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Charlene Li’s ‘The Engaged Leader’ Tells Executives How To Lead Without Fearing Social Technology

Technology can be a scary thing. No matter whether you’re trying to figure out ephemeral messaging apps like Snapchat, why you’d want to use a live-streaming service like Meerkat, or simply what’s your return on using Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. But imagine how difficult it could be for corporate executives who want to try and control […]

Enterprise

With Work, Facebook Aims to Consolidate All of Our Social Engagement (and Data) Under One Platform

The battle for being social in the enterprise has heated up once again. Earlier this month, Facebook announced that it was launching a new offering specifically for businesses. Called Work, it’s intended to close the gap between the personal and the professional identities people have on the social network. With the introduction of both a mobile […]

Dev

Echo’s New DIY Studio Service Aims To Enable Users To Create Branded Social Media ‘Experiences’

Social media engagement is certainly a program many brands and publishers have included in their marketing and public relations arsenal. However, for some, finding the right balance to create a proper environment that is seamless and native can be rather difficult. Does a business seek out developers to find ways to bring in feeds from […]

Apps

Transforming the Box: Aaron Levie’s Mission to Show It’s More Than Storing Files in the Cloud

The world of cloud storage has certainly heated up over the past couple of years, let alone months. Nary, a day goes by when we’re probably reading news about the latest service to increase storage capacity. Just this summer, Microsoft did that with its OneDrive service, giving free account holders 15GB of storage and 1TB […]

Apps

Broadcom’s WICED Sense Is A $19.99 Developer Kit To Aid In Rapid Prototyping of Internet of Things Apps

The Internet of Things (IoT) space is heating up with numerous players entering the market more and more frequently. It’s estimated that this will be a $300 billion market by 2020 and is probably enticing enough to get everyone interested in entering the market. But how does one get involved and why is Broadcom interested […]

Enterprise

Box Seeks To Move The ‘Information Economy’ Forward With New Developer Tools & Pricing To Encourage Platform Innovation

Cloud storage platform Box has made a move to show developers that it’s more than just a place to keep files, images, and videos in a safe and secure place on the Internet. At its inaugural BoxDev conference, CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie revealed three new features for the community available today: It’s now easier […]

Dev

A Great Platform Should Be the Foundation of Any Web Solution

Having lived in the historical home and heart of technology innovation, that being Silicon Valley, I’ve been noticing more and more startups emerge and demo their wares. Some even have stood out more than others. And I’m not talking about those that are targeted towards consumers versus enterprise. Rather, I think that some services and […]

Enterprise

Creating Your Own Echo Chamber With The E2 Stream

We’ve all seen it. Companies are advertising on television or through their websites and when they say they have a Facebook page or Twitter account, they’re taking you to that service. You’re no longer centralizing that conversation. It’s going to be impossible for you to tie it all back together. Wouldn’t your community managers prefer […]

Enterprise

What Does Marc Benioff Really Have to Say About the Cloud at Dreamforce 2009?

This is a cross-blog post from Network Solution’s Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on November 18, 2009. I’m sitting here at the 2009 edition of the Dreamforce Conference to listen to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discuss his thoughts about the cloud and any potential announcements he may have about […]

Apps

Amazon’s DIY web services lets you pay as you go

During the Web 2.0 Expo, I happened to walk through the tradeshow and came across the Amazon Web Services booth. As with most of you reading (including myself), when I say Amazon, you’re probably thinking about books and electronics, not web services, right? Well I managed to chat with one of their exhibitors at the […]