Social Business

• Social businesses are more agile, more responsive, and more successful than others. To become a social business, you need a platform to empower people with social networks, engage with experts and clients, and cultivate trust using people-centric experiences.

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  Improving Age-Identification Tech

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 02-21-12 |

  The most accurate age-identification systems tend to be expensive and time-consuming. But a new algorithm determines age twice as fast without requiring massive databases of photographs. The tool could make age-identifying billboards and other technologies more of a reality.
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  Successful Retail Requires Support for Cross-Channel Sales

  Michael Steinhart | Date: 02-21-12 |

  Sales that happen across several cross-channel commerce ‘touch-points’ are rising in frequency and leading to higher revenues and deeper customer relationships – that is - for retailers that actually get it right.
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  The Ingredients for Social Business Success

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-20-12 |

  Crowdsourcing is increasingly influencing all forms of buying and business decisions. Consumers have unprecedented power over how brands are perceived and purchases are made. And employees are demanding social tools in the workplace, and are actively sidestepping established hierarchies and IT processes to use them. To be successful in this dynamic environment, companies must embrace these changes and become social businesses.
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  Gen Y Loves a Well-Connected Car

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-17-12 |

  Gen Y consumers want automobiles that are an extension of their social media and digital lifestyles. Automakers are responding by introducing innovative technology to help keep drivers connected while on the road.
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  Security Training for Social Media

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-14-12 |

  Best practices for protecting personal information--called digital responsibility--is best learned right now, regardless of your age. That's the goal of a free Internet security training suite for students, teachers, worried parents, and even savvy users.
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  Battling Non-communicable Diseases with Smart Technology

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-13-12 |

  A social-media enabled support system for pregnant women with gestational diabetes and an advanced smart-phone service were the winning entries in an IBM and Novartis-sponsored contest to developed new solutions to help manage the growing global problem of non-communicable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, stroke and cancer.
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  Gamification Boosting Enterprise Websites

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-13-12 |

  By offering the same kind of incentives as massive multi-player gaming platforms--unlocking badges, moving up by levels, competing against others, and having fun uncovering surprise content--enterprises worldwide are quickly adding smart gamification software-as-a-service (SaaS) to their websites.
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  People's Oscars Gauge Public Sentiment

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-10-12 |

  The People's Oscars project intends to demonstrate that business analytics and natural language software can be successfully used to understand, respond, and predict public sentiment in Academy Awards winners, sports events, retailing trends, and journalist media.
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  Sustainability Creates Jobs, Cuts Costs

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 02-09-12 |

  A report from MIT outlines how green practices are saving companies, especially those in the manufacturing industry, money and creating jobs. Businesses with sustainability at the organizational level, with jobs like chief sustainability officer being offered, are most likely to benefit from sustainability.
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  The Empire Strikes Back at Price Comparison Apps

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-08-12 |

  Retail giant Target has had enough with price comparison apps that help shoppers size up a product on its showroom floors only to buy the same item for a lower price online.
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  Twitter, Facebook Play Increasing Role in Political Campaigns

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 02-07-12 |

  Web 2.0 has played a role in past political campaigns, but it’s more important for the 2012 election than ever before. Social media is enabling candidates to reach out directly to voters and helping political analysts predict election results.
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  Cloud Brings New Jobs, Study Finds

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 02-06-12 |

  A study by the London School of Economics recently found that cloud computing brings new jobs and does not increase the risk of unemployment in the U.S. and Europe. It also predicted huge growth of cloud-related jobs in the coming years.
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