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Solution Accelrators are free tools and guidance from Microsoft. These can help accelerate the assessment, planning and deployment of Microsoft technology. I have been working with several retailers in the past few weeks that are evaluating Sharepoint
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An excellent opportunity to learn more about Sharepoint 14: Check out the Early Bird Registrations . With many Retailers already running Sharepoint for their Intranet and Extranet sites the new capabilities are certainly worth looking at. A great example
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What is the 4-5-4 Calendar : The 4-5-4 Retail Calendar divides the year into quarters with the first and last month of each quarter consisting of 4 weeks each and the middle month of each quarter consisting of 5 weeks. Each calendar month begins on a
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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
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Recruiters have been known to mine all information about you via Blogs, Twitters and the other digital footprints that you leave behind. An online identity is a social identity that you establish in online communities. Although some people prefer to use
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Store Associates in specialty retailers are sometimes challenged in finding quick answers to customer questions about products. They need a quick way to find information. Search capabilities that can be accessed easily using kiosks and mobile devices
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I spent the last week in NY speaking at the WWD Retail Leadership Forum on Innovation Process Management. Among Retailers, innovation traditionally has been a compartmentalized, top-down process run by a small team. In my discussions with retailers at
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There is an interesting trend of companies using microblogging services like Twitter to monitor customer complaints. One example mentioned in the Boston Globe is that of a customer who griped about his HDTV reception via twitter during an NBA playoff
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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,
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I meet with IT Pros and Developers at Retail organizations on a regular basis. My discussions usually center around how Sharepoint can be used in various retail scenarios for setting up a communication and collaboration infrastructure between the Home
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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
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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
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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
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The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites. SharePoint applications
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With Online Services from Microsoft for e-mail, messaging, and collaboration, you can hand off routine IT management chores and spend more time focusing on what really moves your business forward. For Retailers this is a great way to empower Store Managers
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