Posts tagged facebook
Time for a Friendectomy?
May 9th
[NOTE TO READER: Every so often I feel compelled to rant. Today is one of those times. And since I was sitting down to write today's blog post, I felt it might be a very good time to let loose. So while this is lightly connected to this week's topic on Social Media, I will [...]
Social Media Services – If YOU build it, they may not come.
May 1st
Years ago, Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoon had Mike’s boss stop by his desk saying “Mike. We need a web page!!”. “Why?”, Mike asks. “Because everybody else has one!” was the boss’s reply. “OK, sure”, says Mike. In the next panel he is calling his teenage daughter asking “What’s a web page?” For some reason that [...]
Shopping for a smartphone – part 3 – freedom to innovate
Apr 30th
This has been a crazy week for me, perhaps if I already had my smartphone, I might have been able to complete this post earlier. With this third post, I’m getting to the heart of what I’m looking for in a smartphone purchase. In my first post, I rambled about my rationale behind wanting an [...]
RIM BlackBerry OS 6.0 too Little, too Late?
May 2nd
RIM presented OS 6.0 at WES 2010. Is RIM’s Blackberry OS 6.0 too little, too late?
facebook do we still trust thee?
Apr 28th
I use facebook. I was late to the party and started only a year or so ago. But my posts and any information that I place have gotten fewer over the last six months as I simply am not sure I trust facebook. I enjoy communicating with my friends outside of email, but as fb [...]
Getting Social in Canada: Jive Software
Apr 27th
Today I attended Jive Software’s Get Social tour stop in Toronto and left impressed not only with the company’s software and strategy, but with the quality of attendance at the event. The event featured a hour (and a bit) of keynotes including a look at how Canada’s RIM has used Jive’s SBS to deploy mybackberry.com. [...]
The Case for Deleting My Facebook Account
Apr 25th
If your privacy was violated by a system, would you still trust that system again even when those past assurances are once again violated?
The answer is ‘yes’ if you don’t value your privacy, and ‘no’ if you read on.
The Business Gets Social: SalesForce’s Chatter and SAP’s StreamWork
Apr 9th
Late in 2009 both SalesForce.com and SAP began beta testing social applications that proposed businesses could use social tools within their walls to address a variety of needs from financial management and sales tracking to impromptu group collaboration. Since then both of these solutions have gone live and are beginning to garner much interest in [...]
Ford: Socially Enabled
Mar 30th
Is Facebook a viable channel for advertising and for building customer loyalty? To answer this question, we look to a brief case study on Ford Motor Company.
