Social Business

8 Reasons Your Social Initiative Will Fail

The social software market is booming as companies rush to deploy software that help workers share information and communicate with colleagues, customers, and suppliers. But it's tricker to implement than you might think. Here are 8 things you need to avoid to get it right the first time. READ»

4 Things To Consider Before Becoming A Social Business

Before you can magically transform yourself into a social business, you have to understand what that means, and what is possible for your individual businessREAD»

Surprising Findings About Mobile Worker Collaboration

A recent spate of surveys and reports examine the "digital transformation" to a more collaborative work environment and greater worker mobility. It's clear that there is a frenzy of interest in organizations moving towards a more collaborative work environment, but the challenges to doing so are complex.READ»

10 Bold Tech Predictions For 2012

Cloud, tablets, social business--here are the technology trends to watch out for in 2012. READ»

Why The New Twitter Leaves Me Feeling Disconnected

Twitter recently announced a new user interface and a host of new features. The new Twitter seems to be trying to do two things at once: make it more compelling as a social networking platform, while making it easier for the uninitiated to grasp. I think Twitter will likely fail on both counts. READ»

7 Facts About Social Business And Collaboration Platforms

Next-generation collaboration tools purport to ‘solve every problem you ever had,’ but what is real and what is noise? Like many new trends, there is enormous hype about anything social today--but to understand how your business will become truly social, start with this primer. READ»

Brands Need To Get Comfortable With Less Control In Social Business

As the pace of information growth and reach accelerates, profound questions arise for established brands on how to adapt.READ»

How Your Business Can Better Promote Itself--And Avoid Pitfalls--On The New Facebook

For businesses, Facebook especially just got exponentially more complicated, because there are now issues around your brand's visibility in the new timelines, as well as around the training you must offer your employees, who are all on Facebook in their personal lives. Here's how to get started.READ»

Now That People Finally Matter To Businesses, HR Is The Next Big Thing

The social business movement is forcing employers to treat people like the valuable assets they've always been. Is Human Resources ready?READ»

Move Over Social Media; Here Comes Social Business

IBM is moving itself and its clients well beyond social media into a new era of collaboration, insight sharing, and lead generation it calls social business. Here's how your company can follow in its footsteps. READ»

9 Ways To Measure The (Actual) Success Of Your Social-Media Community

In the hype that is social media marketing, it is often hard to distinguish between the braggadocio and the brilliant. Communities launched with great fanfare slink away quietly into the burial ground of false promise. So to stumble across a vibrant community--one that predates Facebook and supports a B2B brand--is not just surprising, it is downright awe-inspiring.READ»

Enterprise C-Suites and Board Members Threatened by Social Business

Every customer is a potential reporter, and every employee is a potential spokesperson. READ»

Innovation Agents: Jeff Dachis, Founder, Dachis Group

Jeff Dachis, the digital media wunderkind who started Razorfish back in the '90s, is building a social business empire.READ»

Acumen Fund Co-Invests $2.2 Million in Ugandan Cotton Ginnery

The non-profit social venture assists the Gulu Agricultural Development Company, and aims to "provide more than just capital" as region hopes to recover from years of civil war.READ»

Can Design Solve Social Problems?

Can design save the world? Hilary Cottam thinks so. Her design team, Participle, includes anthropologists, economists, entrepreneurs, psychologists, social scientists, and a military-logistics expert. But it is driven by design techniques and headed by Cottam, who has used such strategies to tackle societal issues -- starting with addressing the shortcomings of Britain's school and health systems.READ»

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