Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our Social Business collaborative lab where we engage and explore an ongoing discussion, share thoughts, opinions, and ideas on Social Business.
Social Business Intelligence: Positioning a Strategic Lens on Opportunity
Blog PostRecently I've been tracking the growth of social analytics and the means of delivering well on it. Connecting it to the needs of the business is the next step beyond basics of collating, aggregating, and identifying patterns in what the world is doing that affects your organization. On ZDNet recently, I explored the rapidly growing trend of big data. Collectively, big data represents a set of highly innovative new ways that companies are developing to distill value from the sheer scale, richness, and complexity of today's vast networks of people and their data, of which the Internet is just the biggest example. It is social media in particular, however, where big data and business value intersect.
The Social Business Stack: The Elements
Blog PostTrying to stay up-to-date with the many moving parts of social business can be a full time job today. The technologies, trends, and techniques of social media as applied to business is evolving constantly and moving so quickly that it can be difficult to understand how all the pieces currently fit together. In information technology, we have long used the stack model to break down the description of a complex system into sets of related functions. It's not perfect in that it's a static view, and social business is very dynamic, but it's a good start and lets us achieve some useful intellectual control over the elements of social business and how they relate to each other.
Aggregate or be aggregated
Blog PostContent-based companies must fight to preserve value and most end up living and dying by a simple premise: aggregate or be aggregated.
Curating, Not Moderating, the Flow of Content and Participation
Blog PostOriginally posted on the Headshift blog, Robin Hamman talks about his experiences at the BBC, and curating user-generated content. Using technology from eVectors, Robin and Nik Street developed an example curation site around the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, named ClimatePulse.org.
