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Clara Shih (Author)
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July 31, 2010 0137085125 978-0137085125 2

“Clara’s book is a fun read and can be useful to anyone who wants to learn more about this powerful new era we’re in of social business.”

Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos

 

NEW Best Practices and Techniques for Growing Your Business with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn! Completely Updated!

• Five new chapters: planning/metrics, customer service, and much more

• New and revamped case studies

• New guest contributions from world-class experts, such as Charlene Li

• New, instantly actionable “To Do” lists after every chapter

• New Facebook discussion threads and much more!

 

Whatever your business or organizational goals, this book will help you use social networking to achieve them. Renowned social networking innovator Clara Shih brings together powerful new insights, best practices, and easy-to-use “To Do” lists packed with proven solutions from real-world case studies.

 

Writing for entrepreneurs and business professionals across marketing, sales, service, product development, and recruiting, Shih demonstrates how to move from tactical, reactive use of social networks toward strategic, proactive approaches–and how to accurately measure success.

 

This edition adds extensive new coverage, including hands-on techniques for hypertargeting, engaging customers through Twitter and LinkedIn, leveraging changing social norms, and much more. You’ll also find more than three dozen guest contributions from world-class experts such as author Don Tapscott and Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Piskorski, as well as a brand-new chapter on customer service and support, today’s fastest-growing area of business social networking.

 

Shih has even added new chapters focused on advice for small businesses, healthcare and education organizations, nonprofits, and political campaigns–making this the one indispensable social networking guide for every organization!


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About the Author

Clara Shih, named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology, is CEO and founder of Hearsay Labs–a provider of social CRM software for companies to identify and engage customers across Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. In 2007, Shih kicked off the “social CRM” movement with her Faceconnector application, the first business application on Facebook. Previously, Shih was a marketing and alliances executive at Salesforce.com, where she led partnerships with Facebook and LinkedIn. She has also worked in corporate strategy and software development at Google and Microsoft. Shih holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford, and a Master’s degree in Internet Studies from Oxford, where she studied as a United States Marshall Scholar. She is a frequent keynote speaker at global events ranging from AlwaysOn to Web 2.0 Expo. Follow Clara on Twitter at @clarashih!


Product Details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (July 31, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137085125
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137085125
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Dry repetitive writing with nothing new, June 12, 2011
This book is a waste of time and difficult dry reading. The first 5% has the author going on and on about herself and credentials. Nothing written in the first few chapters is any news and probably a book suitable for my recently internet literate Mother. It doesn't tell social media folks anything they don't already know. Found it dry, boring and repetitive with old case studies.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, easy-to-read, and comprehensive . . ., August 22, 2011
This review is from: The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
Book review by Richard L. Weaver II, Ph.D.

It should be clear from the outset that I am reviewing the 2011 (second edition) of this book, not the first. Most of the reviews at Amazon.com (as I write this) are of the first edition, and there have been significant and important changes since then.

Changes from the first edition? Shih writes of the changes on page 2:

-- Each chapter now ends with a summary of takeways and an actionable to-do list.

-- There are now two dozen case stuides and example that bring concepts to life.

-- Rather than discuss Facebook alone, Shih now offers extensive coverage of Twiter and Linkedin as well.

-- There are expert opinion sidebars from well known social media authorities.

-- Five new chapters have been added including one on customer service, one on innovation and collaboration, one on ways to develop an individualized Facebook Era plan, one that offers advice for small businesses, and one on advice for nonprofits, healthcare, education, and political campaigns.

The book is divided into four parts:

1. Why social networking matters for business

2. Social networking across your organization

3. Step-by-step guide to social networking for business

4. Social networking strategy

This is a basic book written for beginners. If you are a regular Facebook (Twiter, Linkedin, MySpace, Renren in China, Mixi in Japan, Odnoklassniki in Rusia), you may not find a whole lot that is new here, but Shih is not writing this book for you.

I found the book informative, easy-to-read, and comprehensive. If there is anything about Facebook that you don't know, you will find it here. I found the gray boxes by other authors ("more than three dozen guest contributions from world-class experts") interesting and valuable. The inclusion of actual pictures from Facebook pages was helpful.

Although I regret the fact that Shih avoided using any references (other than the boxes by guest authors who were all experts in their respective fields) or offered "Other Books to Read," or even a bibliography, there is a great deal of information here to digest.

I found her hands-on techniques useful, her insights valuable, and her easy-to-use "To Do" lists solid. This is a book for anyone who wants a complete look at social networking.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but disappointing, June 15, 2011
This review is from: The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
For such a young person--or anyone for that matter--Clara Shih is extremely bright and incredibly accomplished, but for some reason, I found her book hard to digest; I just didn't really like the way it was structured, and I didn't come away feeling like I knew a lot more for having read it.

If you're buying with the intention of learning the how-to part of social networking, you may as well just skip the first 185 pages because everything before that isn't much more than a repetitive account of how facebook is changing the way businesses interact with their customers, and quite frankly, the remainder of it left me wanting more.
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