February 2012
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Top 25 iPhone and iPad apps for business →
cio-online:
Apple’s iPhone and iPad may have been built for consumers, but the folks in Cupertino correctly guessed that what’s good for consumers is good for businesses. The only stumbling block may be the growing volume of apps available: more 140,000 natively for the iPad and over 500,000 that work on the iPhone and iPad. Here are 25 go-to iOS apps for business users, from travel planning to...
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“Part of Customer Development is understanding which customers make sense for...”
– A Great Way to Kill Your Startup: Listen to All Your Customers - Steve Blank - Business - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
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“Skype has the potential to be the dark horse in the social network platform...”
– Tom Foremski, Is Skype A Social Network?
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One way (out of 10) to become a truly social... →
Invest in culture rather than governance. A system of governance via rules and policies only tells employees what they can and cannot do; think of a restrictive social media policy that dictates what employees can and cannot type or tweet. A more human operating system puts humanity, rather than rules, at its core and trusts employees to act, inspired by values, mission and purpose, as opposed to...
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How Social Business Leaders Lead: Project... →
I’ve found Management by Objectives (MBO) to be much more problematic. MBO means ‘I don’t really care about the overall company; I just care about my objectives [for example,] I need to bring a thousand leads. What sales does with the leads, it’s their business; I don’t care.’ … you don’t care about the company objectives. I think that model is totally over. So, then you need team...
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Source the crowd →
Ludvik Partners is a marketing company that utilizes crowdsourcing principles. It curates projects and then pairs skill sets with the project’s desired goals and objectives. These skill sets come from a diverse member network of professionals known as The Crowd.
(via Ramon Nuez)
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Four Ways Enterprise Social Networks Drive Value →
Despite their promise and potential, enterprise social networks (ESNs) have only received moderate traction. The problem is that most deployments are treated as technology deployments with a focus on adoption and usage. A different way to think about this is that enterprise social networks represent a new way to communicate and form relationships — and because of that, can bridge gaps.
Encourage...
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“When I Say Business, You Say Social”
– Tweet Jam Recap: Social Business is as Social Business Does #socbizchat
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The 10 Best Crowdsourcing Tools and Technologies →
According to Dr. Peter Diamandis Chairman and CEO of the X Prize they are:
1. X PRIZE Foundation (www.xprize.org): The X PRIZE focuses on designing and running incentive competitions in the $1M – $30M arena focused on solving grand challenges.
2. CoFundos (cofundos.org): cheap and really good platform for the development of open-source software.
3. Genius Rocket (geniusrocket.com): solid...
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“Every customer database is now obsolete.”
– Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaking about analytics in Facebook: The Database Of Wealth And Power. (via The Brainyard)
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A company where employees are co-CEOs
Social business requires delivering the strategic message to employees so they can make decisions the way a CEO does. Yaacov Cohen, co-founder and CEO of the Israeli software company Harmon.ie tells employees, “you’re going to be doing support, but you are my Co-CEO for Support, which means, ‘I don’t think I’m smarter than you are. I think what you are doing is no less important than what I...
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Real-life introvert, Internet extrovert
“I am not a ‘people person’ in the typical sense, meaning that I’d rather communicate with people online than spend a lot of time visiting them or going out to places in groups. I much prefer using e-mail to using the telephone. In short, I am a real-life introvert yet an Internet extrovert.” Revolution 2.0
— Wael Ghonim, the Google executive and admin of the...
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“The social supply chain world is more alive than you might think… Sure, we...”
– Spend Matters: Are We Ready for Social Supply Chains? (Part 1)
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Frog Social Media Solutions: 10 Reasons Pinterest... →
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Via: Posted by Anthony Wing Kosner, Contributor Quantum of Content, 2/18/2012 at forbues.com
Pinterest, the almost two-year-old social scrapbooking site, is on a tear. TechCrunch reported on Tuesday that Pintrest reached 11.7 million monthly active users. Whether they…
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Social networking for scientists: Professor... →
By creating a social network for scientists a firm based in Berlin is aiming to do for the academic world what Mark Zuckerberg did for the world in general. About 1.4m researchers have signed up already, and that number is growing by 50,000 a month.
At the moment, most users are in their 20s. Their favourite activity is to ask each other questions about practical research problems, from...
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Why We Use Social Media in Our Personal Lives —... →
A few reasons why social media at work may seem less appealing than at home: 1) Often we’re instructed to use it by someone in authority, rather than invited by friends. 2) Little of what we actually get paid to do (or believe we get paid to do) requires information or input from the vast majority of other people on the network. 3) Participation feels like dropping pearls into a black hole —...
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When your audience says: “No time. No money. No... →
“We’re very busy with clients. We don’t have time for other things.” “How much does it cost? We’re very focused on profitability.”
Towards the end, I made it personal.
I asked people in the branch how they would know about great jobs in other branches. And how would anyone besides their manager know about them and their skills?
There was a pause. A young woman answered, somewhat wistfully,...
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“The traditional “Big 3 networks” (NBC, ABC, and CBS) used to be the only...”
– Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks | TechCrunch
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WatchGreat tips in Adam Lewis’ 50+ slide show on how to listen to customers. See sentiment analysis in Slide 31 —combinining machine filtering with human analysis.
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Cloud service helps furniture maker socialize the... →
Furniture company Vitra, based in Switzerland, looked to business social networking for increased efficiency and collaboration. The most important criteria for choosing an internal social networking platform at Vitra were tight integration into other systems; the ability to easily collaborate and exchange data with external parties; a small footprint; and low maintenance. (Source: The Brainyard)
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Social Media for Social Good →
Randi Zuckerberg, Mark’s sister, is bringing the power of social media to public health. She calls it “a social good broadcast experiment” so that thousands or millions of people can all broadcast in a coordinated manner where there is a global crisis.
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“Open Innovation appears to be powerful and successful. 48% of respondents...”
– -Andrew McAfee
Everything You Need to Know About Social Business and Enterprise 2.0 in Three Short Reports
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“Don Tapscott, keynote speaker and author of Macrowikinomics, views social media...”
– By Krystal D’Costa in “Social Media Week Returns to a City Near You: February 13th – 17th, 2012” (via lemixbynico)
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“Every minute, approximately 600 new blog posts are published and as many as...”
– Rod Smith: Big data, analytics giving way to ‘social economy’ | ZDNet
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The Servant Leader and the Social Enterprise →
idonethis:
Dan Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author on the changing world of work, told us that the most radical change happening in enterprise organization is that “[t]oday, talented people need organizations less than organizations need talented people.” The effect of that is to upend the…
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“I’d say the idea of controlling information flows is becoming an obsolete...”
– Andrew McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking,
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A Love-Hate Relationship
10 things to love about social networking in the enterprise, and 10 things that are leaving businesses cold. (In some cases, they are one and the same.)
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“By the end of this year, there could be more smartphones on the planet than...”
– There Will Be More Smartphones Than Humans on the Planet by Year’s End
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Big data and social analytics
Commenting on one of the interesting things [that happens] when businesses try to install a new social platform within the enterprise, Marie Wallace made an interesting comparison between these ventures and feeding a hungry child. “You’re feeding it for 18 to 24 months before it learns to speak,” Wallace said, “What we’re trying to do is get the child to grow up faster.”
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“Brands should pay close attention to the rapid growth of social media in global...”
– Social media spotlight should shift abroad, says Ogilvy’s John Bell
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“While social media has significantly shaped how we communicate and connect in...”
– Ethan Mcarty in Social Media Week Shines a Light on Social Business
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