August 2011
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Building Crowds of Humans into Software -... →
By using crowdsourcing for difficult tasks such as understanding speech or images, the software could enable smarter apps.
Enabling software to punt its toughest tasks to humans should result in smarter mobile apps and other programs, say the founders of the newly launched company MobileWorks. The startup makes it possible for programmers to build human intelligence into their software using...
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“Humanizing brands is a popular topic, but people mean different things when they...”
– 3 Ways Your Brand Can Be More Human | CMO.com
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How companies are adapting - on their own - to... →
Adjusting and adapting to an inevitably warmer world, more far-sighted private companies are moving forward even in the absence of strong government leadership globally and nationally. Understanding, anticipating and managing their risks are becoming those companies’ new, and challenging, reality.
Source: Yale Climate Media Forum
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Stowe Boyd: The Architecture Of Cooperation →
The world of business is being re-contoured by the new realities, like ubiquitous connectivity, genius phones, Air/iPad, and the rethinking of ‘offices’.
Alison Arieff, Rethinking the Office Workspace, Part Two
Herman Miller is still selling cubicles, to be sure, but can also read the…
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The Big Failure of Enterprise 2.0 Social Business... →
This isn’t a “shock & awe” title to merely draw you in. This also isn’t a blanket claim from an “expert” who has never been in the trenches that “social business is dead”. Enterprise 2.0 (aka social business) is not dead. Significant progress continues to be made. More and more enterprises have social business strategies and efforts for both marketing & internal collaboration....
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Lovely Day Blog: Taking Back the Term "Social" →
That means that “social innovation” is not necessarily just the provision of water systems to local farmers, but models like Kickstarter and micro-consignment that allow people to create value through social means. Unlocking the creative and innovative potential of people – through anything from the volunteer corps at giant companies like IBM to the facilitation of craft and commerce through...
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The Path to Co-Creating a Social Business: The... →
The figures vary but in the last several years a major change has begun in organizations around the world. Sometimes the efforts are small and unsanctioned, sometimes they are big and bold, but increasingly businesses are employing social media strategically to engage deeply with both their workers and customers. We see this all the time in the large firms represented in our Social Business...
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Enterprise Social Collaboration: Building A... →
Where other enterprise social networks start in sales and marketing, Saba Software starts with people-centric functions.
Social networking is about people, and Saba Software figures it ought to have the inside track on enterprise social networking, because Saba knows people. Or, more specifically, it knows employees—particularly their professional expertise and training needs.
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WatchSmart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media
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SXSW 2012 - The connected company: an inventory of... →
I am happy to say that the SxSWi panel that Dave Gray asked me to join is available for your reveiw (and vote!) on the SxSW PanelPicker here.
I think the panel is phenomenal. I’ve known Dave only a few years, but he is a big picture thinker, now at Dachis but the founder of XPLANE, the visual…
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[Stowe: This is right in the wheelhouse of IBM’s efforts around Social...
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IBM Teams with Shell Oil for E-Learning System |... →
IBM helps Shell create its Global Terminal Automation System, a new e-learning tool.
IBM has announced a partnership with Shell that has transformed the way the oil and gas company trains employees on its new automated system for loading fuel onto trucks, barges, trains and pipelines.
IBM is working with Shell to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of training by helping 1,000 employees in...
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WatchCar dealers turn toward social media - USATODAY.com
Just a few years ago, John Pohlig might have hung up balloons and perhaps an inflatable gorilla outside this Honda dealership here to attract shoppers.
Instead he’s posting notes on Facebook and other social media sites. The effort is aimed at getting people to comment on what kind of car they’re likely to drive on a vacation —...
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Pioneering Genetic Privacy →
In October 2005, IBM became the first major corporation in the world to establish a genetics privacy policy that prohibits current or future employees’ genetic information from being used in…
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“Do you still need television to reach the masses? Most marketers don’t think so.”
– Agree to Disagree: TV vs Digital for reaching a large audience | Econsultancy (via mediafuturist)
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Social Business | An Overview from IBM
It’s no longer a BtoB or BtoC relationship. It’s PtoP.
People to people isn’t about file sharing. It means that every department, from HR to marketing to product development to customer service, uses social media the way it uses any other tool and channel to do its job. A company that uses social networking tools fluently to communicate with people inside and outside the company acts...
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“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a...”
– Sir Ken Robinson on the principles of creative leadership, an excerpt from his must-read book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, which builds on his previous work in the role of creativity in education. (via curiositycounts)
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Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile... →
The breathless descriptions of volumes by the mainstream tech/vc press always makes me smile - reminds me of Dr. Evil’s “one MILLION dollars” line… Sure Square is growing quickly which is interesting but $4mn a day isn’t actually very much in the payments world.
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“Many people still don’t get it… they don’t get the fact that...”
– Social Media Marketing and Word-of-Mouth Marketing Are Now the Same | Social Media Today
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