Posts Tagged ‘social business’

Congratulations to Microsoft for winning CRN‘s Annual Report Card (ARC) Trophy for Collaboration Software, the first time that this category has been included.  From CRN’s post by Rick Whiting “Almost every enterprise we work with has SharePoint someplace,” said Matt Morse, director of the SharePoint practice at Perficient, a St. Louis-based solution provider that’s a […]

Social and Marketing Are Made for Each Other What exactly goes on at the intersection between marketing and social? And why has it become so important to B2B companies? The answer has to do with capturing and using valuable social data to a gain competitive advantage. Let’s set the stage first. Some of you may […]

IBM’s IOD conference has become one of those annual traditions that marks a milestone in the year for our IBM partnership. Maybe it’s because of the time of year or just the amount of effort that goes into the conference by both Perficient and IBM, but each year we’re reminded introspectively of just how much […]

With the enormous growth in social media as a marketing channel, many companies have rushed to embrace social technologies, sometimes without taking the time to think strategically. They establish and promote their presence on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and other social channels, and then receive back a flood of data in terms of likes, mentions, […]

Author: Amy Smith, Senior Project Manager, Perficient SharePoint Fest Chicago, held September 25-27, included sessions by industry experts and implementation leaders from the user community.  One of the user sessions was entitled, “Going Social – Nalco’s Journey”.  Daniel Flynn gave an excellent presentation on the process Nalco went through to define, plan and implement their […]

Unfortunately, the NFL won’t give my Green Bay Packers back the win that was stolen from them by the replacement refs earlier this week, but I’m going to do my small part to balance out the karma of that.  I have something to give to you, loyal readers.  Yes, it’s a present– my list of five things you […]

Whenever I’m doing a social strategy workshop with one of my clients, I like to stress a simple point when it comes to behavior change: Positive reinforcement gets results.  This is something I learned years ago when studying to become a teacher.  Although I never ran a classroom for long, I suppose you can say this […]

LinkedIn has recently made a number of changes to make the LinkedIn experience more social and to drive more engagement.  The changes include Facebook like alerts for comments and likes on a specific activity. Comments and activity beyond your 1st level LinkedIn connections can now occur. Essentially LinkedIn has taken Facebook like interaction,  added it […]

To really understand the value of social intranets today, you have to understand where they came from.  Today we’re going to spend a little time taking a look back at where intranets have been and where they’re going, because having that context can be a real boon when you’re staring at an intranet redesign project. […]

            Thursday, October 18, 2012 – 1:00 – 2:00PM CT REGISTER Join Perficient and Premier Healthcare and hear how Premier is integrating business processes with social and analytical tools from IBM to create a competitive advantage and pioneer a better way of providing care. Learn how to leverage IBM Social […]

Last week, we hosted a webinar around social computing, “Understanding SharePoint 2013 and the Social Landscape.” Speaker and SharePoint Rockstar Rich Wood first laid the groundwork by recapping Microsoft and social over the past few years, followed with a discussion on the current state of social business and how out-of-the-box SharePoint 2013 delivers from a […]

(This post is Part 2 in a two-part series.  For Part 1, click here.) In our previous episode, we quickly reviewed the concept of data analytics as applied to social computing software—how it enables both admins and the software companies themselves to prescriptively target feature configurations or updates to user demographics that will benefit from them. […]