Social Media Performance Group announces a short survey entitled Is Your Organization Ready for Social Media?

It's a Social Media Readiness Survey that can help you determine where your organization stands. Completing the survey can help your organization determine its readiness to use social media to improve business results.

It can also help change agents make the case for social media business use.

And the more people in your organization who take the survey, the more compelling the results become.

So here are the top 10 reasons why you should get everyone in your organization to take our survey:

10. Everybody's talking about social networking / social media, but nobody's doing anything about it.

9.  I know some of our employees are talking about our company online, but I don't know if that's a good idea.

8.  Our competitiion is using social media, but I'm not sure we're ready as an organization to take that step.

7.  I wonder if I'm the only one in my organization who hasn't a clue about this social media thing.

6.  We're blocking access to social media, especially YouTube, but I'm not sure how big a problem social media use really is.

5.  We've got agencies and consultants trying to sell us social media engagements, but I wonder if we're ready to take that step.

4.   We're talking about doing some internal social media prototypes and we'd love to assess our readiness.

3.  Our [marketing | PR | branding] folks are doing something with social media and are talking about getting the rest of the organization involved.

2.  We're trying to build an internal social media-based community and would like to know barriers to wide adoption.

1. If I register for the survey, you'll give me free analysis of my company's social media readiness? What's the catch?

Well, there's no catch. As soon as more than one person from your organization registers and takes the free survey, we'll give you access to real-time analysis of the responses.

If You're Worried About a Sales Call

Don't.

We won't contact you. You'll have to contact us, by emailing request (at) socialmediaperformancegroup.com, if you'd like us to help to plan your social media strategy, before social media sneaks its way into your organization's business practices in an unplanned way.

If you'd like to learn more about us, click the toolbar above or to the left.

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http://selectsurvey.net/smpg/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=9lKH45m

Or this shorter URL:

http://bit.ly/dBOx6X

If you do invite your colleagues to join you in taking the survey, please tell them the exact name you want to use for your organization. If you all use the same text for your company name, all the results are collated together automatically. If some people use different text, you'll have to ask us to do some custom (chargeable) work to consolidate the results. Otherwise, you get the reports and charts for free.

Still Not Convinced?

Contact us for a plain English explanation of the benefits of using the survey in your organization. Or to ask us what all the fuss about social media is about. Or to find out about our free introductory Webinars. 

Have a great day!

If you're wondering how to leverage online social networking and other social media to build your business, we can help. Some of the services we provide:

• Determine which social media are appropriate for your enterprise
• Develop social media strategies for all business units
  
• Implement social media campaigns and create branded social networking sites
• Develop company policies regarding the use of social media
• Provide customized training on using social media safely and securely

There's lots of buzz and lots of confusion around the use of social media or social networking. Many experts talk in terms of the tools you can use and the techniques you can employ.

And much of this advice may be valuable to smaller organizations.

However, if you're a large enterprise with an established culture, and large marketing, sales, and customer service organizations, it can be hard to know how to get started.

That's why we've created the Enterprise Social Media Framework™.

We understand large companies, and we understand how social media can benefit your organization.

The framework is always improving as more people offer their ideas and insights. But like most frameworks, it is not a blueprint for integrating social media into your enterprise. Rather it encompasses a wealth of information and best practices you can use (with or without our help) to create your social media strategy and develop your plan to transform your organization.

Access to the framework is by invitation only. If you're interested, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Mike Ellsworth of Linked InSolutions is creator of the Enterprise Social Media Framework and an entrepreneur, trainer, and speaker with 15 years experience on the Web who has been a LinkedIn user since 2003. You’ll gain the benefit of Mike’s 24 years in enterprise IT, and 6 years as an IT strategy consultant helping companies from the Fortune 200 to small businesses adapt technology for business advantage.

The framework is the result of our work with several very large organization on social media strategy and implementation.