Rich media flood pushes digital asset management strategy to forefront
Trying to locate a specific video or image from among more than 100,000 digital assets spreadacross 17,000 electronic folders can easily become an exercise in frustration. That was a commonoccurrence at Messer Construction Co. before it implemented a digital asset management strategy in2010. Although digital content such as photographs, drawings and videoswere…
Japanese Learn to Mind Their Business for Others
TOKYO, Mar 02 (IPS) – After two decades of economic stagnation and serial natural disasters, a growing number of young Japanese believe social entrepreneurship is the best way to rebuild their society. Masami Komatsu (37) is one of them. He founded his investment company Music Securities in 2001, a few years However, Music…
IBM aiuta McDonald’s per la social collaboration
Il software per il social business di IBM e stato scelto da McDonald’s Sudafrica, parte della catena leader mondiale di servizi di ristorazione, per sfruttare la convergenza di social media, mobile computing e cloud computing. Agevolare l’espansione in nuovi mercati e consentire ai suoi dipendenti di collaborare in modo piu…
IBM Connect Comes To You 2013 (voorheen Lotusphere)
Het jaarlijkse IBM Collaboration evenement is weer achter de rug: IBM Connect in Orlando. Hier niet bij kunnen zijn? Silverside en IBM brengen u het laatste nieuws over Notes, Connections en Sametime. Het grootse IBM Collaboration evenement ter wereld, Connect 2013, was eind januari weer in Orlando. Met een uitgebreid Datum:…
Global public cloud services market to reach $131bn in 2013: report
Cloud advertising captured the highest market share in cloud services market The global public cloud services market is anticipated to rise 18.5% in 2013 to reach $131bn, according to a new report from Gartner. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which includes cloud compute, storage and print services was the fastest-growing segment of…
Women take on ‘sexist tech industry’
Wellington, Mar. 1 (ANI): Nerd Girls – a networking group for women who work with IBM’s Lotus software – is encouraging change in the way women are perceived across the industry. According to the group, women in IT face challenges that are ‘in your face’, alternatively subtle, or barely noticed by…
What could possibly go wrong?
Pilot fish gets a message from a user: There’s an automated email she’s supposed to get every day, and for the past couple days it hasn’t shown up. "I looked into it," says fish. "I soon realized nobody had been getting certain emails generated by the data warehouse system for…
White House internship reveals promise of social business
Laura Mueller-Soppart, now on co-op with Massachusetts’ Federal Grants Management Office, a division of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, realized the potential for social enterprise to create powerful change while working on the Obama administration’s Domestic Policy Council. Photo by Brooks Canaday. Plenty of college students have that…
Unified Communications Expo to host Cisco
London, 27 February 2013: Unified Communications Expo sponsor Cisco will highlight the value of a unified workspace strategy, bringing together social, collaboration, cloud and video solutions in a comprehensive programme of seminars taking place in the Social Business & Collaboration theatre. In addition, the company will host a number of Sessions taking…
The Case for Collaboration
There is an interesting article in the New York Times this morning that I hope lots of people read that means you Mr. Benioff. It’s a tale of a shoemaker’s kids going barefoot. It seems that Yahoo, trying to breathe life back into a sclerotic organization, has cancelled its work…