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Posts Tagged ‘Consumerization of IT’
When will we learn? Enterprises are getting social.
Access to social media at work continues to be a hot topic. A recent article – like many others – underscores the challenges and victories that can come from blurring the lines between personal and business. “It’s the dumbest policy in the world to block your employees from going to social media sites,” said Mark [...]
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 [...]
Straight to the point interview on Blogtalkradio
I had the pleasure of talking with Jeff Majka on Blogtalkradio this afternoon. Jeff is the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Strategic Communications Group, a nationally recognized public relations agency that develops and executes integrated PR and business development strategies for technology companies. He also runs Straight To The Point, a podcast focused [...]
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 [...]
Top 5 predictions for social in 2010
ReadWriteWeb recently released a great post on their predictions for 2010. It is a long list and definitely worth a read. I thought I would share my own personal top 5 list distilled down from all the great insights they had to share. #5 “A new social network will rise to join the big ones. [...]
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 [...]
Security execs fear the unknown
Forrester analyst Rob Whiteley recently posted a blog entry titled “Security execs are insecure about Twitter”. At the Forrester Security Forum the topic of Twitter and the security threat it poses to enterprises got a lot of attention. Rob made some great points and raised some interesting questions. 1. Security execs must find a way [...]
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