Welcome to Family Business Magazine! What could Quora's long-term business plan be The appeal of business networking Web site LinkedIn is blooming Tired of the flashy decor and adolescent social scene on MySpace, Melissa Andrews recently joined LinkedIn, a Web site that offers a professional-oriented alternative. Connecting with friends and colleagues in a more buttoned-down setting, she thought, might help in landing a new job if she ever decided to leave her position with United Way of the Bay Area, where she coordinates donations. In the two months since becoming a member, Andrews has linked up with old college friends and shared career advice. "I reached a point in my career where I need to be open to new opportunities," Andrews said. Many people are doing the same. Unique visitors to LinkedIn grew to 4.9 million in November, nearly triple the number from a year earlier, according to Nielsen Online. The site's popularity is part of the broader success of online social networking, albeit with a more serious tilt than its better-known contemporaries, MySpace and Facebook. For most of LinkedIn's users, the service is free.
World Forum of Public Broadcasting Welcome to Uclue B2B Social Networking - Content Provider Strategies From Clara Shih’s AppExchange Blog I’m in New York this week for the SIIA Information Industry Summit. I was on the B2B Social Networking panel this afternoon, alongside David Mather, President at Hoover’s; Bob Carrigan, CEO of IDG Communications; and Mike Dunn, Vice President of Hearst Interactive Media. The panel was moderated by Steve Sieck, President of SKS Advisors. Hoover’s happens to be an AppExchange content partner (in fact, here’s a link to their listing). We had a wonderful discussion around the latest social networking trends and what they mean for content publishers. 1. 2. Clarification (Made on Feb 1): Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, etc are arguably ‘closed’ networks themselves – what I meant by ‘open’ was open for anyone to join. 3. 4. 5. At salesforce, we are heavily invested in social networking technologies. The remaining efforts fall under three general categories. - Clara Shih, AppExchange Product Line Manager, Salesforce.com
Presentations on social media, advertising, digital transformation Here are some slides from some of the presentations I’ve given. Feel free to use, steal, re-purpose or leave comments that might make them better. Thanks. Courage, Collaboration, Creativity: Or how to succeed in the world of PR and advertising. 20 Tips for Developing a Creative Portfolio Harvesting Consumer Intent from the Social Web: SxSW 2012 Welcome to Strategic Creative Development: Class at Boston University #BUSCD The End of Us and Them: SI Newhouse Innovation Speaker Series Introduction to Boulder Digital Works’ Making Digital Work Workshop, December 2010 Presentation to Start-Up Companies for Ad Club of Boston, October 2010 Presentation at Planningness, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2010 Presentation to Boulder Digital Works, August, 2010 Presentation at Social Media Breakfast, Boston, May 2010 The Future of Advertising, Presented to Minneapolis Interactive Marketing Association, February 2010
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9 Free Stackoverflow Clones and Q&A Scripts | Web Resource, Tech Tips and Softwares - Enfew We have created a list of free open source Q&A scripts and Stackoverflow clones. Initially we had 9 items on the list but since our readers and community liked the subject they shared many other great scripts for questions & answers sites. So we are growing this list as the time goes by. Hopefully here you’ll find script or clone you have been looking for. 1. At its very core, OSQA is a social question and answer system. 2. OpenOverflow works on Mac OS X and GNU Linux, with Rails 2.3.2. 3. phpancake A questions and answers system, where the validity of the questions and their answers is determined and moderated by the community by a voting system. 4. Five minutes (or less!) 5. Qwench is a PHP/mySQL based StackOverflow clone. Features 1. 6. soclone – A Django-based Stack Overflow clone 7. stacked – An Open Source implementation of StackOverflow sample installation – we’re using it as our primary support mechanism for Ra-Ajax (a GPL licensed Ajax Library for ASP.NET) 8. shapado 9. 10. 11. 12.
30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook Josh Peters is a freelance social media consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah. He authors a blog at Shuaism.com. Think LinkedIn is the only place for business? Facebook is growing rapidly and it's becoming a destination for businesses and business professionals alike to establish a presence. Here are over 30 Facebook applications to help promote, network, communicate, collaborate and accomplish more with your business. Which apps do you use? Blog Promotion Networked Blogs app – This app shows up on your profile or in your boxes tab and displays your blog and any of the blogs you like to read. Notes (Default App) - Default App found on the right side of your profile. Social RSS – This one can be in either a box on your profile or even better, its own tab on your profile. Simplaris BlogCast - Quick and simple way to put the title of your blog post and a link to it in your feed. Business / Self Promotion Define Me – Displays a cloud of words others use to describe your business. Communication
Top 5 open source Q&A systems List of the open source Q&A implementation or stackoverflow-like website, with “Active” development and promising features and community. P.S This list is not in any particular order. Website : : : Python, DjangoDatabase : MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL ServerLicense : GNU General Public Licence (GPL)Source code : by : Folks at DZone 2. Website : : : Ruby , MongoMapperDatabase : MongoDB (Document Based DB engine)License : GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL)Source code : by : David A. 3. Website : : : Python, DjangoDatabase : MySQL, PostgreSQLLicense : GPL3Source code : by : Mike Chen and Sailing Cai 4. 5.