25 Hours In Your Day? 4 Tips To Get You There

How many times have you said, “I just don’t have time!”   And now, with the world at your fingertips, with the internet and global business buzzing by in nanoseconds, having time to get everything done seems more and more difficult to accomplish.

Sorry there will never be a 25th hour in your day  But getting your priorities in order, making wise time choices, and being real with your self, can go a long way.

Here are 4 time management exercises to help you get control of your schedule.  Who knows, maybe you can find the 25th hour. Read IBM’s Social Butterfly, Lorian Lipton, as she makes you more productive with her 25 Hours In Your Day? 4 Tips To Get You There, from her blog The Digital Attitude: Becoming Eminent.

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Greater IBM, what would you add to these? Have you got any tips to share?

- Posted by Lorian Lipton

18 Ways To Increase Your Digital Presence

Getting or keeping a job in today’s unstable business climate takes coming up with new ideas and new ways to present yourself  – it takes digital presence.

Increasing your digital presence on social media is a lot more than just updating your status on Facebook or IBM Connections.

Here are 18 sure fire ways to help you get online and noticed. Read along as IBM’s Social Butterfly, Lorian Lipton, motivates you with her 18 Ways To Increase Your Digital Presence, from her blog The Digital Attitude: Becoming Eminent.

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Greater IBM, what would you add to these? Have you got any tips to share?

 

 

- Posted by Lorian Lipton

Where is Your Internal Social Strategy?

@khalidraza9

The need for social strategy:

A friend of mine joined an organization recently and emailed to ask me to mentor him on use of social tools within the organization and also to help him create more robust SocialGlamor for him in the wider world.

While chatting with him, I asked, why does he need to use these tools – and his response stumped me! He said he wanted to use these tools to catch up with the people around him who are using them everyday. He did not know WHY he needed to become social. He also mentioned that he does not have time for it but his leadership wants him to become social. This is more dangerous that the Cloned Social concept!

Where are we heading?

The use of social tools, like Twitter, Facebook, Connections, blogging., etc should make us more productive, is what i understood all along, but recently the pull-push marketing has made the use these tools just a fashion statement. “Because everyone is using it, you should,” is a fallacy and will make more fatigued employees and will defeat the purpose.

Read the complete post on SocialGlamor.

Related:

• Where is your internal Social Strategy? (khalidraza9.wordpress.com)
• Social Media Strategies in 2013 (articlewinter.wordpress.com)
• Applying the 80/20 rule to Social Media (domo.com)

The 12 Types of Social Media Users: Which One Are You? (Infographic)

When it comes to how you use social media, are you a lurker? Or more like a Ghost, a Changeling, or a Peacock? Which one are YOU? (Infographic by firstdirect.com)

- Posted by Regan Kelly

Maximize Your Relationship with IBM Social Business – Thurs., April 18

Businesses move from liking to leading when they look beyond social media to see how social technologies drive real business value. From marketing and sales to product and service innovation, social is changing the way people connect and the way organizations succeed.

The goal of this free Maximize Your Relationship with Social Business event this Thursday, April 18, is to stimulate strategic thinking around social business and to showcase the cutting-edge IBM tools that will ensure you and your customers remain at the forefront of this innovative approach to business.

Highlights of the event:

• Discuss why social business is such a big deal now, and why will it be a big deal tomorrow
• IBM social business offerings and what you need to know about them
• How to get started and more resources for enablement
• Understand IBM business partners that have successfully integrated IBM Social Business tools into their business models

All are welcome – this is a Social Business 101 event! Details and enrollment.

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Related:

IBM Social Business

Follow IBM Social Business on Twitter

Get Social. Do Business. – Become a Social Business

- Posted by Regan Kelly

How Consumer Trends Are Being Influenced by Social Media (Infographic)

Today’s consumer is likely to be on social media, and the activity on those sites affects their decision making when it comes to purchasing. In this infographic from Mashable.com, take a look at the statistics that support this trend.

from Mashable.com

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How has the rise of social media changed how you do business? Let us know in the Leave a Reply field below.

Posted by Regan Kelly

Listening to the Voices of Social Business

Ethan McCarty, IBM director, enterprise social strategy and programs (and Greater IBMer) recently wrote a popular new blog post on the business world’s view of social media. “The common view in the business world is that social media is simply a fun tool for checking in with friends and family – something that I, and millions of others, enjoy every day,” he writes.

Ethan McCarty, Director of Enterprise Social Strategy and Programs, IBM

“However, this perception sells social media short and ultimately prevents many businesses from harnessing its true potential.”

The possibilities of social media, in other words, go far beyond glancing through your Facebook news feed to stay current. With the extensive power and influence it offers, social media is today nothing less than a force for organizational change and business value, he writes.

