The Rise Of The Niche Social Network ⚙ Co. The option to share Instagram photos on Facebook and Twitter is both a blessing and a curse.
When I want to share a photo that’s particularly special with my Facebook friends who aren’t on Instagram (i.e., my grandma), I can do so. When I want to share a photo that’s particularly witty on Twitter, I can do so. But when I see the same linked photos on Facebook and Twitter, and then again on Instagram, it drives me nuts. Especially if said photos are of my friend’s cat... and I like cats.
Haydn.visibli. CHINA. Customer Experience. Above and Beyond KM. Enterprise 2.0 Review - Social Business is Evolving #e2conf. As I review my notes and collect my thoughts from this week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, one trend really sticks out as having come up over and over again both in keynote presentations and on the expo floor.
Namely, the evolution of social business from what speaker Wim de Gier of LeasePlan termed an “internal version of Facebook” to a sophisticated collaboration tool with communication and knowledge capture capabilities fine-tuned for corporate users. Vendors Heed the Need for Social ‘Business’ A majority of the vendors I visited on the expo floor were offering some variation of a true social “business” platform that does far more than let users post comments and photos and/or conduct chat sessions in a closed enterprise community. It is also worth mentioning that many vendors are building on the near-ubiquitous adoption of Microsoft Office and SharePoint tools by providing add-on features that bring the functionality of these applications into the social business world.
Measurement & analytics. Social Currencies. Case Studies. CEOs and Social Media. 4 Stages to Becoming a Fully-Integrated Social Enterprise. Social media adoption does not happen by accident.
Companies do not wind up with a fully-integrated social enterprise without planning. And that planning is driven by having the right people in the right positions at the right time. It is very rare that a company can go all-in on social media without going through a series of stages. (It is likely impossible for larger organizations.) One way to view these stages a company can go through is to view it through the lens of the social media champion. IBM-CEO-study-results-FINAL-UK-Ireland-2012-Infographic.jpg (JPEG Image, 640×478 pixels) Adapting Old Organization Structures to New Challenges via Horizontal Links. By Valdis Krebs "We may not be interested in chaos, but chaos is interested in us.
" - Robert Cooper When change was slow, and the future was pretty much like the present, hierarchical organizations were perfect structures for business and government. The world is no longer predictable, nor are solutions obvious.
Stop Talking About Social and Do It - Nilofer Merchant. Design. The Internet's Battle For Our Digital Souls. Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are “brain candy” for Internet users.
Every status update, every tweet, every pin is a micro-jolt delivered squarely to the pleasure centers of our brains. We get approximately the same type of pleasure from talking about ourselves on social media as we do from having sex. As Facebook bulks up to take on new challengers after its much-anticipated IPO next week, is it possible that the battle for future dominance on the Internet will actually take place inside our heads? Emotions, visualizations and new ways to stimulate our senses suddenly matter more than ever on the Internet as companies figure out how to turn us all into Pavlovian subjects lusting after the next viral meme. Getting the neuroscience right, quite simply, is the key to future billion-dollar valuations.
How Much is Each Facebook User Worth? Facebook’s latest valuation just reached over $100 billion, and for some reason that struck a chord with me, especially considering the number of users on Facebook.
So, just because it’s an interesting thing to think about and not a serious calculation, we decided to do some math: We reported earlier today that the last auction of Facebook shares on the secondary market has been completed. According to PrivCo and other sources, the final share price of $44.10 values Facebook at roughly $104 billion. CBA hailed for social media initiative. Google Meets Miss Manners, Encourages Searchers To Thank Those Who +1'd Content. DEAR MISS GOOGLE: When I searched for something using your service, I found a friend had +1′d one of the of listings.
What should one do in this case? GENTLE SEARCHER: It’s always polite in these situations to thank your kind friend. In fact, I’ve added a new “Thank” feature allowing you to do exactly this, though Google+. Yes, a new Google+ feature has been spotted in the wild that further blends organic results with social information. Early today State of Search and charliesaidthat noticed a thank you link on an organic listing next to the Google+ users who +1′d a result. When logged in as a Google+ user, various editors here could see this functionality appearing sporadically on a range of search terms.
If a searcher did choose to thank someone for the +1, they were prompted to thank directly on Google+. This limited visibility post is shown directly on the wall of the user who is doing the thanking. Telstra: ROI of their social media strategy. Sitecore - Best .NET Content Management System. Building Social Bridges. Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
Inside Gatorade’s Social Media Command Center. In the realm of marketing, Gatorade is probably best known for splashy commercials featuring some of the world’s most famous athletes.
However, a new effort behind the scenes of the PepsiCo-owned sports drink maker is putting social media quite literally at the center of the way Gatorade approaches marketing. The company recently created the Gatorade Mission Control Center inside of its Chicago headquarters, a room that sits in the middle of the marketing department and could best be thought of as a war room for monitoring the brand in real-time across social media. Mission Control The room features six big monitors with five seats for Gatorade’s marketing team to track a number of data visualizations and dashboards –- also available on to employees on their desktops — that the company has custom built with partners including Radian6 and IBM. Below are a few of the visualizations that we got to check out in an interview last week: Mission Control in Action Gatorade’s Sr. The Future. Insights on Social Business Adoption from IBM. Jermaine Dupri On The Secrets Of Building An Online Community.
Platforms. Content. Social Media Infographics. Pearltrees videos. Video/YouTube. Strategy. Kabbage: for SMEs, More Social Media Engagement = More Cash [INTERVIEW] Blogging. A Catalogue of Social Media (and Related) Tools. What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. Six years ago, MIT Sloan’s Andrew McAfee coined the term “Enterprise 2.0″ as shorthand for what collaboration and sharing tools such as blogging and wikis (and, today, Twitter) would mean for enterprises.
In a Q&A, he talks about how CEOs see this world today — and what really sells them on the tools. Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Digital Business From his base at the Center for Digital Business at MIT, Andrew McAfee‘s job these days is, he says, to “try to understand all the different things that technology is doing to the business world, all the different ways that it’s changing innovation and productivity and process execution, and then, at a higher level, try to understand how it’s affecting the work force and how it’s affecting competition.” In 2006, you coined the term “Enterprise 2.0.” How did you come up with it? I started to get interested in the phenomenon when I started to hear this phrase “Web 2.0″ getting thrown around. FINRA relaxes social media controls. FINRA relaxes social media controls Australian financial planners may see some of their social media compliance issues lessen if Australian regulators follow FINRA's lead, after the US regulator proposed changes to its rulings to allow planners to communicate through social media without having to file the communication.
The proposed new compliance rules were for an exclusion to apply for "retail communications that are posted on online interactive electronic forums," said the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Defining retail communication as any written (including electronic) communication made available to more than 25 retail investors within any 30 calendar-day period, FINRA was also adamant that the exemption would not apply for institutional investors who receive the communication. However, US advice firms were encouraged to install their own compliance practices for their advisers to follow to ensure no breaches of conduct.