Metadata Learns Social Cues: Sugarcoating the Tagging Pill by , for

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The signs are unmistakable. Tagging is how we keep our priorities straight and even how we define the contours of our online profiles. Labeling the buckets is finally out of the shadows. These a... read more

"We don't do social media here." Really? by , for

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  I had an interesting discussion last week about social media and governance. The person's perspective was that his organization didn't have to worry about social media governa... read more

Deep flows the River between Social and Business… by , for

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It’s been quite a while since the world has been gripped by the Social Media fever. However, as is the case with any new concept that catches the masses by their eyeballs and wallets, soci... read more

Asking for employees' social media passwords is a really bad idea by , for

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Over the last year there have been a number of reports of employers asking their employees to disclose social media passwords as part of ongoing monitoring of acceptable usage or inappropriate b... read more

Big Data Meets the Search Media by , for

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Big data is one of those instantly graspable buzz terms. The only new ground it breaks is putting a faceless name to purposeful data capture. After all, it's not smog if the data engineers a... read more

Do you trust your Facebook users? Why/why not? by , for

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Lots of organizations still block Facebook and tools like it at the firewall - or at least they think they do (hello, iPad2!). Why is that? What's the difference between networking on Facebo... read more

Open for Social Business ... Open for Social Discussion? by , for

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Who puts in the plumbing on corporate Facebook? Infrastructure-wise we understand that corporate IT are the implementers and early adopters. Culturally, I get that the community manager is charg... read more

2012: Social Business Trends Converge by , for

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For those who have been keeping tabs on the rise of social business in healthcare, McKinsey's 5th annual survey on the way organizations use social tools & technologies finds t... read more

Industry Predictions for 2012 by , for

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Each year I have done industry projections either by myself or with AIIM’s former Emerging Technologies (EmTAG) group.  For the most part the projections involve looking at trends and... read more

Asking for social media usernames and passwords of employees might land you in prison by , for

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(I’m not a lawyer and this is just my personal opinion. Please don't let the big words and nice suit fool you) Have you ever checked out an applicant's Facebook profile? Seen t... read more