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Canadian Firms Shun Social Media Tools

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:00:00 +0000

WHILE CANADIAN COMPANIES ARE FULLY AWARE THAT SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS CAN IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INCREASE SALES, such tools continue to remain absent in the business space, according to a recent study commissioned by global IT consultancy Avanade.

The survey found that 68 per cent of Canadian companies view social networking as the next…

- Author: Cindy Gordon

Facebooking - Perpsectives

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:54:00 +0000

Toronto has over a million Facebook users and is one of the largest social networking communities globally. With over 120 million active users globally, Facebook is the 4th most trafficked website in teh world, and the most trafficked social media site in the worls (ComScore). Over 55,000 users, work related, college and high school networks…

- Author: Cindy Gordon

Tracking Your Brand using Social Media Dashboards.

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:15 +0000

With the rapid innovation growth of social mediated solutions, executives world-wide need solutions to track the trends of their brands across leading solutions like:

Facebook, MySpace, You Tube, Delicious, Digg, and now even your Twitters....

let alone the blog market with a new blog added to the www web every 5 seconds...the growth is simply…

- Author: Cindy Gordon

What does Innovation have to do with Value Networks?

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:03:27 +0000

With over 96% of innovations failing, and the top two areas to yield innovation results are: 1) Business Model Innovation and 2) Networking.

What is the signficance of networking(Value Networks) to support Innovation and Growth? First, let's define what is a value based network.

A Value network is a complex set of social and technical…

- Author: Cindy Gordon

Web 2.0 in Context of Knowledge Management (KM)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:59:09 +0000

Knowledge Management is a management discipline that continues to evolve in theory and practice. In simple terms, KM is best defined as the body of understanding and skills that is mentally constructed by people. Knowledge is increased through interaction with information (typically generated from other people).

There are typically three major…

- Author: Cindy Gordon

Value of Web 2.0 - Some Key Perspectives.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:06:00 +0000

What’s happening with Web 2.0 in the enterprise?

With the slowing economy - Web 2.0 is falling under the discretionary spending column due to the belt tightening underway in the industry. As a Goldman Sachs analyst put it, execs are “searching for solutions with a high and fast ROI,” a criteria that is not appropriate with emerging …

- Author: Cindy Gordon

Web 3.0 - State of The Nation

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:08:45 +0000

- Author: Cindy Gordon

Corporate Social Networking "101"

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:30:00 +0000

I get asked all the time "Are there any guidelines I can follow to increase the probability for a successful implementation of corporate social networking solution within my organization?

While there are no hard or fast rules, here are some easy to follow recommendations from some of our customers:

Understand the business problem you are trying…

- Author: Dan Latendre

Confused About Corporate Social Networking?

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:51:59 +0000

Over the last 10 years the Internet has changed our lives forever - both from a social and business perspective. Currently we are in a phase which the experts call - Web 2.0 which provides us with a whole new set of cool tools that take us way beyond ordinary web browsing, searching and publishing of web sites. These new Web 2.0 tools take…

- Author: Dan Latendre