The 5 Best Social Business Articles From Last Week
I want to highlight a few of last week’s articles that I find particularly engaging and thought provoking. An often overlooked aspect of social business is the immense amount of data that can be derived from social interactions. This data will not only improve our own productivity, but increase the effectiveness of tomorrow’s corporations. Related [...]
Can OpenSocial Be Resurrected In The Enterprise?
For most of the pundits out there in valley, OpenSocial is dead and meaningless. However, at Lotusphere 2012 last month, IBM was highlighting how they have used OpenSocial in their image makeover towards Social Business. They have relied on OpenSocial for activity streams and gadgets. When I was speaking to Suzanne Livingston from IBM if [...]
IBM’s Social Agenda
Last week IBM hosted the annual Lotusphere event at Orlando. Last year, they made a strategic shift and started pushing heavily on the idea of Social Business and followed it up this year by not only brining last year’s announcements into fruition but also moved out of the Lotus brand to remove any legacy tag [...]
Tibbr Leaps Forward With GEO Feature And HTML5
Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage), Tibco’s social tool competing with the likes of Chatter, released a new version, Tibbr 3.5 with two new features which makes the product pretty hot in the market. In fact, I have been pretty impressed with Tibbr by the time it came into the market. Unlike many companies who were totally clueless [...]
5 Social Business Truths
Meritocracy trumps hierarchy: Companies don’t get a “pass” on Wall Street or the London Exchange becauswe they’re been around way before new companies. Political candidates aren’t immune from beingf being upended when they don’t perform. Why should work be any different? Companies that focus on the meritocracy are focused on growth. Those that pay too much attention [...]
The evangalyst: preaching to the converted
There are definite signs of evolution in social media. Where I saw some issues around mainstream adoption over a year ago, I can now rest assured. Dozens of “priests and monks” have arisen all over the world to further aid the conversion towards social; Social Business now is the way to go and according to [...]
Why Every Company Needs to be More Like IBM and Less Like Apple
I was thirteen years old when I first saw it on TV. An army of blue-gray drones march in lockstep through a long tunnel into an auditorium filled with more drones dressed in futuristic, grey drab. All eyes are transfixed on a big-blue image of a man speaking from a theatre-sized screen, extolling the virtues [...]
Afraid of socmediots? Email works just as well.
A giant reputation drama has been unfolding in the past days: Ocean Marketing’s Paul Cristoforo has made a complete ass of himself and his company. A nice compilation is provided by Doug Collins on his blog, and it’s aptly called How to Commit Career Suicide The (apparently almost) entire email thread can be found on [...]
It’s All About Collaboration
Regardless of how you want to spin “social business,” “social enterprise,” “social collaboration,” “enterprise collaboration,” or any other new term that comes along, it always comes down to collaboration. At the end of the day that’s really what this is about, it’s not about being social it’s about being collaborative and applying collaborative technologies, strategies, [...]
If Your Company is Still Blocking the Move to Social, Then Join Electronic Arts in Battle
The world’s largest gaming company is going through a remarkable transformation into a Social Business. Electronic Arts understands that today’s technologies, unlike those of the past decade, are no longer limited to the individual. They impact everyone. Impact that’s revolutionizing … Continue reading →
How to Improve Social Business Adoption as Told by IBM (Part 1)
I typically like to provide context around discussions with industry thought leaders and Executives of the Fortune 500. Yet some discussions should simply be left untouched and published as-is. It’s not a short article, but the insights around IBM’s journey to becoming a Social Business is remarkable and a must read for those that are [...]
Why Email Can’t and Won’t Die
When you think about it there are really only two things that are unique to every individual, their email and their phone number. This is important when we talk about emergent collaboration especially when the topic of moving people away from email comes up. I know that there are many people who believe in the [...]
Employees must Occupy the Board Room and Demand to be Social
They were not incompetent or anything; they had simply broken more pumps in the last year than any previous year the engineers could remember. Not the inexpensive kind, but the large 200 horsepower, $22,000 pumps used in geothermal power plants; each blew up in a succession of preventable blunders. But then it got worse. They [...]
The Secret to Virgin America’s Social Business Success (infographic comparison)
Want to know what it might feel like if an airline actually treated its customers like friends? Not a superficial, phony performance marked by fake smiles and fake actors (think the aviation version of the Truman Show). But an airline that runs its business by listening, supporting and doing what’s best for its customers. Instead, [...]
This CEO Isn’t Afraid to Take on Jive Software or Salesforce.com
Yammer thrives. The herd mentality around the enterprise activity stream is driving its competitors to emulate their every move. Jive’s done it. So has Salesforce.com, SocialText, Newsgator, Moxie Software and IBM Connections. From the Fortune 500 to the Fortuneless company of one, the activity stream is supplanting email for many forms of business communication. What’s [...]
