Tag: Social Networks

Business Value of Social Computing (I)
Business Value of Social Computing (I)
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Hello there! I’d like to start a new series of posts where I want to highlight and demystify the benefits of introducing and extending enterprise social networks (ESN) in companies. There is a lot of material online about the social networks, with diverging and even contradictory findings. I would like to present a summary of the most important points that link social networks and business. I will not talk about a specific technology such as Beezy or Yammer or SharePoint, but about the underlying business value.

Social Networks and New Technology Paradigms
Social Networks and New Technology Paradigms
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In the previous articles we saw that process innovation declined with the wise definition of crowd sourcing and collective intelligence is a very important lesson learnt from Social Network even more considering the new conversation patterns between user and systems enforced by context aware application, but what we can learn from implementation of such systems, which are the insights we can capture? Is there anything that can consider in our daily business? Can we run another trip over some common social networks features and consider the correspondents in our daily business? Let’s continue the journey with our new friend FourSquare using it as our playground to play and explore its technical features and we’ll see whether we can get inspired.