Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss - Don’t Forget about Yourself!

A few days back, Chris Brogan did it again and put together a very insightful and helpful blog post, specially for those folks who are not so sure about how to sell Social Computing to their managers and whoever else up in the management chain. And to that effect he put together " Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss ", which, in case you may not have seen it, is a very good read, indeed, to get plenty of good ideas on how you can bring up the conversation with your manager. After having gone through the list a few times, there are, of course, a couple of them which would be part of my favourites, more than anything else because I have been experiencing them myself all along in my role as a social computing evangelist at IBM. To name: "7. Internally, social media tools can be used to help with status information, training, project collaboration. Most tools like blogs, twitter-clones like identi.ca , etc can be set up internally instead of used on the public web, f...