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Circular [Social Business] Arguments
With respect to why “Social Business” is a natural fit for the world of work, I said on Twitter: @sameerpatel: Often heard #socbiz argument: “humans are social by nature”. Then why is it that #socbiz s/w adoption has been so hard historically? Contradicting this is another popular statement about Social Business: “Its not about the technology, its about [...]
Social Business is a Snap
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 [...]
It’s Time To Consolidate Social Business Platforms
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 [...]
New Data on Social Business: Communities Are the #1 Initiative in 2013
At IDC we do a social business survey a couple of times a year and I now have fresh and just out of the field data to share. It’s proven very interesting and telling to trend the survey results over…
News Analysis: Adobe Behances The Creative Class With $150M Community Acquisition
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 [...]
Social media’s rocky road in business
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 — [...]
That Sound You’re Not Hearing in Your Business Could Be Fatal.
“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 [...]
Social business? Déjà’ vu all over again
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 [...]
Is Social Business Dead?
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?
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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