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<item><title>Five Ways to Unlock the Business Value of Social Media</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:47:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Enterprises need to identify their goals, focus on quality rather than quantity, build compelling content, use social media for market research and tap into analytics.   -  1. Identify your goals and objectives. Its critical to understand what you are trying to accomplish and how social media can help you achieve results. This defines everything from the strategy to the software and systems an organization will use to drive results, says Accenture consultant Kelly Demp...]]></description>
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<item><title>Social Networks As  Collaboration Tools</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:47:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Social networks are people-centric and thus capable of  solving  unexpected, unplanned and unstructured issues .   -  It seems I cant enter a meeting these days without a CIO bringing up the topic of social networks: what they are, what they do and whether an enterprise really needs one. More often than not, its because theyve invested time and money in collaboration tools and knowledge management systems, and dont...]]></description>
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<item><title>Virtual Meetings That Work</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:32:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Video conferencing technologies are great for productive meeting that cuts across continents, time zones and cultures -- if you pay attention to the details ahead of time.   -  Its well-known that video conferencing and telepresence technologies can save money and alleviate the hassles and time involved in traveling to meetings. After the Iceland volcano disrupted European air traffic earlier this year, demand for these services tripled. Even now, demand levels remain high...]]></description>
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<item><title>Driving Collaborative Decision Making</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:08:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The concept of collaborative decision making is frequently employed as a catchall that includes everything from face-to-face communication to knowledge management to coordinating partnerships.   -  Collaborative decision making is a descendent of the broader concept of a virtual workspace, in which potentially disparate teams can come together to access a common work environment, post and share supporting information, and communicate in real time to solve problems. This virtual workspace equat...]]></description>
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<item><title>Salesforce.com Wants To Put Chatter on the Collaboration Map</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com is offering Chatter-only licenses for customers that are already using the Salesforce.com suite so that companies can deploy the collaboration platform beyond the sales and marketing organization.   -  Salesforce.com wants to put Chatter, its new social collaboration platform, into the hands of every corporate user who needs to work with customers or with co-workers to solve problems, provide service or share ideas.

As of June 22, more than 6,000 customers had switched on Chatter as part of the...]]></description>
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<item><title>Collaboration Tools Spur Performance</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:33:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nearly three-fourths of the companies that deployed collaboration tools said they experienced better performance.   -  Sophisticated collaboration tools enable organizations to perform better in business-critical activities and realize higher returns, according to “Meetings Around the World II: Charting a Course of Advanced Collaboration,” a Frost  amp; Sullivan study sponsored by Cisco and Verizon.

The research,...]]></description>
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<item><title>Business Gets Social With Community-Building Strategies</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:39:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Heres how to build a successful social media strategy and architecture.   -  Social Media has created a customer-interaction paradigm shift from a “one-to-many” broadcast model to a “many-to-many,” necessitating a change in how organizations interact and communicate across their value chain:  employees, customers, partners and suppliers. The rapid adoption of social media an...]]></description>
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<item><title>CIOs Must learn to Deal With Social Networking</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:49:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to balancing accessibility and security for employees using social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and other Web applications, CIOs must navigate a fine line that gets grayer every day. With the proliferation of social networking to empower these workers, our jobs as CIOs have become even more multidimensional, and these employees will continue to challenge our notions about how, when and under what conditions to provide access to information.   -  Todays techno-culture has spawned a generation of “info-brats” who demand immediate gratification when it comes to getting the information they want from the Net. Whether for personal use (MySpace and Facebook) or for business (blogs and instant messaging), this new way of communicating is a major c...]]></description>
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<item><title>Flying High With Social Networking</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:44:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[American Express Business Travel has built an industrywide community where anyone in the travel industry can exchange information and interact with others in the value chain.   -  Few industries have witnessed as radical a transformation as travel agencies and services. In little more than a decade, paper tickets have all but disappeared, bookings have migrated online and value-added services have become essential for survival. 
What hasnt changed is the way most agencies in...]]></description>
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<item><title>Social Networking Sites Good for Businesses</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Encouraging employees to use networking technologies to build relationships and closer links with colleagues and customers could help businesses rather than damage them. Author Peter Bradwell said that while companies were using specific systems to share information, online social networking sites could also play a role, helping with productivity, innovation and democratic working.   -  LONDON (Reuters) -
Good news for workers addicted to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace -- a
British think-tank says bosses should not stop their staff using social
networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms.
The report by Demos said encouraging employees to use networking
technol...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Make Web 2.0 Productivity Tools Work</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:57:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Finding real productivity with social networking activities like microblogging is a challenge, and likely to get even more difficult, as new technology enters the marketplace. But there are a few enterprise strategies for making the most of the collaborative social tools.   -  As social networking tools hit the enterprise with full force, employees that have developed a fondness for Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace are now eager to extend their blogging and network skills to applications like Yammer and Dotster. But how can companies make sure the digital tools are enhancin...]]></description>
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<item><title>Men Happiest Online, Women Prefer Family Time: Poll</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:35:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In a poll in Australia, both men and women picked relaxation as the activity that made them happiest, but that is where the similarity between the sexes ends. Just over half of men said happiness meant surfing the Internet, playing online games or accessing social network sites such as Facebook, compared with only 39 percent of women.   -  SYDNEY (Reuters) -
For men, bliss is often just a mouse-click away while quality time with
family is guaranteed to put a smile on women's faces, according to an
Australian study of what makes people happy.
The  quot;Happiness Index quot; study, which polled more than 8,500
Australians aged 18-6...]]></description>
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<item><title>Porn Passed Over as Web Users Become Social: Author</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:22:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the new book, &quot;Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters,&quot; author Bill Tancer said analyzing web searches gave a wider picture of society and people's behavior. Tancer, who does research at Hitwise, an Internet tracking company, said one of the major shifts in Internet use in the past decade had been the fall off in interest in pornography or adult entertainment sites because younger adults are on social networking sites.   -  CANBERRA (Reuters)
- Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet,
dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people
communicate, according to a web guru.
Bill Tancer, a self-described  quot;data geek quot;, has analyzed information
for over 10 million w...]]></description>
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<item><title>The Business of Being Social</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:50:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Social networks arent just for fun anymore. Some Companies use them to accomplish serious business.   -  When you mention social networking, most people think about high school and college kids getting together virtually on Facebook or MySpace. So far, most businesses havent gotten too excited about this technology and few have invested serious money in it. Considering the state of the economy, thats n...]]></description>
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<item><title>Del Monte Gets Social</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:26:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Del Monte is hoping to capitalize on social networking as a marketing tool, to help the company get closer to its customers and create the kind of products consumers want.   -  As social networkings popularity has exploded in recent years, sites such as MySpace and Facebook have been transformed from unfamiliar names into cultural icons representing a potential goldmine for marketers. But behind all the hoopla about the promise of Web 2.0 technologies lies an important fac...]]></description>
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