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Social Computing: Industry Voices

Social Computing News and Opinions from the vertical industry teams

October 2008 - Posts

Microblogging/Twitter in Retail
Press releases, Company Sites, White papers are great forms of communication but Microblogging stands out when urgency and time sensitivity is of the essence. Many people use Twitter for business-to-business communication, and retailers are also experimenting Read More...
Online Communities for Retail
For a Retailer, embracing communities can help build better services and boost customer loyalty. Through online communities, customers can participate in defining new features and services. They can also be the source of real-time feedback to help change Read More...
Social Shopping
Shopping is a social activity and more and more retailers are realizing that they need to embrace social computing (or the “groundswell” as explained in an excellent must-read book by the same name by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff ). Offline, Read More...
Consumer choice is beneficial and powerful…
I feel compelled to write about my latest healthcare experience. Let me start by saying that the industry group at Microsoft including myself has presented the 5 trends in healthcare many times. Kudos to Dr. Crounse for the deck in the first place. One Read More...
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