Posts Tagged ‘social business’

I just caught a great session here at SharePoint Conference 2012 where the good folks at Kroger (a large retail grocer in the central/eastern US) laid out what was basically a case study of how deploying Yammer has energized and enabled their workforce. What interested me about this session was the uniqueness of it– prior […]

I came to this year’s SharePoint Conference with one goal in mind: I wanted to learn everything I could about Microsoft’s enterprise roadmap for Yammer.  Well, as of this writing the conference is halfway over and if anything, it looks I’m probably going to get about halfway to that goal. I’m not going to recap […]

Matt Feczko and Ben Wilde focused on real life scenario on how social will work.  They include: Asking and answering questions Managing multiple projects Working with documents Finding our more about people The whole concept is that social should make life easier. It should improve employee engagement, team collaboration, and business agility.  However, all of […]

Mark Kashman (@mkashman) presented on mobile and SharePoint. Like everyone else, Microsoft sees the mobile revolution with 1 billion devices, 82% of the online population using social and 50% being on the road to the cloud. When they think of SharePoint mobile they think of it in three different ways. That includes mobile browser, native apps, and […]

Enterprise social networks have been a welcomed innovation that gives companies the ability to improve how they engage with their employees, customers, and partners. When these networks are truly integrated within business applications, where people actually do their work, this is simply more than a new feature. It represents a fundamental shift from a record centric […]

As expected, Microsoft had a lot to highlight in their two hour key note.   Rich Wood graciously let me capture the highlights of the entire session while he will hit on a few topics to give them justice.  But first, the stats: 10,000 attendees From 85 countries 200 sponsors and exhibitors It started out […]

It won’t surprise anyone that I’m a longtime fan of analyst services like those of Gartner and Forrester. They’ve had a very positive impact on my career in consulting.  In fact, one of my formative career experiences was developing a web portal content architecture used by Giga Information Group, the technology advisory founded by Gideon […]

IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

The SharePoint Conference kicks off on Sunday November 11th and the Perficient team will be there in force. From demo’s showing what can be accomplished with SharePoint 2013, our Rockstar giveaway where someone will win a Home Theater System to interactive sessions with community members, booth 904 will be a hub of activity. From the […]

In the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing social intranets, SharePoint social business concepts and solutions, and web content management in SharePoint 2013. Given the interest in these topics, I thought I’d point our more SharePoint-admin-inclined readers to some similar content elsewhere that provides a fairly concise summary […]

I was reading an article on CMSWire about HootSuite and Compendium teaming up to improve social marketing.  If you are not aware of either HootSuite or Compendium, briefly, HootSuite provides tools to manage your messaging on social networks and Compendium helps create content. What struck me in the article is an infographic provided by Compendium […]