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2010′s Collaboration Imperative: Where Social Technology and Enterprise Content Collide Share
Apr 27th
by Phil Green, Inmagic, IT Business Edge
Many analysts are predicting 2010 to be the year of collaboration. In a recent study of IT strategists, Forrester found 70 percent of respondents believe collaboration technology will significantly cut decision making time and improve productivity this year. Couple that with Forrester’s Global Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Survey, which found 61 percent of organizations believe “content sharing” is a major ECM investment driver, and it’s clear business leaders have recognized the collaboration imperative.
Now the challenge is how best to address that imperative. Business leaders are increasingly focused on ways to enable faster, more cost-effective sharing, teaming, and learning among employees. In particular, they’re looking at social media technology as a means to this end, and determining how it can be used inside the firewall to foster collaboration and achieve business benefits. More >
Facebook’s Open Graph Personalizes the Web
Apr 27th
Facebook has created a platform that allows sites and apps to share information about users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each one’s interests and tastes — even if that individual has never visited the site before.
When you’re signed on to Facebook, participating websites like CNN.com will display information, goods and services tailored specifically to your interests — without requiring you to sign in at that website or provide it with any information.
Speaking at the F8 Developer Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former FriendFeed CEO Bret Taylor, who is now Facebook’s director of product, named three new features that will make this possible and easy to implement. More >
Google Reveals the Future of Printing With Google Cloud Print
Apr 16th
Posted on Mashable by Stan Schroeder on 16 April 2010
Whenever you want to print out a document, you rely on your local operating system, which must have drivers installed for each printer you intend to use. Most of the time, it’s not an issue: at home, you probably have one printer, and all your PCs have the required drivers.
Things get a bit more complicated when you want to print something from a mobile device, like an iPad. Or a laptop based on Google’s Chrome OS, which relies entirely on web apps and services. This is why Google is working on Google Cloud Print, a service that enables “any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer.” More >
HOW TO: Target Social Media Influencers to Boost Traffic and Sales
Apr 16th
Posted on Mashable by Ben Straley (CEO of Meteor Solutions, providing the leading word-of-mouth analytics and optimization platform that enables marketers to measure, manage, and monetize earned media.)
Google Wave: A Complete Guide
Feb 18th
Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google Wave, Google’s new real-time communication platform that will launch t
o the public on September 30th. In fact, there’s been so much buzz that you might just not have enough time to read the thousands of articles being released on Google’s biggest product launch in recent memory.
To make sense of it all, we have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave. This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications, (i.e. the Twitter Wave app Twave), and goes over ways to keep yourself informed. We know you’re excited about Google Wave, so here’s what we think you should know:
