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SPRConnect       NEW RESOURCES TO HELP WITH YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY If you were able to attend David Nour’sRelationship Economics and Social Networking NEXT session at the Advantage Business Conference in Miami on June 24, we hope you found the content of interest and value. A copy of the presentation is now available on SPRConnect. Even if you missed the ABC presentation, we welcome you to join the Social Media Best Practices group onSPRConnect and take advantage of the many resources posted there. In addition to the ABC presentation, David has posted additional resources to help with your company’s social media strategy. To get started, join the Social Media Best Practices group; under the Resources section of the group you will find the copy of the presentation. It is a large PDF file, but is well worth the minute or two it might take to download. To learn more about how to navigate around and take the best out of the SPRConnect community go to Globalunder the Resources section in the left navigation bar and find SPRConnect Tutorials.   If you would like to meet your top matches, join a new group, reply to a forum or explore a resource, click here to login.

If you think it’s a good idea to abdicate your relationships to technology, then think again! Couple of reasons why this is not the best path to take.

David speaks on relationships and technology during the Relationship Economics Closing Keynote at the Sun Microsystems Annual Partner Summit – Bellagio, Las Vegas.

RENetworks – our intelligent, private, enterprise social network is growing faster than ever.  It has become a community of great ideas, great conversations, and great insights.  Below are some new features of the 8.5 version.

Hope you’ll join us and take advantage of our renewed focus to help our clients derive unprecedented growth through unique return on their strategic relationships.

Best,

David

To learn more about how to become a member, click on the logo below:

Here is the list of exciting new features that will be available in this release:

• Session State – We now save a cookie to your browser so when you navigate away from the site, you will not be required to sign in again. If you quit the web browser or click the Sign Out button, the cookie is no longer valid and the site will require you to log in again.
  

• Comments on introCard – This allows you to post a short, public-facing comment on another user’s introCard. Users are able to turn this feature off via the User Settings dialog and delete any messages that appear on his/her card.

  

• Activities on introCard – This  shows the community member’s recent activities on the new Activities tab. It allows you to click through to show all forum posts and resources that that person has created.

• introCard scrolling – The new arrows on introCard allow you to scroll through all previously opened introCards.
  

• Share Links to Content – This allows you to copy a URL link to the clipboard and share the links with others in the community. You are able to share links to the following content:
  

  • Search parameters and results

  • Resource items

  • Forum topics

 

Below are some fixes that we address and have included in this 8.5 release:

• Text

  • Correctly handle encoding for URL links with parameters.  [#2638]

  • Illegal Characters are removed when saving user profiles. [#2629]

  • Remove the extra bullet above a bulleted list. [#2538]

  • MS Office quotes are retained when pasted into our text editor. [#2539]

• Group

  • Display confirmation dialog after inviting users to group is done. [#2539]

• Forum

  • Allow user to click OK only once when creating a Forum topic so it prevents users from creating multiple topic entries. [#2609]

Despite all the evidence to the contrary from great brands such as SAP, Clorox, and CME Group, people still question if social media and word of mouth can really work for B2B marketing.

Add Texas Instruments to that growing list. Its E2E (engineer-to-engineer) community is connecting internal experts with external engineers. It’s increasing collaboration, driving productivity, and it’s having a real impact on the bottom line.

How Texas Instruments’ E2E Community is Driving Engagement — presented by George Dearing and Devashish Saxena from GasPedal on Vimeo.

Read the full story for a summary of the main points …

Do you have online presence? If Yes, What is working? What is not? How do you know? What is the strategy behind all your online efforts?

David Nour founder of Relationship Economics is talking about Social Media Strategy in this video clip and how you can answer the above mentioned questions.