Comments on: Social Media for the Shy http://www.infovark.com/2009/04/20/social-media-for-the-shy/ Digging the world of Enterprise 2.0 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Where do you look for information first? | Infovark http://www.infovark.com/2009/04/20/social-media-for-the-shy/comment-page-1/#comment-4541 Where do you look for information first? | Infovark Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:47:36 +0000 http://www.infovark.com/?p=815#comment-4541 [...] this story because most of us aren’t like Nino. We don’t reach out to others first. Perhaps we feel shy or embarrassed. Perhaps we fear looking silly or misinformed. Or perhaps it’s out of consideration for our [...] [...] this story because most of us aren’t like Nino. We don’t reach out to others first. Perhaps we feel shy or embarrassed. Perhaps we fear looking silly or misinformed. Or perhaps it’s out of consideration for our [...]

]]> By: Pie http://www.infovark.com/2009/04/20/social-media-for-the-shy/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Pie Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:14:16 +0000 http://www.infovark.com/?p=815#comment-508 There has to be something fun. To get the others going. In order to get users into one system, and get their profiles updated, we held a contest. We had users nominate their favorite 5 and then we put it up for votes. Those that were gung-ho got the other in to vote and to offer feedback. We ended-up with 95% of the profiles fully setup with pictures and interesting information. That was the carrot. Our stick was PTO approval. Everyone takes vacation, so everyone has to at least periodically enter the app. We force-fed the process into the platform so that people had to go there, and hopefully absorb other things while they were there. -Pie There has to be something fun. To get the others going.

In order to get users into one system, and get their profiles updated, we held a contest. We had users nominate their favorite 5 and then we put it up for votes. Those that were gung-ho got the other in to vote and to offer feedback. We ended-up with 95% of the profiles fully setup with pictures and interesting information.

That was the carrot. Our stick was PTO approval. Everyone takes vacation, so everyone has to at least periodically enter the app. We force-fed the process into the platform so that people had to go there, and hopefully absorb other things while they were there.

-Pie

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