Social media is evolving into social business, implying business intelligence. Conducting social business includes deliberately turning social media into an integrated tool for customer and supplier recruitment.
- By Debra Jenkins
The new term floating around management circles is “social business,” which takes social media to the next logical level of deliberate integration of technologies to create a business advantage. Finding the right customers and suppliers are two important factors in business success, so leveraging social media to fulfill that function makes perfect sense.
Social media is maturing and is now recognized as an avenue for creating real busi....