Zappos gets savvy with social media
As a fast-growing online retailer of shoes and other apparel, Zappos.com is a power player when it comes to using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to engage with existing and potential customers. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has nearly 1.3 million followers on Twitter, and the company's official Facebook page has almost 21,000 fans.
The Internet Devalues Everything It Touches
The column by Tom Foremski entitled The Internet Devalues Everything It Touches takes a fascinating look at many of the issues faced by companies in this connected age. If you're in any type of “white collar” business, the Internet either has caused big changes to your operations or it soon will.
VoIP Now Voice Over Internet Plumbing
I've never liked the acronym VoIP because it sounds so stupid out loud (vo-eep). But alas, the world yet again ignored my suggestions. Now I will try to recast the acronym to at least mean something much closer to the perception of many in the VoIP business: VoIP is now just phones over different plumbing, and no longer a Big Deal.
Intel joined Goole fight against Apple plans to SNS
In the Web 2.0 Summit, the world's largest manufacturer demonstrated corporate social networks and more personalized features of the Internet.
How Business can Help IT Deliver 'Real Value' to the Business
Organisations need to change their focus from being functionally driven to being process driven to be really successful in their adoption of BPM. This is not always as hard as it first sounds. Most of the organisational and technical building blocks almost surely already exist within the organisation in some form or other.
The Internet Devalues Everything It Touches
VoIP Now Voice Over Internet Plumbing
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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