How To Protect Your Small Business From Social Media Pitfalls

While more small businesses are using social media, not all of them are using it wisely. Social-media use by small businesses with fewer than 100 employees surged from 44% to 53% this year, according to the SMB Group’s 2012 Small and Medium Social Business Study. Businesses need to take a strategic approach to avoid…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 6:00 pm

Gimmal to Launch ERP-Link Suite for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013 at the 2013 …

Shipment and installation of this new support for Microsoft SharePoint 2013 has already begun for Gimmal customers around the globe, including the world’s leading CPG company. Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 31, 2013 Gimmal, the world’s leading provider of enterprise information governance solutions built on Microsoft SharePoint, is pleased to announce the General Availability…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 6:00 pm

Fighting poverty with social business

On co-op with a nonprofit microfinance organization in the Dominican Republic, third-year student Juan Pena Salas helped impoverished villagers start their own small businesses. Venezuela-born Northeastern student Juan Pena Salas completed a Dialogue of Civilizations program in the Dominican Republic and then stayed for another five months, continuing his humanitarian…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 6:00 pm

Fortune 500 Companies Take Advantage of Unified Communications Internally

Social media have reached worldwide users with personal accounts but also business accounts. Social networks are utilized for marketing to boost brand presence. Also, they work as channels where businesses can communicate with customers online. There are the likes of Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger which allow engagement wherever and…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 1:00 pm

PROFI AG setzt auf Social und Mobile Business

"Shareconomy" heisst das Leitthema der diesjaehrigen CeBIT, 5. bis 9. Maerz in Hannover, und bildet auch eines der zentralen Momente im Portfolio der PROFI Engineering Systems AG. Das Darmstaedter Systemhaus sieht fuer die neue Form der Zusammenarbeit sowohl innerhalb von Unternehmen als auch im Geschaefts- und Endkundenbereich grosses Potenzial. "Fuer In Halle…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 1:00 pm

At IBM Connect, IT execs talk about betting on enterprise social

Those are some of the problems that IT and business leaders at large organizations continue to face with their enterprise collaboration and communication platforms, although these systems have been around for more than 20 years. However, with ESN (enterprise social networking) software, which attempts to adapt consumer social media capabilities for…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 1:00 pm

Cisco CITEIS Delivers Elastic Infrastructure Services

Cisco is well known as the world’s largest networking vendor, but it’s important to remember that Cisco is also a consumer of IT services as well. How does Cisco provision and provide IT to its own staff? That’s where the Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure (CITEIS) effort comes into play. Michael…

Posted on: February 2, 2013 8:00 am

How one IT department turned Google Apps enemies into advocates

The key to one company’s successful shift from Lotus Notes to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps was recruiting a group of power users–many of whom initially opposed the change–to become advocates for Google Apps among their co-workers, writes Matt Weinberger in a case study at CITEworld. The 2009 migration was motivated Google…

Posted on: February 1, 2013 6:00 pm

Will you watch Super Bowl XLVII in 4K Ultra HD?

The following post by Shahi Ghanem is an Op-Ed response to "4K UHD Needs Big Pipes, Not a Pipe Dream." The Dawn of Ultra HD This year’s International Consumer Electronics Show was dominated by the rollout of Ultra High Definition TVs (UHD). These new TVs are capable of rendering content…

Posted on: February 1, 2013 6:00 pm

Epilio Announces It Will Resell ilink Telephony Solutions

, Epilio today announced it has become an authorized reseller of the ilink Kommunikationssysteme GmbH suite of communication solutions, including TeamCall Audio Conferencing and iOffice Communicator for IBM Sametime Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) January 29, 2013 Orlando, FL & IBM Connect 2013, 28th Jan 2013 At the annual IBM Connect conference, Epilio today announced "With our…

Posted on: February 1, 2013 6:00 pm