Musing about sharing and social in business To paraphrase Peter Drucker, the primary purpose of a business is to create customers, people who are able and willing to part with their money to buy goods and services from you. To paraphrase Ronald Coase, the primary purpose of a firm is to reduce business transaction costs, principally the costs of information, search, contracting and enforcement. Words like “sharing” and “social” are often treated as fluffy and ephemeral and Utopian and otherworldly, dismissed as being too pinko-lefty-tree-hugger to make business sense. Which begs the question. In this context, I think it’s reasonable to assert that anything that helps businesses to create customers and/or to reduce transaction costs is worth doing, “makes business sense”. So any debate about the value of “sharing” and of “social” in the enterprise needs to consider these things. Social networks reduce transaction costs in a number of ways. Sharing also reduces transaction costs in a number of ways. Instead we have patterns.
Google Wave - Communicate and collaborate in real time As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave. Stage 1: Google Wave is read-only -- January 31, 2012 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit waves. Robots that try to write to a wave will stop functioning. During this time, you will continue to be able to export your waves using the existing PDF export feature. If you want to continue using Wave, there is an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature to import all your waves from Google.
Best Practices: Applying Social Business Challenges To Social Business Maturity Models Early Adopters Cross Through Five Phases Of Social Business Maturity Interviews with over 100 early adopters of social business (i.e. social crm, E2.0, social media marketing, etc.) reveal 5 phases of social business maturity (see Figure 1): Discovery. A few individuals begin the process of discovering new tools. Figure 1. Key Challenges Align With Social Business Maturity Phases As organizations face challenges in adoption, leaders face key challenges that align with Social Business Maturity (see Figure 2). Discerning hype from reality. Figure 2. 10 Key Challenges Align With Social Business Maturity (right click to view full image) The Bottom Line: Early Adopters Can Anticipate Challenges By Social Business Maturity Model As with Social CRM adoption, social business adoption will face similar stages of adoption and early adopters should focus on change management and business process design before beginning vendor selection. Your POV. Resources And Related Research: Reprints Disclosure
Picasa Web Albums: free photo sharing from Google One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Picasa Web Albums Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Twitter For Business Yesterday evening, my time, I attended a rather interesting webcast with Sandy Carter, IBM’s Worldwide Sales Vice President, IBM Social Business, Collaboration, and Lotus Sales and Evangelism, along with Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst at Altimeter Group, on the topic of Why Be Social?. It surely was quite an interesting event and, if you would be interested, you can catch up with the tweet stream by checking out the #sbweb hash tag; a copy of the slides both Sandy and Jeremiah used can be downloaded over here as well. Amongst some of the very insightful ideas shared throughout that one hour webcast was a reflection on how little most businesses seem to be spending nowadays (And not just money!) on providing education on making use of all of these social software tools, which I found rather intriguing, because it looks like we are bound to repeat the very same mistakes we did back then when something called email, or Instant Messaging, for that matter! That’s right!
orkut - login Facebook Usage in South Africa – March 2011 | Social Media Blog Welcome to our new series of monthly Facebook statistics in South Africa. This article provides you with the latest user numbers for Facebook in South Africa. 2 week ago, Marc Cowan, Head of Emerging Market at Facebook, gave a presentation in Cape Town on the social change. He said that soon South Africa will hit the 4 million user mark. Let’s see where we are today. On March the 3rd, 2011, Facebook counted 3.761.160 active users in South Africa. Most users (64 %) are between 18 and 34 years old. Next month, we will compare the new statistics with the numbers of March to record the development of Facebook population in South Africa. What people are looking for: social media officers contact nmbers in south africa | Support this website and buy your amazon stuff via this link .
Notebook As of July 2012, Google Notebook has shut down and all Notebook data should now be in Google Docs. As previously announced, in most cases we were able to automatically export the Notebook data, so please visit Google Docs. Also please update any bookmarks or links to Notebook so that they point to Docs instead. Here are answers to some questions about this transition. We may add or update questions over time. Where is my auto-exported notebooks data? For auto-exported documents, you should see a new document in Google Docs for each notebook you had in Google Notebook. If you are having trouble finding the new docs, search for “Imported from Google Notebook” in the doc list. What happened to public notebooks? All public notebooks were unshared. What happened to bookmarks stored in bookmarks.google.com? Bookmarks data is not affected; you will still be able to access your bookmarks at bookmarks.google.com. I’ve never used Google Docs. What should I do if there’s a problem with my data?
Mallguide Google © 2021 - Privacy - Terms Download Dropbox - Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy. When your download is complete, run the Dropbox installer Install the appropriate package if you want to use Dropbox on your Linux Desktop.If your distribution is not listed then choose "Compile from Source". Note: These packages install an open-source helper application. Dropbox Headless Install via command line The Dropbox daemon works fine on all 32-bit and 64-bit Linux servers. 32-bit: cd ~ && wget -O - " 64-bit: cd ~ && wget -O - " Next, run the Dropbox daemon from the newly created .dropbox-dist folder. ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd If you're running Dropbox on your server for the first time, you'll be asked to copy and paste a link in a working browser to create a new account or add your server to an existing account.