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- Baby's got a new name: Social Business
- Baby's got a new name: Social BusinessThe name is already takenAren't you worried that your purpose for the name "social business" is not the same thing as the definition that has already been established by a Nobel prize winner, as well as pretty much the world at large? See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_businessRE: Baby's...
- Tags: Social Business, new name
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
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- SAP Users start to flex their muscles
- Ray WangStill wondering if Ray Wang has ever said anything positive about SAP. I am sure he has at one point in his career. Based on his comments, SAP should probably close up shop. Dennis, thanks for providing some balance. RE: SAP Users start to flex...
- Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Strategy, BS7, SAP AG, Ray
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Spyder 2.0.65 (Mac)
- Social network browser that makes it easy to organize, browse, and find new friends on MySpace. Spyder makes it easy to keep in touch with your friends or fan-base by message or comment. Add as many friends as you want, Spyder allows you to send friend requests too. Spyder also...
- Tags: Account, Apple Macintosh, Friend, Michael Link, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance
- What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...
- Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Taming the Chatter cloud
- To prove meaningful in the enterprise, Salesforce.com Chatter is not only going to have to be upfront about its social capabilities but is also going to have to come with tools that help deliver business value. That could prove a tough nut to crack. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Nut, Sales Force Management, Productivity, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- What's Happening Twitter? Slight languages changes have meaning
- For eons, people described Twitter as an application that asked, "What are you doing?" When you first hear that, you might think it's invasive. I've always wanted to tweet, "None of your business," or "What's it to you?" When a...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Productivity, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
- Don't think of Salesforce's Chatter as bunch of social networking techologies for business people to use. If you do, you've missed the real potential for businesses to operate in real-time. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise
- In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...
- Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!
- Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
- The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise
- Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks
- What this means for B2B marketers:Trade publishers have tried, unsuccessfully, for years to build such on-line communities which they could control and mine. As it turns out, customers (C-level execs) like everyone else want to own and control their own networks. If customers are increasingly turning to each other for...
- Tags: NETWORKING, social networking, network, social media, Astak
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?
- Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...
- Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons
- Of course its better, they stole ideas fromOf course 2010 is better, they stole (oops, innovated) most of the new ideas from Office MVPs that built add ins to previous versions. (There is a very silent revolt going on in the MVP ranks over it and many long term...
- Tags: Numbering, Microsoft Office, Office MVP, ribbon, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks
- This is a big deal: A new study shows that social networks affect business decisions... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?
- Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...
- Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!
- I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...
- Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- 'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary
- Drucker and E2.0Oliver -- Thank you for the kind words and for pointing out the HBR Drucker Centenary issue. My "Enterprise 2.0 Schism" post was fun to write - with tongue firmly in cheek - as you note. But it also expresses some serious beliefs.For me the key Drucker quote...
- Tags: Leadership, Drucker, E2.0, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
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