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Tag: noreen seebacher
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Politics Are Taking a Toll on Workplace Productivity: Here's What to Do
The best digital workplace technologies are apparently no match for the fear, anxiety, anger and other politically inspired emotions fueled by what is arguably a world gone mad.
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Customers Aren't Worried About Data Breaches [Infographic]
Here's good news for every company that's careless with personally identifiable information: Your customers apparently don't care. A new study by global IT association ISACA shows that consumers haven’t changed their shopping behaviors despite a year of retail data breaches — worrisome, the organization maintains, especially with the shopaholic
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Gartner Tries to Protect Its Magic Quadrants
Gartner really doesn't want to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding its Magic Quadrant (MQ) reports. The research firm is challenging many of NetScout's requests for information about its business practices, processes and internal review procedures involving the MQ reports.
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Discussion Point: Creating Long Distance Collaboration and Teams
You may not like everyone who works in your physical office. But at least you know people well enough to have reasons to dislike them. After all, you spend eight or more hours together every day.
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Obama, the FCC and 2 Perspectives on Net Neutrality
The White House and President Obama dropped the hammer on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday, pressuring the FCC to introduce rules that would strengthen protection of the "Net Neutrality" concept for consumers.
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Hell on Deals, Vamp Attacks and Frightfully Good Marketing
Mike Kercheval, president and CEO of the International Council of Shopping Centers, said this week that consumers have become more and more be”witch”ed with Halloween. According to an ICSC survey, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of US households plan to spend money on costumes, candy, decorations and Halloween-related items this year.
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Discussion Point: What's the Big Problem With Big Data? [Video]
Ask 100 people to define big data and you'll get 100 answers, including no answers at all. In theory, big data can help organizations make decisions faster, easier and more accurately.
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Lost Your Phone? You're Probably a Guy [Infographic]
Let's talk about the documented, somewhat scientific finding that men can be much more irresponsible than women when it comes to losing their electronic devices. That's the conclusion from TeamViewer, a provider of remote control and online meetings software.
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'Lizard Squad' Targets Sony in New DDoS Attack
Today brought more hacker woes for Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Network in the form of a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a vandal collective known as "Lizard Squad.
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How to Build Company Culture - and Keep Great Employees
That was back in 2006, before Suleman transformed what he describes as "one of the worst places to work" to one of the best.
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Googlebot Imposters Attack, Hack and Spam Your Site
According to new research released today by Incapsula, a web security firm, millions of these “evil twins” are used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attacks, hacking, spam, content theft and other shady activities on a daily basis.
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Cloudwords Offers New Solution for Global Marketers
Marc Benioff-backed Cloudwords is continuing its quest to help global marketers manage multi-lingual content. The cloud-based translation management application today announced Campaign Manager, an enterprise-ready solution designed to help marketers "plan, execute and track" the localization and translation of marketing content for global campaigns. Benioff, the CEO of salesforce.com
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Here's Why You Should Take Good Care of Your Customers
Competition for customers is heating up — or as London-based Ovum, a global research firm, puts it, "hotting-up." Colloquialisms aside, the fight for customers appears to be kicking into high gear. And the reason is clear.
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Smoke, Fire and American Apparel: Avoiding Social Mistakes
Absent a viral video, strategically planned marketing campaign or the spontaneous heroism of an employee, a global cacophony of disturbing tweets can mean only one thing. Somebody screwed up. Somebody said or wrote or posted something racist, sexist, ageist, insensitive, political incorrect or, perhaps worst of all, simply stupid.
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