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Webinars are free sponsored educational seminars that are accessed over the Internet. You can register for upcoming Webinars or view archived presentations via the links below.
CMO Webinar: A New Way of Listening to Customers
Date: 12/12/2012
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Find out how to use social tools and analytics to learn what customers are thinking, and get ahead of opportunities and avert crises before they happen.
Big Data, Big Benefits
Date: 12/11/2012
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Join us for an informative and engaging discussion with John Choi, IBM Director of Product Management for Big Data.
The Business of Social Business: What Works and How It's Done
Date: 12/6/2012
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The webinar reveals a new study, based on over 1100 respondents and interviews with over two dozen leading organizations, that identifies how organizations can take social approaches and apply them to realize significant business value.
Smarter Marketing: A new shared agenda for the CMO and CIO
Date: 9/28/2012
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Learn how the CMO and CIO must partner to deliver and capture value from customer interactions – in a way never before possible.
Tapping the Power of Customer Voices on Social Media
Date: 9/21/2012
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Find out how brands can use the oceans of information generated by hundreds of millions of customers talking on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Learn how companies can lead the conversation, influence it, and what to do with the information gleaned from customer voices about products, services and brands.
Leading Through Connections: Insights from the Global CEO Study
Date: 6/27/2012
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IBM recently launched the latest in a series of c-suite thought leadership studies: Leading Through Connections: Insights from the Global CEO Study. Learn what 1700 CEOs have to say about using advanced analytics to better engage customers as individuals. See how leading organizations differentiate by having better data access, insight, and translation into actions. IBM's BAO Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence Performance Management North America leader, Christer Johnson, will highlight client case studies using IBM's Smarter Analytics Signature Solution - Next Best Action.
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Mary E. Shacklett
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.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   31 comments
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?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   13 comments
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.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 comments
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.
Jon Carter
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Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine
5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 comments

Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
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Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track
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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.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future
4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments

A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet
4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments

Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'
4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments

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.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits
3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments

ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream
3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments

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.
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Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract
3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments

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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information
3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments

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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site
3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments

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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Taimoor Zubair
Fortune 500 companies lose at least $31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge. A Knowledge Management System (KMS) can help companies significantly reduce these costs.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
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.
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Write a Strong Corporate Social Media Policy in a Wishy-Washy World
Mary E. Shacklett
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.
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IT Helps Companies Find the Water
Matt Heusser
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.
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Write a Strong Corporate Social Media Policy in a Wishy-Washy World
Mary E. Shacklett
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.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
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.
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Is Your Site .Com or .Irrelevant?
Dan Cypra
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?
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