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 In my research on companies that are transforming themselves by adopting an integrated SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) strategy, I came across a recent blog article by the CIO of Woolworths Limited, Dan Beecham. I will share some excerpts from it here.
Woolworths is an Aus...Apr. 18, 2013 01:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,657 |
 Both Paramount and Universal celebrated their 100th anniversary last year, which is a long time to be in the movie business. Arguably, both have made some good, some great, and some bad movies. But, during this year’s Super Bowl, Paramount showed Universal how to design a ‘fast and fur...Mar. 24, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,414 |
 200 million active users now create over 400 million Tweets each day - something @jack, @ev and @biz only dreamed about back in 2006. Karen Wickre (@kvox), Twitter's editorial director blogs to the entire Twittersphere: "Thank you for making Twitter everything it is today." Mar. 21, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,692 |
 We tend to get carried away in the mood of the moment. As enterprise social networks started to pick up, weren’t we a little too quick to grab our shovels, prepare tearful eulogies post the “death of intranets” in the manner of “intranets were great BUT…..”, and start to drag the...Feb. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,375 |
 "Everyone cares about health in a deeply personal way," blogged former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday as he alerted the world to the existence of his new website, PictureofHealth.com.Dec. 12, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,562 |
 If you flat-out asked your resident nerd what gifts they are hoping for as the holidays get into full swing, you might get a response like, “You mean besides for an uncut Blu-ray version of the original Star Wars Trilogy? Hmm, let me think…” But even if the family Jedi is less than hel...Dec. 2, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 5,621 |
 BMC Software this week launched MyIT, an enterprise IT help desk solution that empowers employees to take more personal control over their IT services and to get the right type of help they need -- anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Frustration with company IT departments is a widely...Nov. 4, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,912 |
 Many firms still dismiss the importance of social networking and some of them even ban employees from using these services while in the workplace. They think that “social” starts and ends with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other networks that might be best described as informal, consu...Oct. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,038 |
 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out of his foxhole Tuesday and made
his first public appearance since his social network’s catastrophic IPO in
May at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
He called the IPO’s aftermath – which has seen its price crater by half –
“d...Sep. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,808 |
 Managing multiple accounts is becoming more important on the Web every day and Google has decided to make it easier for its Gmail users. TNW staffers saw this page flash up, which lets you log in with one of your accounts, or add others. I think I just said “YAY!” really loudly and wok...Sep. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,172 |
 There is something easy about emails. Emails give you time; time to confer, time to double-check, time to weigh up the pros and cons – time to respond. While fewer and fewer of us are picking up the phone to contact customer services, an increasing number are using public social media ...Aug. 21, 2012 04:55 PM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 With the growing trends in mobilization and virtualization, the implementation of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies is increasingly popular among businesses around the globe. In a time when the majority of employees own a smartphone, laptop, or tablet, it makes sense that they shou...Aug. 11, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,410 |
 Social check-in king Foursquare has finally given in to the temptation of paid advertising, now allowing merchants to incorporate promotions into their check-in pages through Promoted Updates. The new pilot program is essentially the paid version of Foursquare’s Local Updates, wh...Jul. 31, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
 I don’t know what you thought about the opening ceremony of the “Games Of The 30th Olympiad Of The Modern Era,” but I watched it from seat 5D on JetBlue Flt 676 from LAX to JFK and, for me, it lacked some of the grandeur I was expecting. Not to worry. Once they passed...Jul. 30, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,542 |
 Social media recently reached a major tipping point – not in its number of users, but in the way consumers use social media. The fundamental difference in consumption between social media and mainstream media can now be summed up in one word: “active.” Until now, all media outlets have...Jul. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,935 |
 Facebook spent a record amount on lobbying expenses — dropping close to $1 million — during the second quarter of 2012 in yet another sign of the social network’s growing focus on Beltway politics. Meanwhile, Google maintained its lobbying march in Washington, having spent $9 million i...Jul. 26, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,552 |
 Exploring the uncharted territory of user behavior data in web "walled-gardens."
The uncharted territory of user behavior data based on what users do in such web walled gardens as Facebook was the focus of a "tweet jam" last week organized by The Open Group.
