Posted in companies, technology on Feb 9th, 2009
The New Zealand Companies Office has been using Facebook for sometime and earlier this year started using Twitter in order to reach the public and give out information about new services. In a Computerworld news story Justin Hygate elaborates on the reason for this.
Posted in companies, information retrieval, technology on Jan 21st, 2009
Although the article is a bit academic and technical it is an interesting read. The authors monitored IBM’s staff blog for three years to trace how information is shared and found within a company . It really discusses the old “knowledge management” issues and looks at the usefulness of corporate blogs for information gathering.
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Posted in online, technology on Dec 17th, 2008
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released the findings of their third report on 14th December. They conducted a survey which asked technological experts to look all the way out to 2020 and predict where technology was going. The major winner was the mobile phone. It makes for interesting reading.
Thanks to Resourceshelf
Posted in companies, technology on Dec 17th, 2008
This report from InformationWeek looks at how a number of companies introduced wikis into the workplace. Mention is made of the ups and downs of doing so – but generally there seems to have been really positive outcomes for all the companies.
Thanks to Resourceshelf
Posted in marketing, technology on Dec 16th, 2008
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses in easy to understand terms, how best to reach customers in the new web 2.0 world. The authors interviewed executives from over 30 companies to see how they were adapting to marketing within the new technology.
There are also links to MIT Sloan Management articles on the same [...]
Posted in small business, technology on Nov 28th, 2008
This press release by New York company AMI Partners looks at the rapidly increasing participation of small businesses in social networking as a way of advertising and promoting themselves. Social networking is being seen as an expedient way, in the current downturn, of keeping in touch with current clients and finding new ones.
Posted in online, technology on Nov 27th, 2008
The Financial Times have recently entered the world of podcasting. By subscribing to the podcasts via Itunes you will be able to listen to recent programmes on a variety of subjects such as digital business, long-term investing, or look through the archives of the FT Money Show, and choose a programme.
Posted in online, technology on Nov 17th, 2008
Biznar (still in beta form) is a free federated search portal for business researchers (searches over a variety of sources including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources). It looks very promising.
Posted in online, technology on Oct 9th, 2008
MSE360 Search is a lovely new search engine. Very clean lines, two boxes, one where you enter your query and the other a drop down menu for choosing country. The results are displayed very clearly in four different categories, images, web results, wikipedia results and blog results. View the entire list by clicking on next set [...]
Posted in online, technology on Jul 30th, 2008
A new publication from IDEA “(a nonprofit organization that recognizes the Internet’s potential to transform the learning process by making information accessible and engaging)”. Published in July 2008 this report pulls together the key findings from surveys which consulted “three different subject groups – nonprofit organizations and cities, web designers and firms, and the general public”.
A [...]
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