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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 … Continue reading Social Competitive Intelligence
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 … Continue reading Thinking of Going Independent? Here is How To Put a Value on You
Travel website Tnooz and the European Travel Commission recently ran an article with a laundry list of social media recommendations for travel destinations. They scored the top travel locations and found that, in aggregate, they stink at social media. This is surprising since most people love to holiday in exotic and exciting locations, have a … Continue reading 14 Social Recommendations for Travel Destinations
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 … Continue reading SWIFT Source and Signal Table – Updated
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 … Continue reading Social Web Intelligence Framework and Tactics
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 … Continue reading How To Build A Killer Community – The Experts’ Roundtable
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 … Continue reading Managing Employee Engagement When You Have No Employees
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 … Continue reading People as a Service
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 … Continue reading Why Your Company Wont Adopt Social Business Technology
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,200 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 15 years to get … Continue reading 2012 in review
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