Articles about Social Networks

Moving Social Networking and Relevancy from the Consumer to the Enterprise

For business intelligence (BI) solutions, taking the top attributes from social networking, including the sharing of insightful data and ability to “follow” others, is moving to the world of enterprise BI. Continue Reading »

Five Top Challenges of Integrating Social Media Data with Business Applications

Social media has become a valuable source of feedback for businesses that are wise enough to leverage the data it produces. For example, sales teams can keep an eye on their happy customers and their competitors’ unhappy customers. Continue Reading »

HP Launches Project Moonshot

While NASA won’t be launching anymore rockets for a while, HP seems to be stepping in with a Project Moonshot of its own. In a nod to the history of NASA’s original space race to the moon, it has even named the first "launch" platform "Redstone," like the original rocket that America’s first astronaut, Alan Shepard, rode into space. Continue Reading »

Leveraging Social Software to Harness Employee Innovation

Many business benefits have been linked to the use of social software within the enterprise. Indeed, it has become common to find organizations using social tools (e.g., blogs, wikis, social network sites) to increase productivity, improve access to subject matter experts, and connect co-workers across functional and geographic boundaries. Continue Reading »

Google+: Should You Consider a 'Frenemy' Circle?

While much can be said about the concept of a "frenemy," common wisdom usually is to avoid them at all costs. However, that proves impractical in most cases, and the best bet is to keep tabs on those frenemies. Continue Reading »

Social Networking for Business

As employees continue to use social networking tools in their personal time, more and more employers are seeking to integrate social networking tools within the workplace itself. Continue Reading »

Falling Behind the Social Media Times

Jive Software has come out with the results of a survey showing the business impact of social media (although they’re calling it "social business") adoption. Like the others that came before it, it’s an interesting survey that shows the benefits of incorporating a social media strategy into a company’s marketing and customer service plans. In my opinion, however, the survey is about six months too late. Continue Reading »

Got a Social Media Policy?

Surveys abound about the way e-mail has invaded our lives, for better or worse. Now it seems that social networking sites are quickly becoming the scourge of the new millennium. Continue Reading »

AVG Extends Anti-Virus Suite to Social Networks

Free security software also now has faster scanning and new "Fix It" feature. Continue Reading »

Q1 Labs Brings SIEM to Social Media

Version 7.0 of QRadar now monitors major social networks and multimedia applications. Continue Reading »

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