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Ignoring social networks won’t work

Ignoring social networks won’t work

As all types of businesses evolve on the social web one thing is true, everything has changed. IT is no longer in control, decisions are made on a department-by-department basis. In the world of financial services this can also mean individual advisors are making their own decisions, regardless of corporate policy.

10 reasons you should use social networks for business

10 reasons you should use social networks for business

A while back The Harvard Business Review posted an article titled The Uber-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010. In the article they shared details about companies that are still blocking access to social media sites and those that have started to embrace the value these sites can offer. We’ve already shared some stats around companies [...]

Gartner’s social software predictions for 2010 and beyond

Gartner’s social software predictions for 2010 and beyond

Gartner recently released a set of predictions on the use of social software in the enterprise. If you are like most executives you can feel the pressure from your organization to become more social. If you are already a consumer of social applications you will probably be nodding your head in agreement. I won’t analyze [...]

New research report on the use of social at work

New research report on the use of social at work

Every day we are flooded with statistics about social media use, companies defining policies, companies blocking access and even companies forcing employees to delete their LinkedIn account.  Well today is no different. Manpower, a world leader in the employment services, released a report that surveyed over 7,700 business in the Asia-Pacific region. Their findings are [...]

New Cisco Report: Need for Social Middleware

New Cisco Report: Need for Social Middleware

Cisco recently commissioned and published a report to study how organizations use consumer social networking tools.  The results were both promising and shocking. The report reveals the both the value of adopting these tools in the enterprise and also the risks that need to be addressed through stronger governance and IT involvement. Here are a [...]

Building a culture of passion, excellence and fun

Building a culture of passion, excellence and fun

Do you build a company culture or does it emerge by making the right decisions about the people that you make part of your early team?  The truth likely lies somewhere in the middle, i.e. having the right group involved with a company that have a shared passion is critical but you also have to [...]

Socialware featured in the Austin Business Journal

Socialware featured in the Austin Business Journal

Staff writer Christopher Calnan just published a profile piece on Socialware and the need for Social Middleware. The article gives an overview of the company, the problems we are solving in the social space, background on our funding and a perspective from the industry.  On that front here are a few of my favorite quotes: [...]

Innovation and collaboration without the enchiladas

Innovation and collaboration without the enchiladas

The sharing of ideas and innovation has long been deeply tied to social settings like Starbucks, a pub or your favorite restaurant.  It seems that entrepreneurs seek each other out to share ideas and test concepts.  The picture above was taken at a local Austin restaurant called Guero’s.  Not only did this table produce a [...]

What’s in a name? In this case a lot

As you may have seen or heard, Socialware officially launched to the world last week and staked it’s claim to what we consider to be a new category of technology, Social Middleware. The long and winding road to arriving at what we consider to be the perfect description of the void in the technology and [...]