Internet Evolution's Alison Diana describes how her daughter and friends are using social media to stay connected with a girl in their social group who's battling leukemia.
New tools like laptops, tablets, smartphone, and wireless connectivity let us work from San Diego to Katmandu, and anywhere in between. But time management remains a problem.
Showing results is the best way to win over social business doubters, according to Mary Maida, Medtronic lead information solutions manager. Internet Evolution's Mitch Wagner interviewed Maida at the E2 Innovate conference.
The restaurant chain's Chris Laping describes how the company drives innovation in everything from operations to team uniforms under his leadership. Internet Evolution's Mitch Wagner interviewed Laping at the E2Innovate conference.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
Wells Fargo uses social software to replace email chains and help its sales team collaborate more effectively to land deals, according to Kelli Carlson-Jagersma, VP Collaboration Strategy for Wells Fargo. Mitch Wagner spoke with Carlson-Jagersma at the E2Innovate conference
The medical instruments manufacturer looks to metrics to quantify its social business engagement, according to Mary Maida, Medtronic lead information solutions manager. Internet Evolution editor in chief Mitch Wagner interviewed Maida at the E2 Innovate conference.
The growth of big-data, the BYOD phenomenon, and the popularity of social media all present challenges to the notion of defending the security perimeter.
A recent release of the popular TweetDeck app for Twitter power-users gives new life to software that had previously taken a wrong turn. Here's a quick walk-through of the new TweetDeck, to show you why it should be at the top of your Twitter toolkit.
A growing number of HR managers are suspicious of individuals who do not take part in social media and view them as anti-social in real life as well as online.
We need to establish some framework for cultural harmony and tolerance in the Internet community to prevent the best global forum that has ever been becoming a locus of ill will.
Michael Brutsch, a.k.a. Reddit's Violentacrez, is a creep who posted borderline kiddie porn to the Internet anonymously, and got fired when outed by a media outlet. It's a cautionary tale even for people who aren't jerks and predators.
Marissa Mayer at Yahoo has come out with her strategy on turning the company around: culture, company, calibration, and compensation. But Yahoo needs to have a technical approach to the mobile cloud opportunity, not a management theory lesson.
"Social Enterprise" is an increasingly trendy term, and Salesforce.com has been leading the way. At its Dreamforce conference last week, the theme was clear: From here on, enterprise applications must have social capabilities built in.
Twitter's changes are clearly aimed at being more Facebook-like, and this is because both companies are vying to serve the mobile social network market. But can that market work for anybody, given how difficult it is to push ads to social-update readers?
Enterprises are discovering that using social networking within the secure setting of a SaaS provider's network gives them an unusual opportunity to freely collaborate with partners, suppliers, and even competitors.
As social media make their way into company operations, IT'ers and engineers are using it to exchange ideas and collaborate on problem solving with others. But there is also a line to be drawn when it comes to proprietary information sharing.
The very low-tech "scrum" project technique introduces "crowd talking" to projects and also sets the entire crowd to problem solving. So far, these new social-media-style meetings appear to have supercharged project execution.
Yahoo's new CEO can't go back to what Yahoo was; that's how it got to what it is! Instead she has to look at something that Yahoo has always rejected, which is a relationship with the telcos and cablecos. They'd love a partner in creating service applications.
Elizabeth Pizzinato, SVP of marketing and communications at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, calls content marketing "the new black" and explains how her brand engages its target audience.
Amanda Richman, president of digital at MediaVest, cites the rise of the 'empowered consumer' as one of the most significant changes in digital marketing today.
Jeff Mirman, vice president of marketing at Turner Sports, discusses how his company turns fans and followers into engaged brand advocates through social media.
Alison Lewis, senior vice president of marketing at Coca-Cola, discusses Coca-Cola's marketing strategy and the company's take on social media marketing.
Linda Descano, President and CEO of Women & Co., and managing director of partnerships and branded content of North America marketing at Citi, explains her firm's marketing opportunities and challenges.
If your friends and relatives can't manage to make it to an event with you, never fear: Researchers at Yamagata University are developing a miniature, wearable robot that uses telepresence to let you carry your loved ones around on your shoulder!
Facebook's IPO might change the way VCs look at funding fundamental Internet infrastructure research. If Facebook doesn't do well, VCs might move away from mindless flipping of social media startups and toward something serious. That could be good for everyone.
Companies are still getting their feet wet with social networking and what employees should and shouldn't broadcast. But they don't always involve HR and PR. Here's why they should, and what they risk when they don't.
A combination of an announcement by DT and a Pew survey is showing us what the next-gen Internet may look like, and why. The demand for flexible services, created by rewired, iPhoned, social brains, combines with cloud and optical technology to create something totally new!
