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Social Networking - the downside
Blog The bane of social networking. You might also think that social networking - blogging, Facebook, and so on - is part of the IT business, and thus similarly constructed. There is one underlying problem with the business of social networking that...
[August 24, 2007, 13:49]
Social PR Research Report - Part One
White Papers The main objective was to determine which PR firms are best attuned to social media and are developing the most beneficial social programs for their clients. It was also designed to determine the answer to, "Is social media even what PR agency...
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
Greatest security risk: Social engineering, says Gartner
News The greatest security risk facing large companies and individual Internet users over the next 10 years will be the increasingly sophisticated use of social engineering to bypass IT security defences, according to analyst firm Gartner.
[November 1, 2004, 7:39]
Ignore Gartner, social networks ARE ready for commerce
Blog Industry researches and analysts Gartner claims with its latest research document, entitled "Top 10 Things Retailers Should Know About Social Networks, and What to Do" that the medium is NOT yet ready for commerce.
[May 9, 2008, 10:50]
Social Services turns to Wi-Fi
News Social workers are using wireless technology to speed up communications on the front line. Barnet Council's Children and Families Service has rolled out PDAs to 240 social workers, O2 said on Wednesday.
[August 31, 2005, 16:30]
Social software: a boon for business?
News Social software such as email, instant messaging (IM) programs, blogs and personal networking services are bridging the gap between the online and offline world, and both business and society can be winners.
[May 30, 2003, 12:17]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Comment Interesting to note that it's 776 office workers, who admitted to spending [at least] 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites! No sign yet of social networking being a resourceful and productive (read: benefit to the bottom line) use of...
[January 22, 2008, 0:08]
Social networks start to charge
News Social networking, a rising Internet trend most famously exemplified by Friendster, is about to meet another online trend -- fees. After months of anticipation, fees for social networking services, which let people create linked networks of...
[January 27, 2004, 13:35]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008. The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social...
[January 21, 2008, 10:44]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Comment Its hard to believe the figure is that high (£6.5B) considering that social networks (in the UK) have only taken off in the last 2 years. The real problem here isn't social networks, rather its boredom from a lack of engaging work and mandane tasks...
[January 21, 2008, 21:19]
Social Security
Blog In this Social 2.0 World we have created, I'm finding it hard to keep track of all my identities scattergunned across the internet, let alone my multitude of Pa55w0rd5, keywords, PINs and security questions.
[September 14, 2009, 12:00]
Social Networking Now Under Big Yellow's Control, Thanks to Bloxx
White Papers Big Yellow was having a problem with employees becoming addicted to Facebook and other social networking sites; visiting them to excess during working hours. Previously, Grinnall tried to use Microsoft ISA Server to manage web access.
[March 10, 2009, 0:21]
Social Media Requirements
White Papers This white paper outlines a process that can be used for the implementation of a B2B social network platform. It also provides social media requirements. Examples could be a partner directory, a way for customers to share applications and best...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Social networking: 3G's killer app?
News Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com, which will soon go mobile, could become key applications driving data usage on new 3G wireless networks. I doubt there will be any single killer application, but social networking on mobile phones...
[April 12, 2006, 11:20]
Social Sciences will become more important than IT to IT departments
White Papers Technology is becoming a fundamentally social medium, bringing employees ever closer together. This Gartner paper from IBM looks at how organisations can harness new social technologies to dramatically raise organizational effectiveness.
[December 7, 2007, 13:10]
Social networking faces an uncertain future
News Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. The Datamonitor report — The future of social networking: Understanding...
[October 19, 2007, 13:22]
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: Social Engineering and Mitigating System Vulnerability (Level 200)
White Papers Most clever technical attacks begin with some assistance from social engineering. This webcast defines social engineering and reviews a number of real-world hacks that began with social engineering efforts.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Social Semantic Search and Browsing
White Papers This presentation discusses motivation, how people search, search and browsing lifecycle, applying semantics and making use of social networks such as keyword-based search, faceted navigation and collaborative filtering.
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
Social Networking Solution for Wireless Communications Provider, Using Agile Methodologies
White Papers The client was looking to assemble a team, which working under the Agile Software Development concept, could easily adapt to its processes and work on the creation of social applications that interface its mobile devices with YouTube, MySpace...
[May 17, 2009, 1:48]
Social CRM Comes of Age
White Papers Since 2003, the impact of the social communications makeover has shifted ownership of the customer/company relationship to control in the hands of the customer - which changes how businesses must respond to that customer.
[September 28, 2009, 14:07]
