Paul Gillin

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Organizing the Chaos of Social CRM

Paul Gillin

The market is too fragmented and no vendor pulls together all the necessary features, which include platforms, monitoring tools, social analytics and CRM. I previously expressed my opinions about the whole concept of social CRM.

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A CIO Who Gets Social Business

Paul Gillin

Also, if you’re going to ask for opinions, be prepared for what you get. All this dialog has created a mountain of data and we have to figure out how to apply social analytics and who’s got the toolsets that can help us. In some cases, the topics are requested by IBM; however, the words and opinions are entirely my own.

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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

Surveys, A/B tests, website analytics and marketing automation are essential tools for professional marketers, but you don’t have to be a statistician to understand whether or not your campaigns are working. Facebook’s built-in analytics give you a pretty good idea of what’s sparking conversation on your page.

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IDC Sees Massive Disruption From Industry’s Platform Shift

Paul Gillin

The global IT industry is in the middle of an epic platform shift and the rules for survival in a market built on mobility, big data analytics, social business and cloud computing will be very different than those that applied to the previous client/server generation.

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IBMer: ‘Social Selling’ Is a Sales Process in Itself

Paul Gillin

Cognos and SPSS analytics were applied to better qualify opportunities and improve forecasting. In some cases, the topics are requested by IBM; however, the words and opinions are entirely my own. As a result, salespeople now know more about their prospects and managers have better visibility into progress against goals.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

It’s like Moneyball: analytics + baseball = new game.” We need deep analytics around everything in the organization. Noting that 30% of customers abandon Web pages within five seconds, he highlights the close-to-real-time analytics built on top of a scalable social network. “This is rethinking.