As it turns out, Nicole wasn't alone in thinking that TwitterPeek – the $300 single-purpose device just for Tweeting – was the most useless device to ever be released.
There's a trend underway to make employee performance reviews everyone's business – letting peers, customers, and direct reports in on rating people's daily doings. Mary gives this a thumbs down.
Introducing Shopycat, a Facebook app for sort of maybe determining what to buy your friends and family for the holidays. Analytics at its finest? Not so much.
Facebook has more than 5 million deceased members and policies for how to handle their accounts. But, one problem: After people pass away, it's too late for them to decide whether they want their social media accounts preserved, "memorialized," or deleted.
Latest data shows we're separated by 4.74 degrees, rather than six. But do social connections online really count as connections? Or are we creating, via social networks, more loose and trivial relationships that inhibit the creation of real ones?
Dave Austin, communications director for Multnomah County, discusses why he's excited to move from the county's "old and clunky" intranet and onto an open-source platform, and how this change will help him do his job.
Congrats to the best-selling author who persuaded Facebook to allow him to register an account as Salman, rather than under his "real" but never used name, Ahmed Rushdie.
When it comes to Internet-related research, the gap between the real world and academia is widening. Indeed, a few boffins may be up so high in their ivory towers that Earth is invisible. Sadly, some of this research is probably costing the US government – and US citizens – real money.
The US government is funding controversial projects to collect daily Internet activity, including Web searches, Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, and the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones. Its goal is to map these interactions to predict social behavior, such as protests.
Facebook's latest round of changes may be more appealing to those whose lives revolve around it. In an attempt to get more committed eyeballs, Facebook may be making itself too intrusive to appeal to those who use it rarely, or not at all. That's the wrong choice in this now-competitive space.
Based on reactions in Nicole's Newsfeed, everyone hates this version of Facebook. This should matter to Facebook now that there's a real competitor on the scene named Google+.
Allowing users to share music and video on Facebook might sound like good news, but is this part of a coherent strategy, or is Facebook just stumbling from idea to idea?
Facebook's "Improved Friends Lists" are rolling out, but they're very different from Google+ Circles. The latter are like private labels; you're the only one who sees them. The former are like rooms you can invite visitors to, where they see you and each other. Google's approach is better.
The Daily Dot purports to be a "hometown newspaper" for the Web that covers something really, really special and unique: online social communities. Finally, a Website that will write about Facebook! Rejoice!
No one likes to be left out of the loop when it comes to the latest news about family and friends. But Facebook makes it possible for us to feel just that way when we encounter postings that make us feel disregarded or dismissed.
President Obama may soon earn the badge as "Mayor" of the White House, thanks to his joining the mobile check-in service, FourSquare. Let's all sigh in unison, shall we?
Google+ has gained a lot of ground since its launch, but to be a winner it needs to be quickly opened up to the full market. Google also has to think about how to expand its video hangout capability to make it into something that will provide enduring differentiation from Facebook/Skype.
With Google+ about to be added to the multitude of online platforms governing your life, virtual living is starting to feel overwhelming – and it's creating online widows (and widowers!).
Maybe Google+ will be competitive and maybe it won't, but it's likely to introduce video calling and OTT communications as a replacement for standard telephony. There will be major consequences to this, and we don't have an FCC or political framework capable of coping.
At last, social networking technology provides hope that traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) bottlenecks and process delays between suppliers and buyers can be eliminated.
President Obama conducted a town hall via Twitter this week by giving long-winded, spoken responses to Tweets. Kim thinks he should have just Tweeted back – and he demonstrates it can be done!
Facebook has brought about a world where people manufacture their personalities and live inside of Facebook rather than inside their own minds. This is very bad.
The US boasts a commitment to "Internet freedom," but in practice that commitment falls short. What Internet freedom really means is freedom of the mind.
The most dangerous company online is one you know well: Facebook. The financial pyramid swindle we call "Venture Capital" is driving Facebook to find more and more revenue to pay off its backers – and to put our privacy more and more at risk.
Our online communications and privacy are being threatened by governments and corporations. Eben Moglen believes it's time for a People's Internet, made possible by "Freedom Boxes."
President Obama appoints a Twitter CEO to an advisory committee; Rep. Anthony Weiner sends a racy, career-damaging Tweet; and Nicole and Steve laaaaaugh and laaaaaugh.
LinkedIn's IPO will open the door for some insight on how social net insiders think their own market space will fare. If LinkedIn now starts plucking up social startups it means it believes in its core business. If it grabs peripheral plays, it means the company thinks the opportunity for social networking may be fleeting.
Social media has broken news and torn down governments, but is it a force for good? Not until we can use the power of the Internet to build up something to replace what's been destroyed.
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