Given the recession, and the proliferation of small and medium sized businesses, I spoke to Duncan Egan recently, the Senior Director of Marketing for Taleo, an on-demand talent management solution company. Egan knows tons about small and medium sized businesses and told me the social media tools he finds most effective are Ning, Twitter and Facebook. He tells me that Ning is great community site platform and discusses how to use Facebook and Twitter so they leverage each other.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 1:38 am and is filed under: Marketing Voices. Tags:, Duncan Egan, Facebook, Ning, recession, SMB, Social Media Tools, Talent Management, Taleo, Twitter.