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Salesforce release new file sharing feature for Chatter

Last week Salesforce announced that they were buying social bookmarking company Clipboard to allow users to share rich media across devices.They have further...

0 replies - 531 views - 05/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Of course Google takes on Spotify and Pandora — it’s a pay as you go world

Today at Google’s Developer Conference (IO) the crowd was treated to the announcement of Google Play, the brand new service that offers a Netflix-style...

0 replies - 414 views - 05/16/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Can you crowdsource a city?

Crowdfunding has really taken off over the past year, with the likes of Kickstarter building on the work done by the microfinance industry to create a...

0 replies - 457 views - 05/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Why Companies Should Embrace Millenials

Great video from TEDx above. CEO of Hubspot, Brian Halligan, explains how HR is being transformed by the Millennial generation.  He draws a great...

0 replies - 331 views - 05/16/13 by David Austin in Articles

How important are emoticons?

It’s well known that communicating online is not as rich as communicating face to face.  You lack the audio visual clues that come with talking...

0 replies - 167 views - 05/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Can Bonus.ly transform employee incentives?

Employee motivation is one of those issues that seldom seems to go away.  Despite much evidence to the contrary, many organisations persist with...

0 replies - 452 views - 05/15/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Smart Patients provide a community for cancer patients

There is an interesting, and growing, trend of patients tapping into the power of social media to help one another with their conditions.  Earlier in the...

0 replies - 133 views - 05/15/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Human and robot collaboration

When we talk about improving collaboration within our organisations, we’re usually talking about improving it between our human employees.  Some new...

0 replies - 355 views - 05/14/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Risk in a networked society

It’s hard to dispute the claim that society now is more inter-connected than it has ever been.  Most of the time this hyperconnectivity is touted as...

0 replies - 316 views - 05/14/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Are online communities commoditising our health information?

A few weeks ago I interviewed the founder of HealthUnlocked.  HealthUnlocked are an online community for patients looking for support and advice on their...

0 replies - 381 views - 05/13/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Comparison between venture funding and crowdfunding

The move away from obtaining finance from mainstream sources has been a constant one over the past decade.  We’ve seen the microfinance industry...

0 replies - 356 views - 05/13/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Salesforce Buys Clipboard for $10 Million

It's been a busy few weeks for Salesforce.  First they released their new Social.com marketing product.  This was closely followed by the release...

0 replies - 406 views - 05/12/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Yammer Sales Up 259% in Last Quarter

While the move by Microsoft to buy Yammer last year may have caught some by surprise, the move has been more than vindicated by the rapid growth in the...

0 replies - 559 views - 05/11/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Is Discourse the future of forums?

Forums are the untrendy side of social media, but have been the bedrock of social interaction online for well over a decade now.  Throughout that...

0 replies - 1364 views - 05/11/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Coursera Adds More to Their Educational Offering

Yesterday MOOC network Coursera released news of an increasing number of teacher training courses launching on the site. They have continued their march into...

0 replies - 494 views - 05/10/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles