We are about to publish an industry analysis report on corporate use of social media and have completed three large surveys as part of that effort: one on the business aspects of social, one focused on its IT implications, and another with end users. Here is some of what we’ve found:
Social media use on corporate networks is up significantly. Our research found that 36% of corporate...
For those with Android 4.0, this week’s Chrome beta release is exciting and for some long awaited. Anticipated since 2008, Google is offering the latest browser direct from the Android Market, alleviating users from the wait for an operating system upgrade from handset makers.
The Chrome for Android beta is based on Chrome 16.0.915.75. Unfortunately for some this version is only for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich (...
For heavily regulated industries, such as financial services, social media is an attractive communications tool, but it needs to be managed carefully. According to a social business survey conducted last year by IDC, 51 percent of companies use consumer social media tools for communicating with customers, 43 percent are creating awareness about a company product or service, and 42 percent are acquiring knowledge/asking ...
While on-premises security solutions can provide robust defenses against spam, malware and other security threats, cloud-based security—used either as a standalone solution or in conjunction with on-premise defenses—offers a number of inherent advantages:
Most threats never hit the on-premises network—The use of a cloud service for spam processing, for example, eliminates the...
I’ll be the first to admit I can’t remember all my passwords. Most of us can’t, so we pick a few passwords that are easy to remember and then use them with multiple sites. This results in two immediate problems. A password manager can help with both of these problems. First, passwords that are easy to remember are typically also easy to guess. Second, a compromised...
More and more today, for the corporate user, social networking is giving way to social business, and along with it, experts predict, will be specific social media law and regulations.
There is lots of talk about email going away: some are swearing completely off of email, others complain about how many messages they receive in their inbox, others use only email. Our own research shows that for many corporate workers, the importance of email continues to grow. Add to all of this the continuing discussions about migrating from GroupWise to “Outlook” (the subject of an upcoming blog post), how Notes/Domino...
David Strom wrote an interesting piece about the just-released GroupWise 2012 entitled No Once Cares That Novell Has A New Version of GroupWise. His assertion is that GroupWise is yesterday’s news, has been supplanted by other platforms, and is simply a dying animal.
As a perennial New Year tagalong, many predictions have been tossed around the past few weeks. For messaging, the most agreed upon predictions appear to be social network security; targeted data thievery and attacks by groups like the Anonymous hacking collective; mobility; and malicious spam and Internet redirects. While there are other threats out there, these seem to be the ones most commented upon thus far for 2012.
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 links to malware sites. Few have deployed systems to protect against spam delivered via social media. Few have deployed systems to capture whatever business records or other...
In late December, a story exploded on Twitter concerning the court battle between Noah Kravitz and the site Phonedog over ownership of the followers for the @ Phonedog_Noah Twitter account. The facts everyone agrees on are that Noah was an editor for Phonedog starting in April 2006, that the @ Phonedog_Noah account was set up after that, and that when he left PhoneDog in October 2010 he...
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 your corporate email system be whatever your employees choose—Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, whatever. Then let them say anything they want...
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