Give Enterprise Apps a Social Life
Amidst the buzz of social, mobile and cloud, many critical enterprise systems feel like old and ugly stepsisters. What’s worse, their feet don’t fit the shiny glass slippers that enamor our users....
View ArticleSales Enablement Goes Social [Infographic]
It has been amazing to watch business functions evolve as the ‘social’ wave continues to make a splash (check out the The Path to Social Englightenment Infographic). One of the hot trends we’re...
View ArticleBuilding External Communities: It’s Not The “Field Of Dreams”
“If you build it, he will come.” – ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) in Field of Dreams I’m sure many of you are familiar with this line – one of the most quoted lines...
View ArticleUser Adoption Strategy – Thoughts on Groups and Spaces
I’ve been a Jive user for about 3 years now, and involved in the Jive Community since 2008. As we’ve all seen, one of the recurring topics in the community is how to increase user adoption. Like...
View ArticleI’ve Got Data! Now What Do I Do With It?
Why is measurement such a difficult topic in social business? Is it because we don’t know what questions to ask to determine what we should measure? When we started our social business journey, we had...
View ArticleCommunity Monetization and Other Lessons Learned from the Demise of Myspace
The community site I manage is an externally facing one whose primary business value is customer acquisition and loyalty. However, as our CEO is fond of saying, “We are not a charity,” so driving...
View ArticleSocial Media Q&A with Jive’s Deirdre Walsh & Megan Cynaumon of Quest Software
Jive Social Media Monitoring Helps Quest Software Increase their Social Reach by 90% Jive recently introduced a new member of our social media monitoring app family, called Fathom. It’s available for...
View ArticleDoes Your Company Have 178 Social Media Accounts?
178 WOW – that’s big. I have to say I was surprised when I read that in Matt Wilson’s recent article from Ragan Communications. According to a recent report from the Altimeter Group that’s the average...
View ArticleEnterprise Collaboration: Debunking Common Misperceptions
As social business software becomes entrenched on the enterprise scene, now would be a good time to put to rest some common misperceptions and myths that have hung ominously over the space. Myth #1:...
View ArticleNice "Tie", Prometheus!
Prometheus gave mankind fire. Actually, Prometheus playing a trick on Zeus forced Zeus to withhold fire. “My bad.” said Prometheus and he retrieved fire back for mankind. His reward – bound to a rock...
View ArticleSocial Learning and Knowledge Management Lifecycles Combine
Very interesting book called “Too Big to Know” which talks about the impact of social technology on knowledge. We are early in creating our Social Intranet and are only just discovering the unique...
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