Outside of the financial services industry, very few companies actually monitor what their employees say on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the 1,000+ other social media sites around the world. Few companies scan short URLs for potential…
Here are four predictions, trends and developments that I believe will occur in 2012 and will have important implications for messaging, collaboration and related decision makers: 2012 will be the year of social media management Imagine letting…
One of my favorite films is Clear and Present Danger. Early in the film, there’s a good exchange between the president of the United States and his group of advisors who are meeting to discuss the ramifications of a lifelong friend of the…
Electronic communications is a two-way street: with the right tools one can illuminate the world with words of wisdom and insight. Alternatively, one can demonstrate why the most powerful communication tool they should be given is a crayon….
Symform is a Seattle-based company that has developed an interesting approach to cloud-based data storage. Instead of building out a traditional data center, Symform customers provide all of the local storage themselves that Symform assembles…
An interesting article was published yesterday regarding innovative job-seeker Attilla Nemeth, a 26-year-old Hungarian who was eager to get a job in Marriott International’s IT department. While “innovative” and “eager” are normally good…
In yesterday’s mail I received two unusual pieces of correspondence: the first, a handwritten note from a collaboration expert – and a very nice man – that does some industry analysis for us as part of our annual information…
To some decision makers, “social” media has the somewhat dubious connotation of people telling the world what they had for breakfast or spending a couple of hours each day keeping up with family and friends when they should be working. To…
This post is aimed at people who don’t think that social media offers much real business value and that it’s more time-waster than productivity tool. One of my favorite quotes from Jimmy Fallon: “Did you guys notice this? Twitter was down for…
As communication evolves, it becomes more viral and more rapid in its distribution. For example, a letter is essentially a one-to-one communication. An email is, at best, a one-to-several communication. Social media, on the other hand, is…
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