Pleased to say we're scaling up to meet demand at Brando Social (the full service social media agency I work at four days a week).
So if you fancy joining a growing company in a growing sector, we've got a couple of roles right now:
1. We need a web 2.0-savvvy Tech Project Manager to start NOW. Good if you can program some too.
2. Account Manager. Ideally you have 3 + yrs exp (some digital). You're great at managing relationships with clients and you're hungry to learn about social media (if you happen to know loads already, that's great too).
3. Junior Researcher. You're currently working or have worked at a market research organisation or similar and have 1-2 years experience.
If you're interested in any of these roles drop MD Jamie Burke a line (cc me).
The Guardian's Open Platform project has caused a bit of a stir, at a time when mass media of all kinds is struggling to work out business models that have a better fit with the networked world.
The clever bit about the Guardian's plan is that they don't pretend they have the answers - they are sharing what they have with the rest of the world in the hope that a bit of global crowd-sourcing will evolve a sustainable solution.
At least that's my take. But let Dr Chris Thorpe tell you more.
Chris (one of Brando Social Consult's team) has been consulting to The Guardian on the project for the last six months. Now it's live he can finally talk about it.
I interviewed him at the Brando Social offices last week and have finally edited the video...
Here (finally) are the edited highlights of Brando Social's Winning With Social Media event.
If it whets your appetite, you can see videos and slidedecks from the whole event right here.
Brando Social's Winning with Social Media event (at the Soho Hotel on Feb 26) was aimed at informing and exciting people about the revolution that is the peer-to-peerpower of the network.
And we hope we did a good job of that. (yes folks, I do work for Brando Social!)
If you weren't there - you can download/watch/share any of the useful bits and pieces including:]
MD Jamie Burke wrapped the morning up by introducing Brando Social Consult - our team of social media consultants with deep experience and a wide range of specialities - and telling those assembled about other services Brando Social offers. Watch the video and see the slides below.
The group-forming power of social media creates some fears for employees and employers. Issues of control conflict with the desire to unleashing potential.
Should you be letting your staff use social networks on 'your time'? Do you want your boss following you on facebook? If not, how can companies take advantage of the power of social media to make the most of their people and for their people to make the most of themselves?
These are the thorny issue Dr Chris Thorpe tackles here in the fourth of the videos from BrandoSocial's Winning With Social Media event, held at the Soho Hotel in London last week. Chris advises MySpace and The Guardian group, and he's one of the consultants at BrandoSocial. He's helped create internal networks for some of the biggest names in business, too.
One of the toughest challenges facing those of us seeking to evangelise the use of social media for its group-forming, co-creating, conversation-enabling, epoch-making value, is getting sign-off from those holding the purse-strings.
Like many embedded in social media I tend to 'know' there's value in it. I don't need anyone to calculate it for me and offer me a Return On Investment.
But not everyone is embedded in social media - and that 'not everyone' often includes those in the boardroom who need to justify every sweat of spend to shareholders and other stakeholders - especially in troubled times.
So Luke Brynley-Jones' presentation at Brando Social's Winning With Social Media event might be just what you were waiting for.
Luke argues that if you can measure something you can ascribe value to it - and reveals how you can go about measuring social media.
It's the third video from the morning session of Winning With Social Media (which was held at the Soho Hotel, London, last week). Watch it below. I've also added Luke's slidedeck.
Alternatively, watch the video alongside the slidedeck on the brandosocial.com site.
The previous two parts: What is social media? and Adapting Brands and organisations to the networked world (by me) and From Interruption to Engagement (by Alan Moore) have been made available on this blog earlier this week.
And yes, there is more to come!
Hope you're enjoying the series and I do, as always, welcome your comments and contributions.
Disclosure: I work for Brando Social.
Part two of BrandoSocial.com's Winning With Social Media - held at the Soho Hotel in London last week, featured Alan Moore. Alan talked about the journey from interruption to engagement. See his video and slidedeck below. Part 1 (my opening bit) was published on this blog yesterday March 3. Disclosure: I work for BrandoSocial.
Pleased to say we are now able to share video and slidedecks from BrandoSocial's Winning With Social Media event. I'm going to add them to my blog over the next few days, in the order we appeared. Up first, me, defining what social media is, defining the size of the prize and the urgency and inevitability of involvement - and how brands and organisations can adapt to our ever-more networked world.
The rate of change is so rapid it's difficult for one person to keep up to speed. Let's pool our thoughts, share our reactions and, who knows, even reach some shared conclusions worth arriving at?
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