Articles
Channel: Social Business
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To Post or Not to Post? Social Media for Small Business
Because most of the world now is online, smaller and growing companies have the unique opportunity to reach wider audiences through social media.
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Salesforce Fumes as Microsoft Clears Final Hurdle in $26.2B LinkedIn Deal
Editor's note: Microsoft and LinkedIn announced on Dec. 8 that the acquisition had officially closed. Microsoft's pending $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn is expected to close in a matter of days.
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Migrating from One Community Platform to Another? No Sweat
Different reasons can spur the decision to move from one community platform to another, but one thing remains constant — this migration is unlike other migrations.
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The Smoke and Mirrors of Enterprise Social Networking Metrics
Carrie Basham Young issued an ominous warning to enterprise social network community managers in her 2013 CMSWire article. “It’s time to realize that the metrics and data displayed to you inside your analytics dashboard aren't creating value, and in fact, might be causing you harm," she wrote.
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Avoid the Headaches: Your Community Migration Playbook
In a few short years communities have transformed from a misunderstood and undervalued tool to a strategic part of a company. During those ensuing years, many organizations have successfully deployed communities to replace legacy portals, extranets and intranets to serve either — or both — internal and external audiences.
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How Intranets Help Fight Corporate Amnesia
The phrase "knowledge is power" has become such a cliché, it's easy to dismiss its truth. We sometimes forget just how crucial knowledge is for culture, society and, of course, business. Accumulated organizational knowledge is called corporate memory.
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Striking a Balance in Our Tech-Obsessed World
Many of us joke that we are “addicted” to our phones and digital worlds. But internet addiction is a real thing and many of us might need to take the need for our devices, and our desire to check in with social networks no matter what, more seriously. The Struggle Is Very Real A recent
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Massively Parallel Societies
These past centuries many of us have been led to believe that it was great individuals who did great things. Yes, great people do great things, but they could do very little without societies, past and present.
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How Social Can Transform Your Employee Engagement Strategy
Your employees are on social media. You can’t stop them and, frankly, you don’t want to. Instead, provide them with relevant information to share via social media and you’ll reap the rewards. In fact, according to a study by Bambu by Sprout Social, three in four employees want to
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Amplement Pegs Itself as David to LinkedIn's Goliath
Just when it feels like we have enough collaboration tools, another application wants to take on the market to change the way people work. Hailing from Boulogne-Billancourt, France, collaboration application Amplement launched this month in the US and boasts almost 10,000 US-based customers and another 500,000 in France.
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Moving from Google Search Appliance? The Time is Now
Earlier this year, Google announced it will be winding down sales of its Google Search Appliance (GSA) through 2017 and will ultimately transition from on-premises to a cloud-based solution. But the full details of a cloud-based solution are still in limbo.
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LinkedIn: Naps & Beer Won't Solve Corporate Talent Shortages
What does it take to become an attractive tech company today? Ping-pong tables, beer taps and nap pods, right? Not so much, according to Suzy Welch, business journalist and TV commentator. People give those perks “outsized importance when trying to figure out what makes one company stand apart from another," she
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How to Pull Off a Stress-Free Office 365 Migration
The idea of migrating to Microsoft Office 365 might seem daunting, especially if you don’t have a clear understanding of the platform and its many capabilities. For example, a client recently asked, "When I move to Office 365, I'll get my own server, right?" Well, no.
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The Slow Evolution of Email in SharePoint 2016
There are many layers to Microsoft's vision for enterprise collaboration, including roles for SharePoint and Office 365. But email and the email applications in Office 365 arguable remain some of the most essential in spite of the overall evolution of the company's various collaboration platforms such as Yammer.
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