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The social web drives awareness, market share & profits

The social web drives awareness, market share & profits

Last month, McKinsey came out with their quarterly report, “The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday,” where they find that companies using the Web intensively gain greater market share and higher margins.

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.

Tweets of the week: Cool Vendor, New Survey and Best Practices

This has been an exciting and busy week here at Socialware. In case you missed it here are the tweets of the week. To stay up to date in real-time follow @bockius and @socialware. Gartner Names Socialware Cool Vendor in Cloud Security Services for 2010 http://bit.ly/dqA2lB RT @enterprises: Social media compliance extends beyond archiving http://bit.ly/9RS7jd [...]

Latest Social Networking Tools: GPS and a Helmet

Latest Social Networking Tools: GPS and a Helmet

Explaining business software can often be a challenge. You will typically see descriptions like this: “Our new collaboration cloud is the latest SaaS-based app to enable new levels of engagement, uncovering real-time influencers that gets translated into a listening grid so you can better automate outreach, nurture leads and convert high-value traffic.” While this is [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

The convergence of social in the enterprise

The convergence of social in the enterprise

There is a lot of buzz these days about the social enterprise, social CRM, social business, enterprise 2.0, collaboration platforms and everything in between. Just look at a few of these recent articles and reports. – TechCrunch listed Social CRM as a top 10 trend in 2010 – There are full blown conferences focused on [...]