By Esteban Kolsky on March 6, 2013
Yep, you read that right. A snap. Simple. Uncomplicated. Two bits and change. a Drachma of work (well, probably the wrong analogy). And you don’t even need to buy, invest, change, or even do something different. You got all it takes, most of what it needs (you may need some software – but i am [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Change Management, CompuServe, Facebook, Performance indicator, social business, Social CRM, Social Media, Social network |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 6, 2013
Greater Adoption In Social Business Signifies A Move To Consolidate Platforms Constellation’s buy-side clients tend to fit in the market leader or fast follower categories when it comes to organizational personas of disruptive technology adoption. Since 2010, respondents have progressed through the DEEPR framework and the latest results from 2012 indicate that most survey respondents [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 12, 2013
Behance Empowers The Creative Cloud To Make Ideas Happen On December 20th, 2012, Silicon Valley based Adobe Systems announced the $150M USD acquisition of Behance, a digital portfolio and community site for creative professionals. Founded in 2006, the SoHo, New York based company raised 6.5M in May 2012 from Union Square Ventures prior to the [...]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 6, 2013
Those who track the online discourse on enterprise social media are surely aware that the trough of disillusionment is likely at hand. Yet the dreaded industry trough, brought about by the over-heated promises and inflated expectations bandied about from just about every quarter — including thought leaders, journalists, vendors, and yes, even end-users themselves — [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BranchOut, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise resource planning, linkedin, Salesforce Chatter, social business, Social Media |
By Susan Scrupski on February 4, 2013
“Fools,” said I, “You do not know. Silence like a cancer grows.” Simon and Garfunkel If we’ve learned anything over these past six, going on seven years of covering the internal social collaboration sector, it’s that the social web has become a catalyst for intellectual curiosity. Tribes are forming everywhere with the growing popularity of niche sub-groups [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged adoption, Boston Consulting Group, Bruce Henderson, Clay Shirky, collaboration, linkedin, Simon & Garfunkel, social business, social collaboration |
By Brian Sommer on January 31, 2013
IBM is transitioning. It’s got a $1 billion business with a software product called Lotus Notes but it is consciously trying to reposition it and other products around a social business mantra. To illustrate, one of the IBM communications executives pointed out to me that the “Lotusphere” part of the IBM Connect show logo is [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Accenture, ibm, IBM Lotus Notes, Knowledge Management, Lotus Notes, Lotusphere, social business |
By Michael Fauscette on January 30, 2013
Has social for business run its course and now we should just move on, because there’s “nothing to see here”? Have businesses given it a good go and, finding no value, are they abandoning their efforts?
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, Consumerization, CX, Decision making, ESN, expectations, experience, Facebook, internet, mobile, socbiz, Social, social business, Social Media, work |
Going Rogue: Taking a Leap of Faith – in Humanity, the Social Web, and the Brilliance of Marshall Kirkpatrick
By Susan Scrupski on February 7, 2013
So, I’m alone again, naturally.* I have been letting friends know over the past few weeks that I resigned from my incredibly great new position at 7Summits. It was not them; it was me. The more I got into the thick of the work, I realized I am far too independent for a real day [...]
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