Posts Tagged ‘social business’

Online marketing is a challenge.  When you think about having a conversation with your customer or potential customer, where you communicate can have a dramatic impact on whether your message gets through. Many people can identify Facebook and Twitter as two common social media outlets. The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and JESS3, shown here, does a […]

Edit: Part 2 (setup) : Part 3 (Mahout) The internet is becoming increasingly personalized.  It has transitioned from indexing massive wells of information to delivering personalized information, or recommendations based on complex searches.  Evidence of this is seen in Google’s Knowledge graph, Amazon, the Bing engine, Facebook friends and twitter recommending people you may be interesting in […]

Here in the U.S. we take privacy seriously and often go to great lengths to avoid asking customers for personal information. It appears that global consumers are more open to sharing personal information about themselves than maybe what everyone assumes. Sandy Carter recently posted on her blog Social Media to Social Business about an interesting study  IBM recently […]

I read a blog post written by Sam Wright titled “Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue”. The article touches upon the importance of content and the need for content to be included in the overall design process. Much of the post talks about the importance of writing and copy. What really caught […]

Many people have been asking me lately, “So, what is new in the new version of CRM?” Microsoft recently released an overview of the new items for CRM 2013. This will be release for both on-premises and online in October 2013. Very exciting changes coming including four key themes of: Redesigned user experience Process agility CRM on […]

I just posted a short article on the leaders in Social Networking by Gartner over on my Portal blog.  Microsoft made the leadership quadrant because of it’s breadth of functionality, Yammer’s ease of use, a great vision, and a tremendous user base that shows no signs of slowing growth.   One of the strengths noted is […]

Gartner just released their Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant.  (warning login and $$ required to gain access.)  Alternatively, Jive also offers it with your company information.  I don’t want to just copy what Gartner has to say so let me just focus on the use cases for Social Software and the leader quadrant. […]

The Marshfield Clinic team is in the winners circle once again!  In April,  Marshfield Clinic’s website was named Site of the Month for March by TopSharePoint.com and now the Perficient & Marshfield teams have been recognized by the Web Marketing Association for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development! The Web Marketing Association‘s annual WebAward competition has […]

Huge congrats to Perficient client Disney Consumer Products on their 2013 Web Award for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development for Best Intranet Website.  The Web Marketing Association‘s annual WebAward competition has been setting the standard of excellence for website development since 1997. Independent expert judges from around the world review sites in 96 industries. The […]

Short but fun video about a client of ours.  I have to admit that Cars.com continues to make the car buying experience better. We recently bought a car and the best place to find enough valid information to figure out where to go and buy a used car is cars.com.   Their use of custom […]

Organizations are beginning to realize the true cost of losses in productivity and efficiency due to gaps in collaboration and communication. As a result, portals, collaboration tools and social business enablers are taking center stage in enterprise technology. Intranets are connecting employees, giving them easy access to documents and information, and enabling them to collaborate […]

So what do all of these technology solutions have to do with the US Open? Behind the scenes, IBM has helped run the show since 1990. A recent online article shows how IBM is using these tools to flow information far beyond match scores. Handheld devices used courtside feed multiple data points such as ball […]