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Zynga Co-Founder Joins New Team
KIXEYE is the yin to Zynga's yang, as social games explode.
BrainYard News Briefs: Polycom Adds SMB Videoconferencing Options
Personalization for WordPress and Joomla. Secure email as a service. A new mobile and social promotions service.
Social Media Engagement: Feds Need Better Policies
Guidelines for use of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are being developed by federal agencies, but the GAO says they must do more to address records management, privacy, and security.
Jive Apps Seek Enterprise Rigor, Consumer Cool
Jive gathers Apps Market partners to discuss creating consumer quality apps with enterprise power.
In Case of Emergency, Check Twitter
Facebook, Twitter, and similar social media tools can enhance disaster preparedness and emergency response, according to New England Journal of Medicine commentary.
Twitter Pushes Ads Into User Timelines
Promoted Tweets will now appear in the stream that users see, augmenting the Twitter search advertising the microblogging service introduced last year.
Hearsay Helps Big Social Marketing Campaigns Get Local
Social software specialist broadens support for launching major marketing campaigns with corporate control and local customization.
Gmail: A Cure For Outdated Email Addresses
Google's social marketing campaign targets users of aol.com, hotmail.com, or yahoo.com email with an "intervention" to save friends from "embarrassingly out-of-date" email addresses.
Facebook For Business Debuts, Watch Out Google?
Not a new service; rather, it's a portal to help businesses understand social marketing.
Newest Enterprise Social App: Mentoring
Connecting employees and mentors online proves efficient, says Triple Creek, whose software has found fans in AT&T, Fannie Mae, and Agilent.
VMware Never Said Virtualization Was Easy; Google+ Pains
Griping about VMware price changes? It's time to get practical. As for early users of Google+, the bumps continue.
Socialcast Lets Businesses Invite Outsiders To Join Network
Enterprise social network adds options for including partners and customers.
Google+: Doing the Math
Someone call MIT! Don Rose has reduced the entire Google+ phenomenon to one mathematical equation.
Are There Any Humans in Silicon Valley?
Macromedia founder Marc Canter says you've got to automate global and scale local to succed -- and talk to people outside of the California milieu. That's why he's in Cleveland.
Moxie Upgrades Social Customer Portal Personalization
Customer Spaces now can integrate data such as purchase history and past support interactions for smarter personalization of what customer sees.
First Look: Google+ Ultimate
Google+ Ultimate lets you control various aspects of how Google+ presents itself in your browser
Google+ All BYTE Coverage
Google+ is now open without invites. Here's a running list of BYTE's Google+ coverage.
Keep Others From Sharing Your Circle Posts on Google+
Here's how to disable sharing private conversations on Google+
Google+: We Screwed Up
Google's shutdown of Profiles created by businesses has Google+ users crying foul.
Could Social Media Flub Cost You $4.3 Million?
What can a social media mistake cost your company in fines, litigation, or loss of customer trust? A new survey reveals some interesting data points.
Google Closes Google Labs
CEO Larry Page says the company is putting "more wood behind fewer arrows."
Google+ Headaches: What You Need to Know
BYTE’s Steve Krause tracked down Google+ pain points--so you can avoid headaches with the new social service.
Acquia Raises $15 Million, Plans Drupal Sales Push
The specialist in commercial support for open source content and community management will use the money to gain share in the social software market.
Capgemini's New Outsourcing Play: Social Media Management
International services firm offers labor, expertise for managing social media as a customer channel.
What Keeps Google Awake at Night?
Google+ Commentary by Gina Smith and teamBYTE members.
2 Ways SMBs Make Social Pay: Development, Recruiting
Your company may have thousands of likes and followers, but what's that worth? For social projects with proven ROI, think recruiting and referrals.
Verint Buys Vovici, Marries Survey, Social Data
Can now combine call center monitoring, social listening, and structured surveys in Voice of the Customer platform.
Tools To Help Analyze Mountains Of Social Data
Big data tools can help analyze and find value in large data sets generated by social media.
How To Transfer Photos from Facebook to Google+
It's easy to move your photos from FaceBook to Google+
Marc Canter: My Life As a Social Network
Macromedia co-founder and BYTE video columnist Marc Canter knows social networks -- because he was there first.
Microsoft To Launch Social Networking Site?
Leaked "Tulalip" project may be a response to Google+, but for now Redmond is playing it coy.
Preview: Google+ Mobile
The Google+ Mobile App for Android is surprisingly mature at this stage of the game.
The BYTE That COIT Built
How the consumerization of IT worked for BYTE.
Google Elevates Summer Heatwave
Google's success with consumers should cause businesses to take note. Android, Chromebook, and Google+ all have potential to disrupt enterprise IT, and possibly in very good ways.
Google News Gets Gamified
Social elements are popping up throughout Google's services, and Google is encouraging its users to open up and share more.
4 Things IT Can Do To Embrace Social Networking
Even if your organization has a social media policy and you're an engaged IT leader, it will take several iterations to get this right.
BrainYard News Briefs: Yammer And Badgeville
Better SharePoint integration, Windows Phone app coming to Yammer. Gamification company BadgeVille raises $12 million.
How Cloud Collaboration Boosts Efficiency
HyperOffice focuses on simple task management and email integration. Here’s how one SMB uses the hosted collaboration suite to meet Fortune 500 expectations.
Should Enterprise Software Be Just Like Facebook?
Enterprise social networks are often adopted to be "like Facebook for our company." But there are a few Facebook characteristics you shouldn't be so quick to imitate.
Google Booming: Strong Earnings Easily Beat Estimates
Never mind the record quarterly revenue, CEO Larry Page is "super excited" that Google+ has surpassed 10 million users.
Wordpress Customization Gets Easy
Platform Pro brings drag-and-drop simplicity to laying out and configuring a unique Wordpress website.
5 Steps To Google+ Compliance
Your business can gain the benefits of social media marketing and collaboration without risking a compliance nightmare. Here's how.
Social Shopping Comes To Enterprise IT
Spiceworks adds a request for quote feature to its online community for IT managers.
MicroStrategy Follows On Cloud, Pioneers Social Insight
The independent business intelligence and analytics vendor trails IBM and SAP on cloud deployment, but it appears to be blazing its own trail on social network analysis.
Overthrowing Apple: The Web Leads To Freedom
Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins urges developer-serfs to cast off their chains.
Harte-Hanks Targets Social Sales Leads
As more enterprises embrace social tools, data provider Harte-Hanks adds social media as category of spending it tracks and sales leads it sells.
Avaya Integrates Social Media, Contact Center Products
Want to track a social complaint just as if it came in via the phone or any other channel your business uses?
How SMBs Can Embrace The Social Intranet
Part data repository, part social media platform, software such as ThoughtFarmer turns businesses into thriving communities.
BPM Adds Social Collaboration To Streamline Human Interaction
By building skills profiles into the system, OpenText’s Metastorm lets employees route tasks to the people most capable of handling them.
Batchbook Gives SMBs Social Business Control Panel
For small business focused on toilet training cats, BatchBook provided simple, streamlined, social contact and opportunity manager.
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
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