Social shopping sites ringing up sales.
Amazon figured out social shopping and e-comm - social e-commerce - a long time ago. They made it easy for consumers (aka prosumers) to make recommendations, write reviews and then share the information with other users. Although, I am not surprised that these ideas failed to catch on with most businesses. Interestingly, most businesses today are missing out on web 2.0 too.
Sorting out social software, community platforms, content management..
Collaborative Tools - Web 2.0 - Social Networking Software - Community Platforms - Social Commerce - Content Management.
Social applications fill in the gaps that traditional business strategies, rigid IT software, and static web sites fail to address.
How many times a day does - What do you think - get asked? Who's asking? Your customers, your employees, your suppliers, your kids, your friends, strangers, the media, colleagues. It seems everybody wants to know what you think.
Web 3.0, RDF, and the Semantic Web.
RDF is a W3C standard for modeling and sharing distributed knowledge based on a decentralized open-world assumption.
Students at LIAFA University in Paris partnered with a team at Orange Labs to analyze Flickr (a web 2.0 application) using data from 2006. They produced this paper.
Web 2.0, Communites, and Business Processes.
The original ideas behind web 2.0 communities were about openness and abundance. The ability for members to freely exchange information. Most CMO's and business managers rely on web analytics - they look at quantitative data - to make decisions. CMO's should be changing their thinking about value. Rarely do they have a feel for the qualitative information.
Web 2.0 And How To Sabotage A Business.
Thanks to David Weinberger for his post on the enterprise 2.0 conference.
Social media pollution. The social media thing has tunned in to a joke. There's so much noise and spam from the so-called experts as well as any goofball that calls h/self a consultant that almost all of the promised benefits are lost. Hey, I got rid of my rss reader - gave up reading all of about 6 blogs - almost two years ago. I don't go near twitter.
That's right. Death sells. There is a definitive link between death and consumer behavior according to a study by Professor Naomi Mandel and co-author, Dirk Smeesters of the Rotterdam School of Management.
Unprepared for business disruption?. ''Nearly two-thirds of respondents [CIO's] say their organizations are at risk from information- and technology-based disruption. Ranking highest among disruptive forces are potential shifts in customer expectations for better products or differentiated services enabled by information- and technology-based capabilities.
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