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TD Bank gets social for better business

Posted February 8, 2012 - 2:12 pm

When TD Bank Group made a lot of acquisitions a few years ago, executives knew they needed to find a way to help employees span international borders and work together.
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Study finds enterprise 2.0 reaps results

Posted February 7, 2012 - 6:12 am

A report published last week illuminates just how some organizations are using social tools inside and outside their enterprise and what results they’re seeing, and it’s worth a read.
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9 'university researcher approved' tips for awesome Tweeting

Posted February 4, 2012 - 7:36 am

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have issued a list of 9 tips for better tweeting based on a study of Twitter usefulness.
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Wunderkit offers collaborative project management on Mac, iOS

Posted February 1, 2012 - 12:39 pm

Wunderkit -- a collaborative getting-things-done Web-based application for Mac and iOS -- has emerged from beta testing and is available to the public.
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Silicon Valley startups flourish with management 'Snippets'

Posted January 31, 2012 - 12:12 pm

The productivity hack startups use to manage without managers? Short, shared to-do lists.
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U.K. survey: SharePoint users freely ignore security measures

Posted January 19, 2012 - 12:26 pm

Copying documents out of Microsoft SharePoint to less secure media such as email and thumb drives is common among users of the collaboration platform, at least in the U.K.
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Why social tech's real value is inside the business

Posted December 19, 2011 - 1:03 pm

Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way -- and use inside the business is where the most value can be gained.
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Major IT services company tries to boost productivity by ditching e-mail

Posted December 7, 2011 - 7:00 am

E-mail wastes a huge amount of time, according to CEO of IT services company. Want to get him a message? Come talk in person. Or on the phone. Or IM. Or on a private Wiki. Or Facebook. Or...just forget it.
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IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets

Posted December 7, 2011 - 12:04 am

Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile devices.
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Stupid idea: Ban email at huge IT company (Atos)

Posted December 6, 2011 - 3:38 pm

Atos (formerly Atos Origin) has announced that it's abandoning its use of email. Seriously? A $13 billion company that operates in 42 countries is going to stop using email? That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard.
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Cisco goes mobile with collaboration tool updates

Posted November 16, 2011 - 9:13 pm

In an attempt to move beyond the desktop, Cisco is updating two of its enterprise-level collaboration tools.
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Alfresco: An open-source ECM alternative for SharePoint

Posted November 7, 2011 - 2:03 pm

In any business organization, the need to effectively communicate and collaborate in a timely manner is very important. Contending with mobile workers and shifting schedules, many businesses look toward enterprise content management (ECM) systems such as Microsoft's SharePoint. Their purpose is to allow users within organizations to collaborate and share work inside of a commonly accessed website framework.
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Mindjet unleashes creativity with online collaboration tools

Posted September 12, 2011 - 3:44 pm

One of the great things about the Internet, and Web-based tools is that they make the world a smaller place and enable virtual teams to work together remotely. Recent acquisitions and new tools from Mindjet are making cloud-based collaboration even easier and more productive.
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Collaboration's Fragility

Posted September 12, 2011 - 11:06 am

We all want every collaborative effort to be an ideal experience, but we get disasters much more often. Here are some of the obstacles we must overcome.
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MillerCoors goes social to retain female workers

Posted August 31, 2011 - 7:38 am

MillerCoors is using enterprise mentoring and social learning software in an effort to help far-flung female salespeople feel less isolated and more part of a cohesive team.
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Social tools help drug maker fix supply chain

Posted August 23, 2011 - 12:18 pm

Ratiopharm Canada and its new parent company see improvements in service levels and manufacturing cycle times.
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Law firm taps Cisco Quad to unify global workforce

Posted July 25, 2011 - 12:29 pm

Minter Ellison, an Australian law firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and telecommunications law, has been grappling with a question facing many enterprises.
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Drug maker goes social to end supply chain crisis

Posted July 25, 2011 - 5:07 am

Generic drug maker Ratiopharm, now part of Teva Canada, turned to social networking tools to solve communication problems that choked the supply chain and made it difficult to respond to fluctuations in customer demand.
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What's Your Enterprise Social Networking Style?

Posted June 14, 2011 - 2:25 pm

The market for cloud-based enterprise social networking and collaboration suites is crowded both with specialists such as Jive Software, Box.net, Yammer, NewsGator and Zoho, and bigger vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Novell and IBM. Here's how Socialtext is trying to stand out.
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Four ways the Red Sox are scoring with SharePoint

Posted June 8, 2011 - 9:33 am

The Boston Red Sox IT group had been left stranded on base by manual processes that handled ticket requests, invoices and fan mail. But now that they've built an intranet portal using SharePoint 2010 they're speeding towards home.
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Business video: Get ready for the surge

Posted June 7, 2011 - 3:16 pm

Video traffic is expected to grow from 50% of all Internet traffic today to 90% by 2013. In volume that will be equal to transmitting the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs across the network every month.
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IBM touts collaboration tools for large software projects

Posted June 6, 2011 - 9:41 am

IBM kicks off its annual Innovate Conference today with a slew of updated software life-cycle management tools to support software-development teams on a large scale.
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Sony managers could have stopped security disasters by talking to each other

Posted May 26, 2011 - 12:54 pm

Governance, risk assessment and compliance are boring; they're also the processes that let companies deal with the fall of one domino before it brings the whole chain down.
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How we're using SharePoint 2010 to connect our people

Posted April 28, 2011 - 6:31 pm

When you are a company with 500 offices and 15,000 employees, it's easy for people to lose each other, or never meet at all.
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Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?

Posted April 25, 2011 - 7:03 am

Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as whether Cisco will buy EMC, how the iPad might be used at work and how to improve Ubuntu.
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