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Craig Barrett Takes On Vivek Wadhwa In The Tech Education Debate
are the entry level education requirements to get into the engineering and research laboratories of the successful tech corporations in the US, like Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, IBM, etc. Their Indian and Chinese counterparts are held in high regard by society and end up at the top of the social ladder. Editor’s note : The most valuable employees of any technology company are the engineers and scientists, which is why everyone in Silicon Valley does whatever they can to ensure the continuous supply to this talent pool. The size of the talent pool is ultimately determined by
TechCrunch - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped
It is social. m energized by the excitement I see for a new generation of collaboration software in the enterprise to replace antiquated Microsoft Sharepoint servers and IBM’s Lotus Notes. Microsoft and IBM have maintained the status quo on enterprise collaboration software too long, and it’s time for a change. Approximately 40% of companies are already Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com . In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook.
TechCrunch - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Business Management and Holistic, Critical Thinking
As a result, business schools are moving into territory “more traditionally associated with the liberal arts: multidisciplinary approaches, an understanding of global and historical context and perspectives, a greater focus on leadership and social responsibility and, yes, learning how to think critically.” I could not agree more, based on my personal experiences in business, - as an executive at IBM for many years, and more recently as a consultant at IBM and Citigroup.  Harder to find and in greater demand are T-shaped professionals , who combine a strong functional
Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Saturday, March 6, 2010
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  • IBM Debuts New Social Network for Business Partners to Discover, Collaborate, & Profit
    Today, IBM is launching PartnerWorld Communities , a new social net for the hardware/software giant's partners to identify skills, resources, and new business opportunities with one another. IBM is concurrently launching their Business Partner Development Series, an educational tool for partners who need insight on creating dynamic infrastructures, selling to the midmarket, and selling to the CFO. Partners will be able to develop online communities that make their skills visible to other partners, connect with them on tech innovations, and develop and deliver products through interactive forums before beta testing.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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  • Social Media Planning and Evaluation for NGOs
    I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” Social Media Strategy Planning & Measurement - What’s Working? With social media,  however, strategy is a compass, not a map, 8221; Part of this work has been to  comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits. I
    Full Circle - Sunday, June 7, 2009
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  • IBM Launches World's Geekiest Social Network, My developerWorks
    Many a neutech hipster looked askance at the huge IBM-plex situated front and center at this year's Web 2.0 Social media. They said IBM was doing more to support developers for the new web. So, what is IBM really doing in the social space? conference. No one could deny the hardware/software/services giant's place in tech history (their first plant is now almost 100 years old ), but what did it have to do with the glassy, streamy, widgety world that tech had become?
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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  • The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010
    Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work? Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned upon? If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the majority of firms with over 100 employees that have yet to embrace the use of social media in the workplace for the average worker. In Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions: However, there are a growing number of firms such as IBM, Toshiba, and Cerner Corporation that are becoming über-connected workplaces.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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  • Better Customer Service Through Transparency, Tribes, and Talent
    When I did an analysis of a customer service organization at IBM many years ago, the codification of solutions into a knowledge base shifted first call resolution from less than 60% to over 90%. Tags: Customers Social media Transparenc I confess that I have a warm spot in my heart for customer service operations. It is probably because I met my wife of 29.5
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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  • Lotus Notes Soon To Become Even More LinkedIn
    LinkedIn has partnered with IBM to create a new plugin that integrates its professional social network into Lotus Notes, a popular business desktop client that includes Email, calendar, and IM functionality. The two companies are also announcing LinkedIn integration into Lotus Connections (an internal social networking product for businesses), as well as an option to launch a Bluehouse web conference directly from someone’s LinkedIn profile. The plugin is making its debut to the public at Lotusphere , with plans for its release in the first half of 2009. For users
    TechCrunch - Monday, January 19, 2009
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  • Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why?
    The number one social networking site is not content to win over rival MySpace. It is not satisfied being far ahead of Google on the social web. IBM was replaced by Microsoft, which reigned for decades. With the rise of the social web, things have changed again. It is no secret that Facebook has Twitter envy . Facebook now has Twitter firmly in its crosshairs.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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  • Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools
    I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us IBM Lotus Connections Scuttle – Open Source WSSsearch - SharePoint add-on Any others? I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post. Good comparisons of these?
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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  • Lotusphere 2009: IBM Attempts The Tightrope Of Open Collaboration Within Large Enterprise
    Main announcements at Lotusphere 2009 this morning: IBM highlighted partnerships with LinkedIn , TripIt, Skype, and Salesforce.com. The emphasis was clearly on social computing and collaboration--including the new Lotus Live --IBM's latest SaaS effort. Clearly, IBM recognizes the growth of social collaboration, and they're trying to funnel that through the front door--yes, you can use Flickr, Skype, etc--but everything is designed to On the internal side, the Notes crew demo'd very functional Blackberry integration, voice chat integrated within Notes, and a very nice browser-based UI. The
    TechCrunch - Monday, January 19, 2009
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  • IBM and Procter & Gamble's 21st Century Workplaces
    Companies such as Procter & Gamble, IBM, and others are trying to create innovation and profits through values and principles that enable them to have a positive social impact. IBM created an innovation called Matching Learning Accounts to offer incentives for employees to invest in their own continuing education. IBM matches individual contributions into a portable individual savings U.S. unemployment numbers came in just before Labor Day , and they are grim: 9.7
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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