Posts tagged twitter
the best social media service depends on YOU
May 5th
The question being considered in this category is “the best social media service for IT”. Well that depends. What is best depends on your requirements. What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to accomplish anything with social media? Remember the old adage, if you don’t aim at anything, you’re sure to hit it. Personally, [...]
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 [...]
Can Twitter predict the election results?
Apr 28th
Go back. Way back to your childhood. Before you were allowed to watch the Simpsons. That’s it. Think of that movie with the little deer, the rabbit, the skunk, the owl, the birds, and more importantly the one scene where the little deer’s mother got shot which sealed your convictions about the long gun registry…. [...]
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?
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. [...]
Twitter to sells Ads to pay the Bills
Apr 13th
Twitter began selling a service called Promoted Tweets today. Will it work? Will Twitter be Profitable?
Team Twitter
Apr 13th
This morning when I dutifully headed over to Canadian-developed Twitter dashboard Hootsuite I was prompted that one of my profiles had multiple owners and that I needed to assign one as primary, then once entering the upgraded API there were a slew of new tools for each of my twitter accounts where I could administer, [...]
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.
