Tag Archive: Facebook

Salesforce.com dropping Social

Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, is dropping the term social in his delivery message. Social wasn’t flying.

Applebee's Overnight Social Media Meltdown: A Photo Essay

Here is another example of the importance of businesses undertanding the use of social media. Applebees is going through an extraordinarily rough time with their social media and the firing of an employee. Their social media platform is not being properly managed and they are feeling the global pain right now. Just think, this could be your company.

Super-Abridged History of Business Communication

I know it is hard to believe, but – Business conversations were once done in person Business conversations were written in letters and memos Business conversations through taps – Morse Code (Sounds PAINFUL!)… Read More

One thing leads to another from restaurant search to Google+

It’s the little things that get you… I usually use my Open Table app to book restaurant reservations, but I heard there was a Zagat app so I went looking for it. It… Read More

Klout Would Like Potential Employers To Consider Your Score Before Hiring You. And That’s Stupid. | TechCrunch

This is something that I’ve feared for a long time, that companies would seriously consider a candidate’s Klout score before hiring them. I understand doing background checks to make sure that someone isn’t a convicted murderer and checking on a GPA to get an idea of how someone did in school. Fine, I get that. However, since nobody really knows how Klout scores are calculated, these numbers mean absolutely nothing to me.

Predicting Customers’ (Unedited) Behavior – Alex “Sandy” Pentland – Harvard Business Review

Big Data provides objective information about people’s behavior. Not their beliefs or morals. Not what they would like their behavior to be. Not what they tell the world their behavior is, but rather what it really is, unedited.

Twitter takes on Facebook: Let the social rumble begin | Cringely – InfoWorld

On the mobile front, at least, Twitter is winning. According to eMarketer, Twitter is kicking Facebook’s heinie in mobile ad revenues, bringing in $130 million versus Facebook’s $73 million…

Good Bye America Online (AOL)

Now, I know American Online (AOL) was an internet service provider. This was the first service I had back in the 1990s. But what have they done since then? Patch…Huffington Post ….

Business Collaboration Meet the Business Social Network: Best Practices

Best practices for using a social network as a business collaboration tool at work. Chatter, Yammer, Salesforce, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn

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