Posts Tagged ‘social business’

Perficient has used instant messaging almost since the inception of the company.  In many ways, we live and die by it.  However, instant messaging allows for quick answers from those you know and not from those you don’t know.  It’s a classic issue trying to be solved by social networking tools.  Recently, Yammer has come […]

I recently found a new app called iWildFire on Apple’s AppStore.  iWildFire brings IBM Connections down to your iPad or iPhone as a native application.  The application was released on June 3, 2011 and is already getting good reviews.  Here is a link to the iWildFire page on iTunes.  iWildFire provides access to Connections Home […]

To add a global filters in the Activity Stream Web Part are available to all users of the social networking site, editing the ActivityStream.js file located in the {14}/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/NG/Scripts folder is needed. The ActivityStream.js file created the filter list on page load. The filters call the ActivityFeed.svc web service to retrieve the data from the […]

I’m speaking in a webinar this Thursday.  Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota will be spending most of the time speaking about what they’ve done with Social Business and some best practices.  He’s been a key person and champion out there.  Ted Stanton, social business guru extraordinaire, will also be speaking.  Feel […]

Brian Solis spoke at the IBM Get Social event in Santa Clara, CA.  He’s an analyst at the Altimeter and focuses his research on media, social media, and ongoing impacts to that.   Overall, his presentation was really good.  He takes a pragmatic approach to social business and highlights the difference between just having a facebook […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

This week I was working with one of my clients helping review their mobile strategy and it motivated me to do some additional research. The focus of the meeting was to prioritize business, marketing, and technology goals of mobile commerce. Through this work session some interesting questions came up such as is a mobile web […]

NewsGator Social Sites 2010 take SharePoint social computing and collaboration to a whole new level. Pre-requisites Following is a list of requirements before you begin the Social Sites 2010 installation – You should have a valid installation of SharePoint 2010 Social Sites 2010 is not supported on stand-alone installations of SharePoint 2010. In our case […]

Pre-requisites Following is a list of requirements before you begin the Social Sites 2010 installation – You should have a valid installation of SharePoint 2010 Social Sites 2010 is not supported on stand-alone installations of SharePoint 2010. In our case we had a SharePoint server and a SQL database server in the development farm environment. […]

This post gives a listing of the User Profile properties available Out-of-the-Box in SharePoint 2010 and additional properties added by NewsGator Social Sites 2010 when installed on top of MySites. It can be a handy resource in cases where you do not have access to the Central Admin or the User Profile Service Application. Column […]

I found this while browsing a recent post by Stuart McIntyre on his Collaboration Matters blog.  Deloitte just published a study on measurable business performance improvements with social software.  Like Stuart and this study, I agree that there are some serious business outcomes from social business.  I think that it will change the way we […]