Social media monitoring, metrics, analysis and reputation management companies offer solutions to track what is being said about your company across popular social networking platforms, blogs, forums, news outlets, and more.
A recent independent study conducted by Nucleus Research reports approximately 1.5% of enterprise productivity is lost due to employees accessing Facebook in the workplace. The study shows that 77% of company employees have a Facebook account and nearly half of all workers access Facebook on company time.
Want a great deal? Check what your favorite brands are posting on Facebook and Twitter. Interacting with consumers through social media is becoming increasing more vital to corporate marketing strategies. The ability to globally broadcast praises and complaints about companies and brands has businesses very active on social networks.
Running a company in today's ever-changing environment requires a more fluid approach to problems and the ability to test solutions through trail and error methods. A company that exists within a fixed vertical structure prevents profiting from the true value of it's human capital. "There is never an ideal process or system and there will always be...
The culture of organizations is the most common barrier to implementing collaborative Enterprise 2.0 technologies into businesses today. Employees are commonly set in their ways and introducing new applications and ideas can upset the daily workflow and create resistance. The good news is...
Intrigued by the concept of Enterprise 2.0? If your company is considering implementing Web 2.0 technologies as an innovative business solution, advancements are being made every day within enterprise collaboration and social networking applications. If you're like most executives however, you are still on the fence or unsure how to approach...
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today in Boston, collaborative social software provider Socialtext announces Socialtext Free 50 to entice companies on the fence to integrate enterprise social networking into their organizations. This new freemium model offers online collaboration tools such as...
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference began today in Boston. Over 20 companies were chosen to announce their latest developments for business collaboration and enterprise social networking. Following up with Part 1 of this article, here is what will be introduced at the conference over the next few days…
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference will begin on Monday in Boston and more than 20 companies have been selected to showcase their new enterprise collaboration and business social media offerings. Here is what we can expect to see this week…
Since the birth of the World Wide Web companies large and small have been playing the domain name game; trying to come up with a killer domain that appropriately reflects their brand or creatively spinning...
Many companies these days are focused on developing applications that run online within "the cloud" a.k.a. Software as a Service (SaaS); Opera today introduces what appears to be a P2P development platform that promotes running applications locally and using the Opera browser as a web server. Opera Unite is a new technology from Opera that...
Looking at the structure of many modern day companies we see that capable parts do not always create a unified whole. This dilemma has a close relation to the Frankenstein monster, while constructed of strong individual pieces, he is inherently cumbersome and lethargic. Enterprise collaboration initiatives...
Social media marketing mishaps - say that five times fast. Today companies cannot afford to ignore the momentum of the social media revolution; still considered to be in an early stage of development and yet has had a profound impact on society and business at a global level. When looking towards the marketing possibilities of social networks...
The latest offering for companies looking to leverage the power of collaborative social networking software is CubeTree. This collaboration suite offers a
Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm that recently purchased a 2% preferred stock stake in the Facebook social media company is looking to acquire an additional $100 million in common stock shares. The $200 million agreement in May of this year valued Facebook at approximately $10 billion.
If you haven't been living under a rock recently you are well aware of Microsoft's latest foray into the search market with Bing. The latest buzz word in Web search is "real-time" lead by the constant flow of 140 character posts from the Twitter platform. Many companies have been attempting to...
Socialcast this Wednesday released an official developer API. After weeks of beta testing with select clients the API is now available for all Socialcast members. Socialcast is a real-time collaboration platform that allows companies to communicate and collaborate via activity streams where coworkers share text, files, images and links.