Linking LinkedIn to your intranet
24th February 2012

Earlier this week LinkedIn announced that it was considering developing an intranet service for businesses. This won't come as a surprise to many people and is certainly a good move by LinkedIn as it will build on the work that many organisations have been doing with social networking tools internally. One of the main ideas behind an internal social network is to try to foster communication between employees and encourage an open and collaborative environment with the hope that individuals will feel more motivated

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Enterprise microblogging solutions offer a private place for open communication
23rd February 2012

The popularity of Twitter, with its fast, easy way of communicating with the masses, caught on quickly bringing microblogging to the social media spotlight. However, the ability to communicate via Twitter may not be adequate for enterprise communications. Enter enterprise microblogging solutions.

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Who is the publisher? When the enterprise becomes a publisher
22nd February 2012

At the conclusion of this year's FreePint Research: Enterprise Market for Mobile Content 2012, I make the case for today's (and tomorrow's) enterprise organisations to rethink themselves as aggregators and publishers, even more than licensors and acquirers of content...

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Who influences the influencers? Visualising Twitter
22nd February 2012

Visualising Twitter networks is one way to help verify social media sources and pull presentable data out of the noise. But how do you go about doing it? Sam Martin has written up a great case study to help you learn.

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Rating the raters? Follow the meerkat!
21st February 2012

There’s a wildly popular advertising campaign in Britain at the moment featuring talking Russian meerkats (no – really!) encouraging consumers to compare financial services. Now the European Commission seems to be taking a leaf from the meerkats’ book by setting up its own comparison site for credit rating agencies – which currently seem to be harried on every side.

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One all in NLA/Meltwater copyright battle
21st February 2012

The battle continues over whether commercial customers should pay for online news, with news aggregator Meltwater taking the latest ruling to the Supreme Court. In a new twist, Meltwater itself may face charges over content.

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Opfine: "Real-time" financial, company and market sentiment: Part 2
21st February 2012

In Part 1 of this article, I provided a general overview of Opfine (http://www.opfine.com) and its features. In this part, I look at product highlights and sentiment capabilities.

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The social intranet - white paper, case study, webinar and a PR stunt
21st February 2012

The so-called "social intranet" has been the next-big-thing for years. Over the last few days a white paper, a case study, a webinar and a PR stunt on the topic have all caught my eye.

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SharePoint 2010 do's and don'ts
21st February 2012

According to a recent webinar I took part in, 70% of organisations in the Western world have adopted SharePoint. Is the organisation you work in one of those, or are you one of the 30% who are still considering whether SharePoint is a tool that you could use?

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The VIP LiveWire has moved
20th February 2012

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