Using Social Media In Enterprises
Using social media is new trend that is slowly being adopted by many enterprises and corporations. As technology has enhanced, and improved, more and more people are becoming inter-connected online; and as a result interacting far more often via social media tools. By tapping into such tools, it is possible for businesses to receive quite a number of benefits. This post will consider just what those benefits are, and how a corporation such as the International Geological Congress can implement them.
Of course these approaches works best if the organisation has a dedicated social media team (or employee).
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Corporate Wiki’s
International Geological Congress
Potentially over the next few weeks I will be discussing the International Geological Congress. The International Union of Geological Science encourages the study of geological problems, especially those of world-wide significance, and supports and facilitates international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the earth sciences. The union currently consists of geologists from 120 countries and 46 Affiliated Organisations.
In August 2012 this congress will be held in my home town – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia – and is expected to promote significant amount of tourism, not to mention the benefits of so many scientists coming together for the benefit of mankind (and non-mankind). The … Read the rest
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The ROI of “2.0″ Projects
Prior to implementing any new technology – or undertaking a project – a company will want to know the potential return on investment (ROI) to ensure the benefits will outweigh the cost. After all, very few organisations will operate under a deficit. But just how do enterprises determine the ROI of implementing web 2.0 technologies? This post will analyse ways that ROI can be calculated for productivity and efficiency, knowledge, reputation, staff engagement, and so forth.
Productivity and Efficiency
A benefit of implementing and utilising particular web 2.0 technologies is that working teams can become far more effective and innovate.
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Legal Risks for Businesses Integrating Social Media
Although not an entirely new concept, social media has started to become significantly noticed within all industries – no matter the organisational size. As more and more companies are turning to the internet to advertise their products and services they beginning to use more than just Google Adwords to advertise: Facebook and Twitter have the power to reach millions of people, targeted by the power of retweeting (at no cost to the business) and groups (such as followers and hashtags on Twitter).
In most cases a business will hire an employee to be the social media manager, someone who will … Read the rest
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Benefits and Risks of Enterprise 2.0
In previous posts we have discussed how to create a successful blog and how businesses (even you!) can use crowd-sourcing to source cheap or free labour and maximise the potential of any product you provide. What we have not yet considered is what risks pose a business functioning online; can the benefits outweigh the detriments?
Operating for 116 years, IBM is one of the world’s most successfully companies – practically everyone has heard of them. Lesser known is the company’s integration of social media (such as blogs, Twitter and Facebook). However the company’s move towards encouraging employee’s to share via the internet … Read the rest
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Crowd Sourcing in Enterprises
Businesses often use the internet as a means of advertisement and marketing. More and more businesses are turning to the internet – and the people now accessible over the internet – to source solutions; improve products, services and advertising; and increase profit. These businesses are utilising what is known as crowd sourcing. This post will analyse what crowd sourcing is, how it is used, and how you can use it yourself.
What is crowd sourcing?
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary (2011), crowd sourcing is “the practice whereby an organization enlists a variety of freelancers, paid or … Read the rest
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How to Create a Successful Blog
As many of my readers may know, I am still a university student. A fledging in a world of long-time practicing professionals. Yet that does not mean that I lack experience, nor do I lack the ability to part with my knowledge. In today’s post I will be reflecting upon what makes a “successful” blog, and how any other “fledglings” can start their own.
What makes a successful blog?
Blogs can be considered successful in a variety of ways – depending on the aims of the creator (note that a creator isn’t always the author of content found on such … Read the rest
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New Commenting System
Over the last few days I have been implementing the Disqus commenting system across all my websites (KatSkinner.com and Des a Dev). As a result there will be some temporary styling issues with the commenting areas, but do note that as soon as I get time I will be fixing this.
Why did I change the commenting system?
There are a number of reasons for my move from the traditional WordPress commenting system to the Disqus commenting system; mainly the reasons are:
- Improved security and administration,
- Integrating across a number of social networks,
- Integrating commenting and user accounts
Lightweight Models and Cost Effective Scalability
A growing trend within the web development industry is utilizing light-weight models and cost effective scalability. But what does that mean exactly, and how can the everyday web developer capitalize on this?
Introducing Frameworks
Frameworks, sometimes also called Content-Management-Systems, can really take the load off a developer. Most often these frameworks will have pre-packaged, and pre-enabled, content that is either ready to be called in your own scripts, or is already running in the background.
The framework Ruby on Rails (more a language than framework really), does exactly this.
Ruby on Rails has functionality such as Ajax pre-built, ready to be called through what … Read the rest
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