Some of the many notable ...Jul. 20, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,885 |
 I’ve gotten in a lot of arguments lately about one of the latest “hot topics” in the end-user side of technology – privacy. With some of the biggest names in Social Media doing a really bad job of it (and I’m not even just talking about leaked passwords), it’s something that’s throwing...Jul. 13, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,090 |
 Facebook is launching a new type of mobile advertising that targets consumers based on the apps they use, pushing the limits of how companies track what people do on their phones. The social network is tracking the apps that people use through its popular Facebook Connect feature, whic...Jul. 11, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,428 |
 A lot of our web design clients ask about ongoing WordPress maintenance in the proposal stage of our project. They’ve heard WordPress is easy to use and they want to make sure it will be just as easy to maintain. They also what to make sure their website will be safe, secure, and fre...Jul. 6, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,677 |
 When application issues land on the front page of the news you know it’s no longer just an IT problem. Application performance and availability is a key element of your organization’s brand, especially if a substantial percentage or the entire business is done online. Jul. 6, 2012 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,872 |
 Time is an asset we cannot get back and buyers know this. The quality and speed in which providers can move buyers from newbie to informed status on a topic, the more value the buyer attaches to that provider. If providers want to inspire today’s time-crushed buyer, making it easy fo...Jul. 4, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,418 |
 LinkedIn announced via a blog post on Friday that Twitter would no longer be partnering with the business-networking site to sync updates from one site to the other. This ends a partnership that began in 2009. Jul. 2, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,248 |
 In my last post I clarified that a personal network is what is being discussed in my blogs. However, there are many similarities between a functioning of a human network and a computer network. In this post we’ll discuss how to build your own strategic network. Jun. 25, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,440 |
 Just a few weeks ago, on May 30th, CNN published an Opinion article by Andrew Keen entitled “Facebook Threatens to ‘Zuck Up’ the Human Race.” The title of this article was a quote from his article. It was so thought-provoking that I felt that I had to explore some of the issues he bro...Jun. 25, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,508 |
 "It’s imperative that we remain available around the world, and today we stumbled. For that we offer our most sincere apologies" wrote Twitter’s VP of Engineering, Mazen Rawashdeh, on the official Twitter blog as the microblogging giant strove to explain today's "cascading bug" and its...Jun. 21, 2012 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,264 |
 In 2011 a team of AT&T information technology, human resources and real estate professionals came together to create Workplace 2020, a blueprint to transform the company’s work environment. Here, in the first of three posts on Workplace 2020, guest AT&T contributor Chris Mach discusses...Jun. 20, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,664 |
 Facebook’s high-profile CTO Bret Taylor is leaving the Silicon Valley social networking giant later this summer, with future plans to work on an as-yet-to-be-determined start-up. The move is likely to be of concern to some over the newly public company’s ability to hold onto entreprene...Jun. 18, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,265 |
 You get a vote on whether to accept Facebook’s revised policies, thanks to the efforts of a European activist. The policy states: “We will give you seven (7) days to provide us with comments on the change. Jun. 4, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 988 |
 So Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, experienced a major outage for almost 2 hours yesterday. OMG! The social networking behemoth was unavailable for users in many countries around the world; with North American users coming off the worst with the longest outage totali...Jun. 1, 2012 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 1,313 |
 The world changed. A boy was born in White Plains, New York, in 1984 and 28 years later he would float his social networking company on the stock exchange at a point at which most people in the English-speaking world had at least heard of Facebook – if they were not in fact a personal ...May. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,417 |
| I remember the hype going into the Facebook IPO and how people were literally drooling over what was to be the seminal event to reinvigorate our financial markets, create wealth for thousands and cement Facebook as the success story of this generation. Well two out of three ain’t... May. 23, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,358 |
 Overuse tends to a suck a phrase of meaning, and the same may be said of “collaboration”. As an executive, you’ve probably been inundated with articles on “collaboration software” and its business possibilities. But it seems to mean different things at different times. Sometimes it mea...May. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,162 |
 I have been thinking a great deal about what the Facebook IPO means. While reading many posts up at Hacker News about whether we are in a bubble, lamenting Zynga, or skewering Groupon, I am left wondering what will really become of Facebook. May. 10, 2012 07:05 AM EDT Reads: 2,770 |
 It seems I can’t have any discussions with entrepreneurs without the topic of Instagram coming up. They all think that now is their time to strike the iron since the valuations are going to the stratosphere. I want to be very specific and clear on this point. Facebook bough...May. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,216 |
 Mega-sites like Twitter and popular browsers are all moving to support SPDY – but there’s one small glitch in the game plan… |
 At DevCon5 in Santa Clara Peter Lubbers, founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group, gave a keynote, titled The HTML5 Connectivity Revolution. For his presentation Peter used a WebSocket enabled presentation tool built by Kaazing, called Presso. Presso serves … May. 7, 2012 12:35 PM EDT Reads: 3,424 |
 In my last column, I discussed how Always-On can now be seen for what it is: a potential biological addiction. In a world where we are never far away from an electronic, online screen, we increasingly feel an inner urge to check our emails, social media pages and IM in every circumsta...May. 7, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,088 |
 It's been four years since our last economic bubble and eleven since our last technology bubble, so it's possible that another one is coming soon. Or not. Your guess is as good as mine. I suppose I could pontificate about why one is coming (hint:May. 7, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,796 |
 I am on Facebook, but not an active user at all. Also I am reluctant to share too much personal stuff with friends. Then there are long-lost friends and family members popping up with Facebook requests to connect. I do … May. 7, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,308 |
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