Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Jacob Morgan asks this question in his post, Collaboration in the 2.0 Enterprise. He begins with the broad Wikipedia definition of collaboration. Then points out that while collaborate may be relative simple when it involves a few people, what happens when it involves a few thousand people as in the connected 2.0 enterprise?
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
It is surprising to me how many big companies do not understand how the web and social media is going to empower and change EVERY ASPECT of their business, their industry and their competitors business. The reason is simple, the operating system for business has changed, in other words the way human beings are motivated [...]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
The Center for Media Research has reported on a paper that reaches the conclusions that executives in many companies are worried about social media in some form or another. If it’s not how employees are wasting valuable company time as a result of their Twitter and / or Facebook fetishes (51%) it is about how [...]
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
This is a question I see discussed more often. Here is a post on the collaboration platforms that are integrating micro-messaging. What has been your experience? Is there a role of both approaches in parallel with different functions? Are there different adoption challenges? Here is a set of comments from an email group that I [...]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Nineteen micro-sharing applications are reviewed and compared in Pistachio Consulting’s Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison. This is an excellent resource for anyone considering micro-message adoption in the enterprise. The reports first defines micro-sharing as “social networking tools and systems that enable listening, awareness, communication and collaboration between people, through short bursts of text, links, and multimedia [...]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
If I asked you the most important part of your business, what would you say? PR? Marketing? Perhaps advertising or sales? Now what if I said they’re all irrelevant? What if I said you don’t need sales to be successful? You’d probably say (fairly sarcastically), “Why not just hand my business over to my competitors [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Is your organization or corporation lagging behind in adoption of new collaboration and productivity tools? You’re in good company apparently – the Microsoft and Accenture ‘Oil and Gas Collaboration Survey 2009,’ conducted by PennEnergy in partnership with the Oil & Gas Journal Research Center, found that although many execs in this industry feel that social [...]
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Feeling inspired by a little blog consulting I received from Andy Wibbels (more on that in a bit), I decided to try to see if I could get Google Friend Connect working on my blog.
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
77 percent of business technology decision-makers engage with social media on the job, yet most B2B marketers are not effectively using social technologies to influence the purchasing decisions of their customers, says Forrester Research. In 2007 Forreter released their comsumer Social Technographics Scale . Now they’ve done the same for BtoB buyers.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
There are scores of online marketing techniques that are effective in building relationships that can lead to links to your site, but there is no reason to stop there. Do the major influencers in your space speak at conferences? Then go to it, and introduce yourself. This can include not only bloggers, but other people [...]
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