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10 Fortune 500 companies doing social media right

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Tags: social media

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

10 Fortune 500 companies doing social media right

Even giants with hundreds of thousands of employees can successfully flex to run solid social programs. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Social Media, Fortune 500 Company, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Palm drops Windows Mobile from future plans, WebOS only focus

very wrong step for Palm that will eventually bankrupt themPalm is trying to squeeze in to the iphone space and forsee the future with WebOs. it so sad they don't understand the future is both. the windows Mobile platform is used by the federal government and fortune 500 companies and...

Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, Mobile operating systems, Cellular phones, Operating systems, Mobile applications, windows mobile platform, Symbian OS Phones, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Treo Pro, Palm Inc., WinMo, Palm Treo, Fortune 500 company, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining

Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures decliningwhen will the big ISPs clamp down?We've heard that the big ISPs and free email providers are going tobe clamping down on inbound mail that fails or has no SPF records. Is that ever going to happen? I suppose that would light...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining

Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Authentication, Fortune 500 Company, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Additional Resources

Carper option in final Senate health bill

opt outdoes that mean a state can decide, whether or not, their citizens can get national health care?"Let the trolling begin in earnest."?I think you meant:"[i]Let those who disagree with me begin posting.[/i]"No......trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to get responses. You've even admitted you're doing that, because...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, U.S. Senate, health care, insurance, Carper, Lasik

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Spring Design debuts Google Android-based e-book reader, Alex

Myself, I do not even want a separate device, no matter how cheap. AND, I want to be able to read my books on any of my devices, such as smart phone, netbook, or desktop.ExactlyI would like to read my eStuff on my desktop, laptop or any other device. I...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Google Android, Google Inc., e-book Reader, e-book, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooks

O.o[i]Looks like Michael Dell is pushing for people to upgrade to the newest Dell laptops/desktops and Windows 7.[/i]He has to. It's how they make money.RE: Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooksNetbooks are about travel and portability. Am I going to give up my quadcore desktop? ...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.

Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...

Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Quick'n'Dirty Podcast: EMBARQ's social strategy and corporate microblogging

Each week the Quick'n'Dirty podcast features a case study on social media. This week's: EMBARQ, a Fortune 500 telecom company. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Strategy, Embarq Corp., Podcasts, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Fortune 500 Series: DirecTV strengthens customer channel with social media

Thank you for the opportunity to share our approach at DIRECTVJennifer,Thank you for the opportunity to share our approach here at DIRECTV. We strongly believe grounding our social media efforts in service opens doors to learn about all aspects of our business as these conversations develop and grow.Your Fortune 500...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DirecTV, social media

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Dissecting the FSF's "Windows 7 Sins"

Disingenuous?Is it disingenuous for the media and the police to be singling out Phillip Garrido for the kidnapping and holding Jaycee Dugard as a sex slave? After all, he's not the only person to have committed that crime.The FSF is in no way suggesting MS is the only company to...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows 7, Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Behind the failure of OpenSourceWorld

And yet..if the place was full you would be singing the praises of how popular and good OSS is. Surely even the OSS crowd could have got together for 1 day of the year to help generate the buzz around the software - a bit similar to seeing long lines...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, OSS, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

So you're going to sell software or work a trade show booth...

...it's time to get it right! I get pitched software 24/7. Along the way, I hear and see some pretty amazing things but too often I get my ear bent for way too long by folks who can’t get to the point. Why? Because these pitchmen and...

Tags: Software, Trade Show, Empathy, Sales Strategy, Telemarketing, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Sales, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Fortune 500 Series: How EMC used social media to recruit, re-brand, rebuild

EMC can best be described as an entity. Not only in the Fortune 500, the infrastructure information provider was recognized by Fortune as one of the 10 most admired companies for product and service quality. This success didn't come easy to the giant, which needed to significantly rebuild its business...

Tags: Social Networking, Brand, Social Media, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Security risks of Web 2.0 tools should not be overlooked by enterprises, individuals

Like it or not, the use of Web 2.0 technology use in enterprises is here to stay. Even longstanding enterprise software providers, such as Salesforce.com, have created tools for integrating social networks into the customer support and lead generation process. And you'd be hard-pressed to find a Fortune 500 company...

Tags: Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Google Apps isn't about CIOs

Larry Dignan wrote a piece on Google's new push to get their Apps products into the enterprise. He pointed out major sources of potential problems for Google in this space, particularly the inability of companies to host their own data. As Larry very correctly noted, ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-03

First American Improves Application Performance and Mobility With F5 and VMware

The First American Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Santa Ana, California, supplies businesses and consumers with online information in five primary industry segments, including title insurance and services, specialty insurance, and data and analytics. First American is the country's largest such information provider. Traditionally, each business unit had...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Performance, Information Technology, Mobility, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Salesforce.com: rethinking the database

While attending Fortune's Brainstorm event, several of us took the opportunity to sit down with Parker Harris, Salesforce.com co-founder and EVP technology. To say it was our first outing as Irregulars with the company, Parker was remarkably open and congenial, often straying into territory that would otherwise drive hyper controlling...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Zoho, Database, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-28