Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Out of more than one billion social media profiles worldwide in 2011, 50% of people follow brands on social media websites and 36% of social users post brand-related content. Of all the posts around brands, 95% of those posts go unanswered. For this reason, it’s important to know what your customers are saying about your […]

Tech Crunch has an interesting article about all the automation going on in the social media space.  If you want a good sign that companies are starting to realize that they no longer control the conversation about their brand and feel overwhelmed with how to manage so many conversations, this article will point that out.  […]

I was recently invited to guest blog on Microsoft’s partner site, DigitalWPC.com. I blogged on a topic I’m passionate about – Social Business Solution. You can read an excerpt from the post below. The full post is here. According to Knowledge Networks, 60% of people use social media to discover new brands or products, 46% […]

I recently caught up with Mike Gannotti in Philadelphia. We talked about his new role in the Philadelphia MTC, SharePoint, Social Media, Dogfooding (of course!) Tahoe (Mike’s been around SharePoint for a while), Social Business, Women in SharePoint & more. I learned that Mike is the Seventh most followed Microsoft entity on Twitter! You can […]

Dan Bowman, in a recent article, quotes a family physician who feels social media has no place in healthcare. He asserts busy physicians don’t have time to add yet another technology to their already busy schedules. I see his point, but I have to challenge this. Social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many other […]

I recently heard on the news that some employers were asking job seekers to provide their Facebook ID and password so the company could see what they were posting.  To me that’s outrageous.  I don’t have anything to hide from my own posts, but who knows what some of my friends might put on my […]

My brother in law, Aaron Keller, penned a nice article on Pinterest and Twitter.  Now, he is a design type and does all things great in branding so I would expect nothing less from the man.  Nothing that I guess one hasn’t thought about for a while but what this has raised is the capabilities […]

One of the great add-ons to the Sharepoint stack is Newsgator Social Sites.  I was on a recent client who is a highly regulated healthcare company and even though the Newsgator has a great mobile app, it wouldn’t work within their security model.  That model required that all BYOD (bring your own device) employees needed […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at his blog for this. IBM’s Connections products have supported widgets for a while.  IBM’s WebSphere Portal also has a widget portlet. That means you can write a widget that works on many platforms. I haven’t seen a lot of that until now.  Collaboration Factory has created several widgets that work […]

Industry Today Healthcare ranks as the largest industry in the world and is responsible for generating over $4.5 billion in revenue. While the United States is home to only 5% of the total world population, US residences are responsible for nearly half ($2.2 billion) of annual healthcare expenditures. The industry provides employment to over 15 […]

Thanks for Erin Moloney for pointing this out to me.  Tara Clark at Business2Community.com has a quick post on the 5 ways you can harness the power of social tools.  I won’t steal her thunder by reposing everything but I will provide a quick list and then commentary on one item that stuck out at […]

IBM Connections continues to be a hot topic with clients.  This past weekend IBM released the latest version of Connections – 3.0.1.1.  In this latest release, IBM has added support for Redhat EL 6.1, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 9, and Sametime 8.5.2.  There also lots of fixes included. In addition, IBM just uploaded a newer […]