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Product Review of Digimind Social: Sources, Content, Analysis & Display Options
19th February 2014
Digimind Social covers over 200 countries and over 40 languages for all social media monitoring analysis, benchmarking and mentions features. Sentiment analysis is available for 12 languages. In the second part of her review Aileen Marshall finds the unique "potential audience" feature allows analysts to more accurately identify which media has the biggest impact on which market.
Social Technologies: Communicating Value through Storytelling
18th February 2014
Telling stories is an integral part of human culture, and has been a means of passing information, knowledge and teachings from individual to individual, generation to generation since time immemorial. Azfarul Islam identifies how stories can be used to capture and express value in the modern social enterprise, and how they can be a means for eliciting buy-in and augmenting adoption of enterprise collaboration instead of hypothetical use cases.
Product Review of Digimind Social: Introduction, Value & FreePint's View
18th February 2014
Aileen Marshall introduces Digimind Social, a social media monitoring product that allows customers to discover and analyse trends in real time. The first part of her review provides an overview and product highlights. Marketers and social media analysts use Digimind to measure the impact of digital marketing campaigns.
What to Expect from Intranets in 2014
17th February 2014
We're in the early months of 2014 and the predictions around how collaboration, digital workplaces and intranets will develop continue to come thick and fast. James Mullan has written a number of articles about intranets and what they may or may not look like in the future, here he looks at emerging intranet themes, including open source, personalisation, navigation and blurred lines.
Mining for Knowledge Management Nuggets
13th February 2014
James Mullan examines what knowledge managers can learn from the "sandbox" game Minecraft where users are encouraged to be creative and learn from their mistakes as they survive and thrive through gathering resources. Should KM professionals spend more time proactively collecting knowledge instead of focusing on fulfilling research requests or specific outcomes?
Capco's Bespoke Collaboration Platform for Knowledge Sharing
12th February 2014
The need for connectivity and knowledge-sharing amongst a geographically diverse workforce proved a difficult challenge to overcome for Capco. Eventually, a bespoke tool called CapInTouch, crafted by one consultant, became one of the key business tools by which the organisation now communicates. What truly made a difference in encouraging Capco to embrace CapInTouch was how it brought together individuals and formed communities that were tailored to the user, reflecting the culture of innovation at the heart of the firm.
Facebook - Not Quite So Good for Business, Perhaps
11th February 2014
Facebook may be riding high at the moment, with record revenues and usage, but one study from Princeton University suggests that its user base may be declining. Even if this is overstating the case, Facebook is currently facing legal action over its use of personal data, on which its entire business model is based, at a time of increased public scepticism over advertising and marketing, and a growing recognition by individuals that their personal data is an asset to be managed. Further findings from Florida State University that Facebook has little value to recruiters in predicting job candidates' performance suggest that it is time for a reappraisal of the use of social media generally.
Is There Really an Alternative to SharePoint?
11th February 2014
For many organisations SharePoint has proved itself an invaluable tool for facilitating collaboration and improving the way knowledge and other content is shared. In addition to this SharePoint has also begun to develop its social offering, especially with the purchase and integration of Yammer. Whilst SharePoint has much to offer, many organisations choose not to use SharePoint because of its complexity. So the question is, is there really an alternative to SharePoint?
Source Update February 2014: What's Happening with Eureka.cc and Europresse.com?
7th February 2014
This month's additions and takedowns in Eureka.cc and Europresse.com, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan. Europresse.com is the European version of the Eureka.cc solution.
Source Update February 2014: What's Happening with Factiva?
6th February 2014
This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.
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