Social Networking and Product Development 23 Jul, 2009By: Tom Shoemaker Web 2.0 technologies bring advantages, disadvantages, and applicability to the product engineering processes. Are Web 2.0 tools appropriate for use in product-development settings? The Upside Companies can realize tremendous gains by incorporating social computing technologies — an initiative that product-development software company PTC has termed . A key value of social product development is that it allows engineers, project managers, and other product-development professionals to reach out to a broader network to gain knowledge and form new interest groups or communities. Each of the three communities that participate in social product development can be defined by its activities. A project manager at an industrial original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sets up a web portal to act as a secure project collaboration hub for an outsourced design task. Although these concerns are warranted, companies can take steps to mitigate potential risk. Want to see more?
30 Top Blogs For Social Media Updates | Showcases Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. In nutshell, Social media describes websites that allow users to share content, media, etc. Common examples are the popular social networking sites like Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Here we listing and describing Top Blogs For Social Media Updates that you should read. Social Media Networking really important for people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Social networking has created new paths to communicate and share information. Components Of Social Media Publication Tools :
A New Age for Social Media Marketing | Brian Solis inShare7 In 2010, Social Media will rapidly escalate from novelty or perceived necessity to an integrated and strategic business communications, service, and information community and ecosystem. Our experiences and education will foster growth and propel us through each stage of the Social Media Marketing evolution. As MarketingSherpa observes, “2010 is the year where social media marketers gain the experience required to advance from novice to competent practitioner capable of achieving social marketing objectives and proving ROI.” It’s a powerful prediction and it’s one that I also believe. This is your year to excel, teach, and create your own destiny. To document the evolution in maturation of new media marketing, MarketingSherpa published its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report. This is why I believe that business success stories shared to date were wonderful to read, but they didn’t necessarily serve as a framework for my work. I believe to the contrary however.
"Are Your Ears Burning?- 20 Tools for Tracking Social Media Mark By Merle Social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter make it easy for people to come together and share opinions, experiences and thoughts on a number of topics. Smart companies understand this and are using the power of social media to connect and inform their customers, and potential customers. Social media activities run the gamut from Blogging, micro blogging sites such as Twitter, social networking communities such as LinkedIn and Facebook, video and music uploading sites, discussion forums, photo sharing and more. Participating in social media doesn't take a lot of money, but it is very time consuming and businesses want to know that all of this investment in time is paying off. There are many different forms of social media, so it's impossible to use them all. So how do you monitor all the buzz? Let's take a look at some of the measuring and tracking tools at your disposal: 1) : A search engine for Twitter.
Main Page - Social Patterns "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media" danah boyd Web2.0 Expo New York, NY 17 November 2009 [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. In his seminal pop-book, Csikszentmihalyi argued that people are happiest when they can reach a state of "flow." Consider what it means to be "in flow" in an information landscape defined by networked media and you will see where Web2.0 is taking us. As of late, we've been talking a lot about content streams, streams of information. Those who are most enamored with services like Twitter talk passionately about feeling as though they are living and breathing with the world around them, peripherally aware and in-tune, adding content to the stream and grabbing it when appropriate. For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. To many of you, this seems like old news.
Aries - Graphic Design & Internet Marketing Tips Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques - Advertisement The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with computers, but rather about people interacting with people through computers. This is the nature of the social Web. Social news websites, message boards, social networks, online stores and blogs all have some sort of user interaction going on, whether it’s comments on a blog post or social games on Facebook. In essence, we control the flow of user interaction on our websites. “Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves and feels.” — Joel Spolsky, More Joel on Software In this article, we’ll demonstrate the power of social interface design and what it can do for you, using several practical examples.
Why Social Media Is Vital to Corporate Social Responsibility Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for "That Morning Show" on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com. A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like the current economic climate and recognition of global climate change, society is starting to push past awareness and into action. Corporate Social Responsibility Until recently, corporate social responsibility among businesses has revolved around risk mitigation and self-regulation. Today, CSR functions as more than just a set of guidelines to keep companies out of trouble. Panelists at the Justmeans Social Media for Sustainability conference, which was held in San Francisco last month, offered some insights on how social media can aid companies in being more socially responsible. 1. 2. 3. “There was a time when we only focused on reducing own environmental footprint,” said Jacobson.
13 Essential Social Media Lessons for B2B Marketers from the Mas This series is supported by the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, where you'll learn the ins-and-outs of social media as part of your overall B2B marketing mix. Register today! Social media marketing might feel simple for the B2C crowd, but with B2B, it's an entirely different beast. Businesses are entities that are not entirely social — and certainly don't do the immediate impulse buy like the typical consumer. Nevertheless, B2B marketing is absolutely possible on social media, but certain rules should be followed before proceeding along that route. We asked several "masters" about their number one B2B social media tip and included them below. 1. "B2B is more P2P - people to people. 2. "Content is my best B2B social media lesson. 3. "My best B2B social media lesson was … learning to quickly get clear on what I wanted to accomplish with social media, so that I didn’t spin my wheels. In the B2B world especially, it's crucial to step back and look at your business and who your target customer is.