Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
From killers to hoaxes, 2009 had its share of the nefarious and inane―in real life and at the intersection where real life meets the digital world … a still mystifying and mysterious GPS coordinate somewhere in the Twilight Zone. To put things into perspective, we’ve come up with our own Top 10 list of some…
Where you may see a problem Jeff Catlin, CEO of Lexalytics, an Amherst, Mass. based developer of analytical software tools for business, sees a potential solution. “Today’s social media increasingly can be used to solve problems―if you know how,” said Catlin. Hop aboard because this train is now leaving the station. Growing numbers of CIOs…
Almost overnight it would seem Twitter has come out of left field to take over the micro-blogging world (or, depending on your perspective, create it). From CNN to the Fortune 500, Twitter is making huge in-roads into the our culture. You can use it to post whatever’s on your mind or search it like a…
The question is plain: do you have an obligation to store employee Tweets, Facebook status updates, and all manner of other social media utterances that continue to capture favor in this era of rampant micro-blogging? The answers do not come easily so step one is just recognizing that social media, in all it’s forms, is…
Berlin-based PR agency Zucker.Kommunikation and Blatterwald, media-resonance analysis specialists, have produced the first survey of content produced by companies that communicate by Twitter, such as Volkswagen, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Google and Lufthansa, to name a few. Over a period of one week, the way that companies work with the micro-blogging service Twitter…
The media are all over Twitter. It was recently the subject of a cover story in Time. Del Jones (@jonesdel on Twitter), USA Today’s leadership reporter, wrote a story a few weeks ago on capitalism vs. socialism using Twitter as his only source for information and quotes. The Wall Street Journal offered its readers (your…
Okay, so Twitter is everywhere. But what use is it for real business purposes? How about build a quick and dirty intranet that can be used for discussions, real-time status updates of team members, and be able to collaborate without having to shift through the Oprah tweets and still keep it secure. That is the…