yet. Are we sharing relevant content? Or interesting commentary? Or, like so many folks with blogs, are we simply being boring as hell and entertaining only ourselves?
Do we even need a blog? when there are microblogging options like twitter. Yeah. You betcha: We’re there. And Facebook. (Won’t you become a fan? That would be progress.) And LinkedIn. Yup. We’re there, too.
Don’t get me wrong. Blogs have a place. Many — if not most — of our clients should have a blog! I’m just wondering if we should. It’s akin to the Powerpoint option of spinning logos: just because you can, does not mean you should.
It’s been nine months. (Cosmic blogosphere irony — the birth of our blog?) As I mentioned back in June, I’m still waiting and I’m still watching. I’m not so sure that blogs aren’t a fad. There are so many blogs now, how can anyone ever decide which ones are worth revisiting? Very few days pass when I don’t bookmark or subscribe to a blog, but I can’t say there are more than two or three that I actually visit on a daily, even a weekly basis.
Should we keep blogging? What would interest you? What would keep you coming back? Better yet, if we’re going to take the time to keep on keeping on, how can we make some money? After all, we’re in the middle of a recession.
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Mindpower Inc’s Great Collaboration: Pro Bono Branding Project for Higher Ed
Nope. We’re not kidding!
This month, February 2009, we’re celebrating our fifteenth anniversary and we want to give back to a cause we love and believe in: higher education.
We plan to donate $250,000 of agency time and talent to a college or university interested in developing its
institutional brand. We’re prepared to offer one U.S. college or university up to 1,500 hours of “mindpower” for a brand development engagement.
How? We’re issuing a reverse RFP. Any college or university interested in participating should submit a response by March 20, 2009.
Proposal requirements are posted on our website.
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