January 2011
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Accuracy Checklist for Social Media →
Before tweeting: How do I know this information? Is this information independently confirmed? Should it be first? Do I know the location of the news event? Check a map. Will this require follow-up tweets to better explain? Do I know this story well enough to follow-up? When tweeting: Are proper names spelled correctly? Does the link go to the right place? Is it shortened properly? Are any...
Jan 31st
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Where Online Collaboration Fails: 3 Lessons →
“For all of the talk about “web 2.0″, “enterprise 2.0,” the new “collaborative, distributed workforce,” and don’t get me started on “cloud 2.0,” collaborating online is basically full of excessive, unending, ragequit pain. This is a blog about what collaboration software needs to learn from MMORPGs and LDRs (long distance relationships.)” — Where Online Collaboration Fails: 3 Lessons from...
Jan 31st
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How companies can use social media for better... →
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com Publicly-traded companies, especially those with little or no analyst following, can benefit from enhanced shareholder engagement that can result from thoughtful application of some social media tools. More and more, sophisticated investors are already using social media in their daily lives. They’re coming to expect interactive communications and engagement from the...
Jan 31st
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Watch Lotusphere 2011 Live now and catch replays on the IBM Software channel.
Jan 31st
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“Good to hear that: US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for...”
– Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When? | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via Instapaper)
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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How Videos Go Viral  →
Source: Mashable
Jan 27th
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IBM Centennial Film: They Were There - People who changed the way the world works What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. “They Were There” is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Enterprise 2.0: at an Inflection Point
Source: Express Computer (India) Srinivas Kandikonda Venu Madhav Gooty With the increasing adoption of Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, etc. in everyone’s social lives, Web 2.0 tools have become an extremely critical component of the Web today. Social networking usage has increased tremendously and it is becoming a key part of an individual’s personal life. As this continues, this increasing group of...
Jan 24th
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10 Smarter Enterprise Technologies That Will Have...
Source: Smarter Technology The smartest place to be for a company, customer or entrepreneur is at the intersection of business needs and new technologies. Here are 10 projects I’ve been watching that I contend will have a big business impact this year. Starbucks: No, not its new 30-ounce drinks, but its new payment system. Using a smartphone and scanner to pay for your Starbucks’...
Jan 24th
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IBM Centennial Film: 100 X 100 - A century of achievements that have changed the world The film features one hundred people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. The film chronology flows from the oldest person to the youngest, offering a whirlwind history of the company and culminating with its prospects for the future. smarterplanet:
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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How can students make their cities smarter? -... →
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Social Media and Revolution: Clay Shirky on Brian...
Clay Shirky, internet guru, professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and author ofCognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, discusses the how social media tools are affecting political power structures, especially in the case of the turmoil in Tunisia. → Read More and Join the Conversation at It’s A Free Country
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Lotusphere Coming into View -- Social Business...
Social networking has become a significant factor in the business world. Companies are lining up to tell their “Fastest gun in the West” success stories on a multitude of networking sites. The IT industry can’t do enough to help these stories be heard. IBM’s Lotus division, for one, is doing all it can to promote “social business.” With Lotusphere coming up the...
Jan 17th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Intuit tries open innovation via crowdsourcing  →
emergentfutures: Intuit has announced a new crowd sourcing initiative it calls “Intuit Collaboratory.” The initial emphasis of the collaboratory is a crowdsourcing initiative with a $10k maximum prize. The two initial challenges focus on paperless accounting records and receipts.
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Why social networks are sucking up more of your... →
infoneer-pulse: Think Facebook sucks up your time? Well, it’s only going to get worse, according to a study that suggests users become more active in online social networks the bigger they become. Researchers at City University of Hong Kong considered behaviour in two online networks: the Chinese blogging site Sina and a peer-to-peer file-sharing system called Tianwang. By comparing the growth...
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Nielsen: Young People Across The Globe Love Their...
A new Nielsen report finds that young people around the world are the biggest adopters of mobile technology, though how they do so tends to vary by both location and gender. According to the report, China is the biggest spot for the mobile Internet, with 73 percent of Chinese youths age 15 to 24 citing mobile Internet usage as among the things they used their cell phones for in the past month....
Jan 11th
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IBM’s Social Business Forum, Jan 31.
I am so excited about IBM’s Social Business Industries Symposium. It is January 31st and February 1st in Orlando Florida. It will be focused on how organizations are investing in social strategies to drivegreater profits and revenues. We will focus on a roadmap of entry points to get started in your transformation. The topics will help C level executives focus in on: 1. Leveraging social for...
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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The Social Organization - IBM - The Business Value of Social Software CIOpresentations from Bilal Jaffery.
Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Social Superheroes: The Greatest Ever Social... →
socialsuperheroes: I’m a big fan of lists, so you can imagine how thrilling the end of each year is for me- tons of compilations of easy access information rounding up the best, worst, funniest, etc, of the past year, decade, century, or more. Soooooo, here I decided to do the ultimate list compilation. Social Entrepreneur-ing The Ultimate List of Top Social Enterprise Twitter Users; It’s...
Jan 5th
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“Crucial point here: “The rise of African consumers. The continent of Africa has...”
– Marian Salzman: Tapping Consumer Minitrends: Predictions for 2011 (via Instapaper)
Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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