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ROI for Social Bookmarking: Very Large Possibilities

Rawn Shah of IBM recently blogged that the IBM enterprise tagging social software saves IBM $4.6 million a year. Like Connectbeam, the enterprise tagging system (ETS) at IBM allows for social bookmarking within the enterprise so I was very interested...
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Links for 2008-08-26 [del.icio.us]

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Visit Our Tvissimo TV Schedule Blog

As I mentioned in my post, TVissimo is a New Free Web Service for Finding Your Favorite TV Shows, I am a partner in a new venture. We are excited about the opportunities that come from bringing you a completely...
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The Sweettt Podcast - Episode 5 - How to Make a Great Podcast

And we keep moving on! As you may have noticed already, over at Sweettt.com, Matt Simpson, co-host along with myself of The Sweettt Show, has just created a blog post a few hours ago, where he is sharing the next episode from our podcasting series on the topic of "How to Make a Great Podcast". [...]
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Social tools are not immune to being used the wrong way

In a few posts I have talked about a support team using blogs (micro-blogs), forums, and wikis to get work done. In regards to blogs the idea is to that we have an unstructured, low barrier to entry type tool to quickly publish fragments about experiences, tips, solutions, ideas…in fact we can publish by email, [...]
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UK PR Firms Missing Digital Opportunity

Study shows almost 80 % have no social media services

It would seem that most UK PR agencies missed the Cluetrain. 

According to a study of 100 major PR firms 79% have not yet developed online PR and social media services.  And half of those that did get the clue are based in London, says the BigMouth Media report. 28% of the London based PR firms offer Internet PR services and 14% of them blog.

"If PR is to properly address the...

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Blog Wars in LALA Land

Now that they lost the NBA finals, Los Angeles is looking for new fronts to brag about. The Silicon Alley Insider recently reported that the Los Angeles Times said that “they logged 127 million page views last month, up 66%...
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[LOTD] JCR in the sky

Storing data within the cloud (formerly known as SaaS, the elderly might even remember ASP) is the latest craze. If you want to jump on that bandwaggon or simply have a lot of files check out Scott Dietrich's Jackrabbit DataStore for Amazon S3. Scott has posted a link to the sources on the Jackrabbit user list.

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Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Week 27 (Easing e-mail Pain with Social Software)

Continuing further with the weekly progress reports on my giving up on e-mail new mantra, I am back at it again, and this time around with a wonderful link from one of my favourite bloggers and KM thought leaders, if I may say so, whose article I am surprised is not getting much more attention [...]
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Releasing the power of networks

Hyperlinks connect content with content.

Social networks connect people with people.

RSS feeds connect people with content.

Together, these technologies can be used to make information flow between people in an organization almost like water flows in a metropolitan water system. They can help people find other people with knowledge, information or ideas that when intersecting with their own spawn new knowledge, value and innovations.

If virtually ...

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Information Management Principle #3: Information needs to flow

The second principle of Information Management says as follows:

There is no value in information which is not – sooner or later – being used. Information that might be of use sooner or later holds a potential value, but that value is not realized until it is actually used for something. Simply put, information is just a means to an end.

To realize this value potential, the information needs to flow. It needs to flow to the people who needs it to ...

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Are You A Turtle on a Fencepost?

Turtles can’t climb rather all they can do is crawl. How can a turtle get on a fence post unless someone helped put them there?  Once propped up on a fence post they also can’t get down, without falling, unless someone helps them down. Like the turtle on the fence post none of us can achieve [...]
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Have You Failed Successfully? Part 1

The word failure usually carries a negative connotation with it. Fear and failure are the usual human reactions to change. However success and failure go hand in hand to those that understand what it takes to succeed at anything, everything.

Failure can have dual reaction. A company or individual can get stuck in the fear of failure and never try anything new to move closer to success. A company or individual can also look at failure as simply a ...