Saw an interesting snippet on CBS News this morning about a building contractor who is suing a former customer who allegedly disparaged him on consumer review sites Angie's List and Yelp. Already, the judge ruled the homeowner must remove a comment that accused him of theft and another regarding reported damage to her home. What can IT pros learn from this lesson, which could be costly for the homeowner (and allegedly has already been costly to the contractor, who claims to have lost business due to her reviews).
Paul, that's exactly why we founded IT Central Station. I don't know if you work for an enterprise or a smaller business. For SMBs I recommend Spiceworks, and for enterprises try www.itcentralstation.com
I was at linkedin focus group meeting this week and I can honestly say people of all ages have bought in to using social media for business productity & information to make decsions. It was amazing to see such clear evidence that linked in has changed the way people do business
Interesting report. I'd thought that B2B lagged B2C in using social media; looks like I need to update my thinking.
In one respect, though, IT has always used a form of social media. Usenet, which is 30 years old, evolved as a platform for exchanging technology tools and insights in academia. Usenet was a social network in all but name.
And let's not forget about another influential social network for IT -- Internet Evolution.
This makes sense. When purchasing IT equipment for the company I work for I will do just what this post is talking about. Look for reviews, find out from other peers what they think about something... Seems like common sense to me.
I've taken enough stat classes to realize how easy it is to skew results. And most of the sources you mentioned are alway vague in their releasing the details of the survey. GIGO -- particularly if the data was single-sourced at LinkedIn.
It's always wise to consider the source! It was, however, conducted by Forrester, which I've found to be a good researcher. Perhaps more importantly, the LinkedIn-sponsored study does mirror results of a November 2011 report by Global Web Index. That year-old research found that 60% of B2B decisionmakers use social media. A UBM study said social media is an IT decisonmaker's ally. Similarly, a Vanson Bourne determined IT decisionmakers are using an array of social media tools, not only LI, to help in their purchasing selections.
So there is a lot of other research that validates the Forrester report.
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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