Paul Gillin

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Part One

Paul Gillin

When I look back at my own output over the last four years – four books, 190 articles, nearly 1,000 blog entries, 300 podcasts, more than 50 webcasts and a busy speaking/training schedule – I marvel at the role that cheap and free technology has played in making me more productive. Thanks to new tools, much of that is now automated.

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

This is a nice, concise document that covers all the bases I can think of. Employee names and e-mail addresses have been withheld and I’ve removed links to several documents that are available only behind Oracle’s firewall. A version from six months ago can be found here. Twitter, social networking sites).

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Oracle’s Updated Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Your postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors on external blogs, wikis, discussion forums, micro-blogs (e.g., Twitter, social networking sites). sato @ oracle.

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Microsoft Down, But Hardly Out

Paul Gillin

Companies that dominate technology industries tend to become so addicted to the products that made them successful that they fail to respond to changes in the market and are done in either by low-cost competitors or a platform shift. Today, the idea that anyone would get excited about any kind of Microsoft product launch seems unfathomable.

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IBM’s Beck: Social Business is About Enablement, Not Control

Paul Gillin

Product and service innovation. When all those customer touches are documented, “the reports and graphs are generated in the background.” A key value of social networks to our daily lives is that they make it easier to find people who can help us get answers and save time, so why not apply those same goals to sales?

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

Customers are taking their complaints about companies and products to the Internet in record numbers, and a new book tells what is driving this trend and how businesses can avoid being victims of customer attacks. Capacity to Destroy. How to create a culture that puts customers first.

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

Other new stuff that they’re doing (and this comes directly from the press release): The industry’s first online design hub – the element14 knode – designed to help engineers accelerate design and development and bring products to market faster than ever before.