Dialego has launched a new social media division. This German research agency recognized that social media market research is a huge and important part of market research. Leading this new division is Annette Stucken from Unilever.
As we near the end of another year, many professionals are making predictions about the coming year and recapping the highlights of the previous year. Among the ten technology and business trends that will affect businesses and consumers alike in the coming year, one writer predicts a more semantic web.
Have you been thinking about a trip to France lately? Here is a good reason to go, as if you needed one. A workshop on semantic analysis in social networks will take place on in April 2012 in Avignon, France.
A new technology start up, Me Sixty has found investors to help support further expansion of its geo-social indexing technology (social media created with mobile devices and tagged to locations).
A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.
Alfresco has released their latest community version of their platform at JaveOne, Alfresco Community 4, with many new features. Among those features are an improved user interface and tooling to allow support of popular technology trends, such as cloud computing and social media.
The digital workplace has presented some tough challenges. There isn’t a Human Resource department anywhere that hasn’t faced the IT challenge of engaging employees, maintaining productivity and still have a foot hold in the social media world – all at the same time.
You would have to live under a rock if you haven’t heard one person, let alone dozens, complain about the recent changes on Facebook. You would think someone changed a critical part of their life…oh wait, I guess they did.
Dachis Group’s new Social Business Index (SBI) measures the success of initiatives across over 26,000 brands from over 20,000 companies and over 100 million social accounts worldwide. The Index was built on top of Dachis Group's Social Business Intelligence Insight Platform and analyzes the effectiveness of strategies and tactics organizations employ to engage the market through social channels. Using natural language processing, semantic analysis, and machine learning algorithms, Dachis Group has built a machine learning engine.
Despite the predictions of many, the death of traditional media may not have arrived, just yet. The latest Ipsos Mendelsohn survey of affluent Americans reveals less than 20% of “rich” Americans have embraced newer technologies.