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Social media marries big data at wedding retailer

Posted February 26, 2013 - 3:10 pm

David's Bridal uses data from its social shopping community, where the bride-to-be shares plans with the wedding party, to tie the knot with customers
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IBM eyes mobile, social add-ons for mainframe

Posted February 25, 2013 - 7:18 am

IBM is looking to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive.
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Facebook engineers identify Graph Search's big data challenges

Posted February 21, 2013 - 6:01 pm

Facebook’s engineers have many challenges ahead of them as they work to scale up Graph Search, the site’s new social search tool. One stumbling block: an over-abundance of data to sift through.
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LinkedIn revamping Jobs tool to open more doors for workers

Posted February 19, 2013 - 12:32 pm

LinkedIn has some good news for job seekers. It is making it easier to find and get jobs using the online professional networking service.
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NewsGator plans to uncouple its enterprise social suite from SharePoint

Posted February 12, 2013 - 12:09 pm

NewsGator is re-architecting its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) suite so that it can be installed independently of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server.
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Senior living communities connect with social networking

Posted February 11, 2013 - 12:42 pm

IT leaders can't always measure a project's success by revenue or cost-saving metrics. Brookdale Senior Living's CIO achieved a greater objective by bringing social networking to its communities' residents: It improved their lives.
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Highly regulated companies tiptoe into social media

Posted February 11, 2013 - 12:20 pm

Some healthcare providers, financial services firms and other companies in highly regulated industries are taking full advantage of social media, even though they're awash in rules. Here's how they do it.
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At IBM Connect, IT execs talk about betting on enterprise social

Posted February 1, 2013 - 5:48 pm

Executives from 3M, Taco Bell, Fluor and other companies have launched projects to improve collaboration and communication.
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The power of social automation

Posted January 31, 2013 - 2:19 pm

The great thing about modernizing an enterprise application for social computing is that the application can be enhanced in ways that weren't possible when it was brought into the Internet age, for example.
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Enterprise social networking: The how-to guide

Posted January 31, 2013 - 12:07 pm

14 social business case studies.
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Researchers use Twitter to track flu outbreak

Posted January 30, 2013 - 5:14 pm

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track what has been a particularly severe flu season across the U.S.
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How the social campus enables tomorrow's workers today

Posted January 30, 2013 - 2:01 pm

Combine social with mobile and sprinkle in technologies like VPNs and SSO, and the idea of 'social' moves to a whole new level, as two higher education CIOs attest.
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IBM to beef up content management, analytics in Connections enterprise social product

Posted January 28, 2013 - 1:04 am

IBM will launch before mid-year several new and improved collaboration and communication products, including a new suite for human resources tasks and a major upgrade of its Connections enterprise social networking product.
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Talk about big data: How the Library of Congress can index all 170 billion tweets ever posted

Posted January 9, 2013 - 12:12 pm

The Library of Congress has received a 133TB file containing 170 billion tweets -- every single post that's been shared on the social networking site -- and now it has to figure out how to index it for researchers.
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Work it: LinkedIn endorsements explained

Posted January 7, 2013 - 2:34 pm

With a little help from your coworkers and close friends, LinkedIn Endorsements can help you catch the eye of recruiters who are short on time but long on candidates.
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More heads of state are using Twitter, study says

Posted January 2, 2013 - 10:00 am

There were 123 heads of state and governments using Twitter to communicate with citizens and the rest of the world as of December 2012, a think tank said Tuesday.
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Why social networks should be more like Facebook Poke

Posted December 30, 2012 - 9:34 pm

When it comes to Facebook users and their messages, almost nobody knows who can see or share their posts on social networks. And that's a problem that must be fixed, says Mike Elgan.
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What SharePoint 2013 means for the data center

Posted December 24, 2012 - 2:14 pm

Migrating from SharePoint 2010 is doable, but that's not true, unfortunately, from the 2007 version.
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Upcoming Salesforce.com release focuses on Chatter, analytics, Touch

Posted December 24, 2012 - 1:54 pm

Salesforce.com's next product update will feature scores of new capabilities for its core CRM (customer relationship management) application as well as the Chatter messaging and collaboration service.
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Google+ gets full-size photo uploads, low-bandwidth Hangouts and more

Posted December 17, 2012 - 4:33 pm

Google hasn't forgotten about Google+, its fledgling social network. In a big year-end update, the search giant has added several new features, including a way to automatically upload full-size photos from an Android phone.
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Manage all your social-network contacts in Cobook for iOS

Posted December 15, 2012 - 8:05 am

Gone are the days when you kept all your contacts in one place. Nowadays they're probably spread out across not only your address book, but also your social networks.
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6 ways social media affected the enterprise in 2012

Posted December 14, 2012 - 12:32 pm

Social media has changed more than the way companies market and promote themselves. Social networking has also changed the way companies recruit, how they communicate internally and how they handle sensitive data.
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Prevent malware attacks on social networks: 3 tips

Posted December 13, 2012 - 4:42 pm

The FBI has shut down the Butterfly botnet, but others will follow. Heed this advice so you don't become a victim.
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The Year in Review, courtesy of Twitter

Posted December 11, 2012 - 11:01 am

If you're a Tweet-a-holic who loves everything Twitter, you'll love checking out this video, highlighting the year in Tweets.
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Nielsen survey: Social media sucking up most of our time

Posted December 10, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Americans, you are spending every waking minute of your life online--or at least a sizable portion of your days.
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