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Social Computing: Industry Voices

Social Computing News and Opinions from the vertical industry teams

June 2008 - Posts

Employee Retention and Transparency
Organizations talk a lot about how important their employees are and the contribution they make to overall success. This obviously means that employee retention is one of the key priorities.  To bolster productivity and a more engaged workplace, Read More...
Is there a New World of Banking?
Speaking to bankers who are trying to deal either in proactive or reactive modes to social networking, three basic “feel trends” seem clear. 1. Changing demographics from Baby Boomers (pass book savers to high touch HNW customers) to aggressive, impatient Read More...
Building Intimate Customer Relationships is "The Future" for Consumer Electronics Companies
Social Computing and Online Communities represent a great opportunity for building better relationships with Customers Brett Bonthron, member of Microsoft's High-Tech Manufacturing Team, discussed during a recent panel discussion at the Consumer Electronics Read More...
NewsGator Adds Value to Enterprise Social Computing Features for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
NewsGator Technologies, Inc. announced the general availability of Social Sites 2.0, a major upgrade for NewsGator’s social computing solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.  Social Sites 2.0 offers new social capabilities to Read More...
Social Networking at Miami Dade
The fourth-largest public school district in the United States needed a consistent way to deliver information to more than 1 million students, parents, teachers, and administrators. The district built a Web-based portal to provide a single point of access Read More...
Podcasting
With Store Managers and Store Associates spending very little time in front of computers, mobile applications, speech applications and podcasting become more relevant. Podcasting is a excellent means by which Retailers can communicate corporate information Read More...
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Continues to Emerge as Enterprise 2.0 Platform of Choice
The concept of social networking has recently experienced a great deal of visibility as a means to increase the productivity of information workers and organization members. Social networking as a concept involves the ability for a technology platform Read More...
Scotiabank goes social
  Heres a great story from Canada: Scotiabank, Canada's largest international bank uses wikis and blogs to create a community without borders based on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Portal Server. Click here for Story Read More...
Harley Davidson Ride Planner
I love the ideas and concepts behind the Harley Davidson Ride Planner . Its not only a great example of mashups but is also an excellent social computing application: it allows users to create and share ride information. In addition to that the application Read More...
Wal-Mart employees voice on the Blogosphere
Blogs are are great way for retailers to connect with their customers. Wal-Mart has launched CheckOutBlog.com to let employees post their opinions of products, advice on selecting environmentally sustainable food, their rants on the latest gadgets. The Read More...
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