Which brands/companies that do an stellar social media job? #brandchat

Which brands/companies do you admire and why?
Would love your input.
 
 
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How to publish multilingual content on Facebook?

Facebook and other social network sites are catering to a large multicultural audience; companies should make sure they fully take advantage of those features to deliver the most relevant content.

You have got too many Facebook friends !

I tried to friend @kyleplacy on Facebook and this is what I get.

Well, it is getting frustrating. 
The solution : Let people like him convert his Friend page into a Fan page. ( I am assuming Kyle wants to this)
Can Facebook do something about this? 
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Micromanagement is NOT necessary

We all have been, at one point or another, confronted to a manager,supervisor,client, or even colleague, that micromanaged our work. The micromanager has this urge to overshadow your every move all the time. They thouroughly go into every corner of your task and have this manner of picking on unnecessary details to obtain a justification from you. [...]

In projects, are you the pig or the chicken?

This post is not about Chinese astrology but about the story of a pig and a chicken chatting about doing business together ; it is usually told to illustrate the roles and degree of commitment in projects and more particularly, in the Agile SCRUM project methodology.
As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the chicken’s [...]

Why Facebook should quickly improve business Pages

Why Facebook should quickly improve business Pages

UPDATE: Social Media and Costco, Where are they?

The day after I published this post Social Media and Costco, Where are they? , I received quite nice comment from a Costco employee who confirmed what I thought: Costco does monitor the social media landscape. If it is not official, yet, at least, employees and advocates do monitor the wholesaler brand across social media.

Ryan [...]

Social media and Costco – Where are they?

 
As a business consultant, I look at Costco with a lot of interest.  It took me a good 2 years to be convinced that I needed their membership card. I used to piggyback once or twice a year with a privileged family member.
Now, I am a member and I enter Costco feeling special, like if I belong [...]

@Forbes #myforbesidea contest

 
Just received an email from Forbes inviting me to look at their new Twitter contest. Forbes is running the #myforbesidea contest  until April 25th.
“@Forbes is running a Twitter contest and to win you have to come up with the best idea for a Twitter contest. We’ll run the contest with your idea and see how [...]

Social Media is free, you are welcome to pick my brain

 
In its modern form, social often refers to the redistribution of wealth. Social is often directed towards people. Social usually contrasts with capitalism and therefore, we usually get the  connotation of public, social, cheap, free;  think of the social state, social worker, social insurance, social –ism ….it is all about catering to people at a [...]