Which organizations are going to come out on top to be the big winners?  Read the rest at Wired.com.
Originally published at A Smarter Planet blog

 

 

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– Posted by Regan Kelly, Editor/Community Manager, The Greater IBM Connection

4 Big Tips for LinkedIn Endorsements and Skills

In case you haven’t noticed, LinkedIn endorsements are here to stay. Why not make the most of this network feature on your profile?

In this fascinating piece from Careerealism.com, here’s why: Using this section wisely is essential, because LinkedIn has now made it searchable by recruiters. So if you want to maximize your chances of attracting hiring managers’ attention, start doing these four things today.

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What do you think of LinkedIn’s endorsements feature? Do you think endorsements are helpful? Let us know in the Comments.

LinkedIn Group Engagement Strategy? Here’s Our All-Time Top Posts

(Graphic credit: Brafton)

Thinking about how to better engage your group members on LinkedIn?  This may help.  It’s an overview of the all-time most popular posts for The Greater IBM Connection, one of the largest business networking groups on LinkedIn.  Initially we were going to pull a list just for 2012 but thought this list yields a bit more insight into what works well for engaging LinkedIn group members.  Here’s an overview of the all-time top ten LinkedIn discussions, by number of likes/comments/votes.  For the most part, questions about affiliation to IBM or career did the best.  It’s also worth mentioning the #11 most popular post since it fell off this list but does tie in well with our January theme of ‘leadership’.  It was “Who was the greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?  Why?  Your Story?” posted in Aug 2011 with 103 comments/likes.

LINKEDIN DISCUSSION	NUMBER OF COMMENTS/LIKES
1 – Lessons Learned – …What’s one lesson YOU learned at IBM that you use in the rest of your life? (Mar 2011)	542
2 – What’s the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?  What’s one fascinating thing about you that has nothing to do with IBM? (Feb 2012 and Oct 2012)	266 combined
3 – Whom would return to IBM? poll (Dec 2011)	232 votes, 39 comments/likes
4 – What was the project you were involved/participated in at IBM that you will always remember? (Mar 2011)	219
5 – What motivates you at work, beyond the paycheck? poll(Mar 2012)	194 votes, 42 comments/likes
6 – Just for a laugh….How to spot an old IBMer (Apr 2012)	156
7 – Looking to return to IBM?(May 2012)	154
8 – Why former IBMers who left maybe years ago for any reason are still active on The Greater IBM Connection? (June 2012)	132
9 – Greater IBMers:  What’s your most productive time of day?  poll (Nov 2012)	110 votes, 8 comments
10 – CHALLENGE:  Describe the purpose of IT governance in no more than a 160 characters SMS message… (Feb 2010)	108

–Posted by Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection

What’s The Buzz for December 2012

Here’s a quick snapshot of what YOU have been talking about for the month of December 2012. Top five discussions/posts on LinkedIn, Facebook, our blog, and Twitter

LINKEDIN DISCUSSION	NUMBER OF COMMENTS/ LIKES
Why former IBMers who left maybe years ago for any reason are still active on The Greater IBM Connection?	58 (Dec), 128 all time
IBM Leader in Gutting 401(k)s – Forbes	34 (Dec), 39 all time
Has IBM lost the I…apparently in job postings!…(all job adverts are USA…)	33
Lotus No More	27
Great article….Passing of Zig Ziglar	21
FACEBOOK POSTS	NUMBER OF COMMENTS/ LIKES/ SHARES
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has won a place in a BIG year-end list (Ginni Rometty photo and link to CNN story)	228
Green for the holidays! Read about how an IBM Centennial Grant supports the movement for green schools in Singapore (Photo and link to blog story)	112
It’s a matter of subtraction, not addition – try NOT doing these 10 things and see how your work life and happiness levels can improve (link to blog post)	44
#IBMAlumni, here’s another short history quiz for you – who invented the world’s first hard drive? (Photo and link to blog story)	44
#ibm #ibmsimon GreaterIBMers, did you think that the world’s first #Smartphone = #Apple or #Android? Think again… (Photo and link to blog story)	42
BLOG POSTS	NUMBER OF COMMENTS/ LIKES/ SHARES
Innovation Breakthrough: IBM Chip to Use LIGHT to Significantly Accelerate Your Internet	88
Be Happier at Work: Stop Doing These 10 Things Right Now	88
Are You on the Fast Track? New Tech Trends Study Out Now	50
World’s First Smartphone = Apple or Android? Think again…	46
IBM’s 5 in 5: Welcome To The Era of Cognitive Systems	28
TWEETS	NUMBER OF RETWEETS
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg	5
Infographic: what the 2012 #IBMTechTrends results can tell us about skill gaps in technology.	4
#ibm #bigdata #smarteranalytics Free Webcast 12/6 at 11am ET – Leveraging Analytics for Competitive Advantage	4
Factoid: We Spent 121 Billion Minutes on Social Media in One Month	4
(too many to list)	3 each

–Posted by Julie Yamamoto, Program Manager, The Greater IBM Connection