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Corporate social media: skate everywhere the puck has been and is going

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I've said repeatedly that corporate social media doesn't have its own strategy any more than Microsoft Word does. Social media is/are a set of really powerful tools, and therefore tactics, not a strategy. But that doesn't mean a company shouldn't be everywhere -- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and maybe a couple of.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Oracle has Beehive , Microsoft has added social capabilities to SharePoint , SocialText is in the enterprise, as is IBM’s Lotus Connections , but no category killer has emerged. Microsoft’s Bing was the surprise hit of 2009, and has started to erode Google’s share of search. Even Google, a Web 1.0

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Facebook: Too Big to Fail

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Remember Microsoft’s anti-trust problems ? In June, 1990, the FTC launched a probe into allegations that Microsoft and IBM were colluding to corner the PC software market. In 1994, Microsoft signed a consent decree agreeing to not use its dominant position to squelch competition.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Tags: Social Media 2010 predictions 2012 AR Augmented Reality Beehive Bing blogola Brightkite Careers Ethics EU Facebook Foursquare Google IBM Lotus Connections Microsoft recruiting SAP social search socialtext Twitter Unfair Business Practices Directive careers ethics Socialtext twitter.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Or Microsoft Word, which added HTML capability years ago but will never be used by serious Web developers. There comes a time in the life of every hot software product’s life (whether a Web 2.0 Witness Google, with Google Buzz, which has generated some interest but doesn’t really seem poised to destroy Twitter.

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Is Blogging Killing Good Writing?

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Neither of these is in my Microsoft Word dictionary, which means they are good words. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”. The piece in The Economist that features this quote later makes use of the words “gyromancer” and “haruspexes.” Growing up, my favorite writers were Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P.

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Comments Were Meant to Be Deleted

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And if you went to one of Microsoft’s Facebook pages would you expect to see racist comments or ads for sunglasses? Because Microsoft has an obligation to create a safe environment, and to protect people from these kinds of things. I’m not Microsoft. So they delete these comments freely.

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