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Social software adoption: Riding the hype curve

Biznology

There is a lot of hype and skepticism around the actual ability for social software to deliver real, sustainable business value, which makes social software no different than every other new kind of software that comes down the pike. Photo credit: the_exploratorium. ″ years.

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Your online reputation abhors a vacuum in Google search

Biznology

Well, according to Wikipedia , “the ‘China syndrome’ is a nuclear meltdown scenario so named for the fanciful idea that there would be nothing to stop the meltdown tunneling its way to the other side of the world, China.” This results in not just a vacuum—which Google abhors—but in a black hole.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. In the meantime, this is what happened to Wikipedia: Wikipedia Growth – Source. Why does that happen?

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The infancy of social technologies

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. Nobody knows for sure if Google+ will ever dethrone Facebook and Twitter, but the buzz it created showed something already: our allegiance to any Social Platform in particular is as reliable as that of a mercenary just waiting for the highest bidder. by Aaron Kim.

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

Webbiquity

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. A few examples.

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Do best practices really exist in the realm of Social Business?

Biznology

Seal of Good Practice as it appeared in 1958 (Photo credit: Wikipedia). A quick Google search for “social media best practices” reveals 102 million results. If you narrow that down to “social business best practices,” you’ll end up with still impressive 82 million results and change.

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Network Effects: How Growing Your User Base Can Increase the Value of Your Product or Service

Hubspot

By the early-to-mid-2000s , internet technology vastly improved, allowing more people to access the web at faster speeds and letting them connect on social media and collaborative websites like Wikipedia. If a product or service has a network effect, its value and utility will increase as its user base grows.