More on CRM meets Web 2.0: Salesforce.com and Facebook
By Ian Hendry at 4 November, 2008, 12:28 am
Just a few week after LinkedIn announced an investment from SAP, Facebook and Salesforce.com buddy up.
If you don’t follow Salesforce.com, it’s their Dreamforce expo this week, where users and developers of the on-demand, cloud dominator wannabe all meet up and talk about how great their choice was. And Salesforce.com reveals some stuff that no one [...]
LinkedOut - when business networks don’t let you network
By Ian Hendry at 13 October, 2008, 12:06 pm
When I logged into LinkedIn today I found I have been punished for trying to network with new people I don’t know.
Well, I say new people I don’t know. I don’t believe I have been using LinkedIn for what I would describe as the basis of business networking. Rather, I have used it for several [...]
Facebook’s future as a search engine
By Ian Hendry at 26 September, 2008, 4:07 pm
A roundtable hosted at the Emerging Technology Conference at MIT puts money on Facebook doing search better than Google.
I have long been saying that Google is broken. When you want a PR company in Huddersfield and get 92,000 items back, you know it’s broken (there are only 146,000 people in Huddersfield and some of them [...]
Find out how people really networking online
By Ian Hendry at 23 September, 2008, 9:00 am
Do you want to know how other small business owners, sales, marketing and purchasing professionals network? How much time and money they spend doing it? Whether they prefer face to face or online networking? Whether they are closing business through their Tweets and other online activities? And whether they’d suggest you follow their lead?
Please give [...]
Is the word “social” stigmatising Web 2.0?
By Ian Hendry at 10 September, 2008, 2:10 pm
I’ve thought about it and the social web isn’t social at all.
I have just had an interesting conversation with fellow SociallyMinded blogger Matthew Brazil about some changes we’ve made to the WeCanDo.BIZ website this week. The changes were made necessary by a small number of users on our system incorrectly using (perhaps by choice) a [...]