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The release of Twitter Analytics will stop external growth and investment in the Twitter ecosystem. It means that the plethora of businesses (large and small) that have sprung up thanks to the goldmine of real-time data available through social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and yes, even Google+ have one less reason to be. And thousands of less customers to attract. On that list will be everyone from Tweetreach to Hootsuite.
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I wrote earlier this week about Identity and Access Management (IAM) and how it’s important for Infosec (Information Security) to be involved with projects early. The post generated a few comments and some commentary on twitter, mostly from Infosec folks. Some complained I was too harsh on Infosec (I wasn’t) while others worried that I didn’t go into enough depth (I didn’t). In my mind though, it raised the issue of why there is such friction between Infosec folks and the rest of IT.
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My walking was not the fault of the car; the car is great. The car is, however, part of a bleeding-edge ecosystem of apps, charging stations, employer support for sustainability, parking rules, university websites, and my commuting choices. I thought I had followed my own advice to work with all my human, organizational, and technological resources -- but it just wasn’t so.
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Updated from original post January 2013.
I have come to believe that a systemic conceptual shortfall affects typical technologists' thinking about privacy. It may be that engineers tend to take literally the well-meaning slogan that "privacy is not a technology issue". And I say this in all seriousness.
I attribute blind spots to the developers' loose framing of "private" information. [...]
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When I begin working with clients I work to understand what their ambassadors think about them. I look to their customers and suppliers to get a sense of what is working and what is not. But there is no better source of insight than a company’s employees. These are the people who are actively engaging and promoting the company every day. They are the face of the brand and are – in many instances – the custodian of customer experience. If an employee is having a bad day, your brand is likely to feel the impact.
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So, the downloading and use of a Facebook App could create security threats? Who'd have thunk it? Oh, wait...I could, and did right here on Huffington Post.
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This year's SuperNova Award finalists will be announced on August 28, 2014.
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I had the chance to attend VMworld in San Francisco this week, blogged my Day 1 takeaways here, time to blog on the overall impressions of the event.
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I spend a lot of time talking about organizations enabling their employees through the use of mobile. It’s truly the only way to ‘win’ at this game. When you enable your users to be more flexible and agile they become more efficient and productive. What more could you ask for? The question always turns to how do you actually enable your people. You start with the FUN principle (Focus on the Users’ Needs) and you build apps that enable them to do what they need to do, when and where they need it. There are many issues with building apps and if you focus on their needs you get most of the way there. Yet, there is still the fundamental issue when building an app that someone can use it anywhere and at anytime. How do you know who that somebody is?
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On August 21st – during the usually more quiet summer months – Skillsoft announced that it has agreed with the SumTotal owners to acquire the company, bringing together its Learning capabilities with SumTotal’s talent management capabilities.
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I am attending the VMware VMworld user conference held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, with 22000 other participants.
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Forsman & Bodenfors, Ikea’s Swedish agency, has turned to boxed themes to support the distribution of the retail giant’s latest catalogue (pun intended). However, like the popular Ikea Hacks generated by its loyal fans, Ikea’s new marketing effort has combined standard reality TV and sitcom themes to create innovative and captivating YouTube videos targeting Millennials.
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One of the most exciting and interesting projects I came across during my time working with IBM was the digitisation of the Vatican Library. A great humanist project, the Vatican Library was created during the Renaissance when books were literally hand crafted. Scribes, illuminators, binders and printers would work together to create objects that were […]
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Part V of our "Meet the SuperNova Award Judges" series. Let's meet the group of commerce and retail thought leaders that are judging this year's SuperNova Awards. For the latest news on the digital commerce revolution, follow these folks on Twitter! Enjoy!
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Step into the future with our newest Constellation Orbits member, Apala Lahiri Chavan. Today she ponders the role robots will play in the future of customer experience. Is your organization ready for cross-cultural robotics?
Cross cultural robotics involves designing robots such that the user experience of the ‘end user’ mimics the exact interaction they have with another citizen consumer from their own ecosystem.
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Most of us are in the middle of a transformation of some sort in our organizations (and for many of us, in our lives). How can we ensure that we transform? Successfully!
Here are my experiences …
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The charitable donation effort involves participants dumping a bucket of ice water on their heads or donating to the ALS Association. In turn, the participant challenges three friends to donate money to the association or dump a bucket of ice water on their heads within 24 hours.Not unexpectedly, the campaign has also seen the wrath of critics who claim that the campaign has done little to support the cause other than to get people talking about it. Ben Kosinski, a Huffington Post blogger and founder of Sumpto, suggested that the campaign is based on "slacktivism," which isn't helping at all...
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Innovation is revolutionary only when it results in a shift in power. “Disruption” has become such a throwaway term that we forget our society is reshaping itself through power shifts every day. Three stories from this weekend’s New York Times illustrate the point.
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Team Android or Team IOS? Does it really matter?I have to say, I am really tired of this bickering. I have used both, and to be honest, you can be productive on either one of them. I have gone weeks at a time solely using an Android handset or an iOS handset. I’ve survived.Why do we get into these big arguments when it comes to which device we are going to use in the enterprise?
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Get ready for the Internet of Me
Just as the size of mobile phones have collapsed while their power has increased, the same will occur with digital sensors. Just look at the mCube accelerometer that’s only one millimetre across. Accelerometers are the technology that measure movement and vibration. If you have a mobile phone, you have an accelerometer. They are the things that detect that you are picking up the phone, walking or driving (or moving etc) up a hill or down it. They are used in your car to trigger air bags in a car crash – and there are hundreds of other uses.
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Have you heard the news? "Privacy is dead!"
Is it really too late for privacy? Is the "genie out of the bottle"? Even if we accepted the ridiculous premise that privacy is at odds with progress, no it's not too late, for a couple of reasons...
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Part IV of our "Meet the SuperNova Award Judges" series. Today I'll introduce you to the Digital Marketing Transformation judges. Marketing is changing (but you already knew that. I mean, when was the last time direct mail influenced you to make a purchase? Am I right?) and our Digital Marketing Transformation judges know it. This group of thought leaders were among the first to write about the transformative effect of digital on marketing. In today's marketing environment effective marketing means wrapping traditional marketing methods in a combination of digital strategies including: influence, community, social, and analytics.
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We all hear about shadow IT. It’s a scary term, brought up in articles and conversations. It’s defined as people going around the rules and policies of IT or implementing technology outside of IT’s purview. It’s used by a lot of vendors to point out what can be going wrong in a company. Normally they have a tool that allows you to track down shadow IT and get it under control. Anything going on that IT can’t see can’t be good for the company, or so they say. Yet, they couldn’t be more wrong.
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Part III of our "Meet the SuperNova Award Judges" series. Today we meet the Future of Work judges. This group is comprised of the thought leaders and journalists that are revolutionizing the way we think and converse about the concept of "work".
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