Traditional Competitive Intelligence is in a rut. Books, websites, whitepapers and presentations all echo the same techniques and priorities that defined the practice 10 years ago. Research public filings, read credentialed analyst reports, talk to employees and former employees if you can, be careful of blogs they might not be trustworthy. Social media? Be extra […]
Read more
Archive | social business RSS feed for this section
Thinking of Going Independent? Here is How To Put a Value on You
May 20, 2013 
Comments Off
Work is increasingly something we DO and less someplace we GO. Combine employment trends with the ability to deliver expertise from anywhere with a phone and internet connection and we have a trend in independent contracting. Organizations like FIELD NATION are leading the way when it comes to combining a jobs marketplace with a business […]
Read moreSWIFT Source and Signal Table – Updated
May 3, 2013 Comments Off
Competitive Intelligence and Business Intelligence Professionals Must Learn to Incorporate Deep web and Social media data into their evaluation and findings. BloomThink’s SWIFT – social web intelligence framework and tactics – program helps companies do just that. Take a look at our Source and Signal table below. This is just a few of the sites […]
Read moreSocial Web Intelligence Framework and Tactics
May 3, 2013 Comments Off
Businesses desire to augment and amplify their competitive intelligence capability by integrating information from social, web and other publicly available sources. They seeks to develop an internal competency program around the discipline of web intelligence. This program has the goal of producing actionable intelligence using available web, deep web[1], social media and darknet[2] information. To […]
Read moreHow To Build A Killer Community – The Experts’ Roundtable
April 23, 2013 Comments Off
There are many kinds of customer communities, from fans on Facebook, to private communities that congregate on company forums. But what makes people join up? What keeps them coming back? How can you start getting your customer community engaged? We asked five highly credentialed experts about this. They have practical advice and some profound insights […]
Read moreManaging Employee Engagement When You Have No Employees
March 26, 2013 Comments Off
Contract workers, contingent workforce and “solopreneurs” are on the rise. It is not just by a little bit. The combination of a slow economy, technology that lets people work from anywhere and a structural shift in the understanding that work is something you do and not just some place you go is driving changes in […]
Read morePeople as a Service
February 15, 2013 Comments Off
These days everything, it seems, is something-as-a-service. Software as a service has become familiar. We use web mail like Gmail, online CRM like Salesforce.com and tools like Quickbooks to mange accounting. Platform as a Service with tools like Amazon AWS, Windows Azure and Rackspace have gained speed. But what about people as a service? People as a […]
Read moreWhy Your Company Wont Adopt Social Business Technology
January 21, 2013 Comments Off
There are those who claim “email is dead”, “search is dead”, “ECM is dead” and so on. I’ve been guilty of that too. We’re right but it doesn’t matter. Technology is always superseded by better, faster, more disruptive technology. But few businesses are in the business of spending money on the latest and greatest tech. We can […]
Read moreTrendspotting 2013
December 19, 2012 1 Comment
2012 is gone and there are plenty of entertaining and profound retrospectives from Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 to your very own Facebook year in review. But it is much more interesting to look ahead and anticipate where the market will go based on the trajectory established in late 2012. Therefore we have performed some deep textual […]
Read moreThe Value of a Single Social Recommendation
December 11, 2012 2 Comments
Figuring out the real, dollars and cents value of social media is still a daunting challenge for most businesses. There are ROI calculators that deduct the cost of electronic self-service from the cost of sales. There are whitepapers and blog posts and whispered promises by sales people at the end of their fiscal quarter. But […]
Read moreAbout Billy
Billy Cripe
Social Media & Enterprise 2.0 Maven
Billy Cripe the founder and Principal BloomThinker of BloomThink a social media & E2.0 strategy consultancy. Billy is an Oracle E2.0 ACE. He is author of the book "Two Types of Collaboration and Ten Requirements for Using Them" (2010 Smashwords) and co-author of the book "Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0" (2008 McGraw-Hill). He has held positions ranging from Vice President of Marketing, Director of Enterprise 2.0 Product Management, Director of Sales Enablement and Consultant. He is a recognized speaker, author and evangelist for Enterprise 2.0 and social computing. Follow him on twitter: @billycripe and his blog http://bloomthink.com
Whitepapers & Infographics
Books by Billy
Billy Cripe
-
billycripe
vansadil
