Posts tagged IBM

Burton Group Survey: Enterprise not quite grasping Social Networking

Apr 3rd

In a recent report published by the Burton Group, analysts’ found that attempts to replicate social networking (facebook) and their associated tools (twitter) aren’t really taking off within the corporate structure.

The report, social networking in the enterprise is based on detailed interviews with 21 companies spanning a wide variety of industries including utilities, consumer goods, technology, and finance.

With the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston bearing down on us, this report from Burton couldn’t have come at a better time, as businesses are struggling to not only understand, but utilize and maximize the technologies potential. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is a gathering of tech vendors that create social applications similar to facebook, twitter, etc., but specifically tailored for business usage. In addition to the old standbys such as IBM (Lotus Connections) and Microsoft (SharePoint), new players including Socialtext, Jive, and Six Apart are slated to be in attendance.

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Burton Group, Business, Facebook, IBM, IBM Lotus Connections, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, Social network service, Twitter

TSheets takes the tough sheet out of your time sheet

Nov 21st

Posted by Dan Taylor in Technology

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A while back, before the great database debacle, I won a writing contest with TSheets, which ultimately led to my employment with TSheets. I got an email the other day from a reader that was asking what happened to the story. I promised to re-post the original article (dated April 30th, 2008), but I also want to mention that if you’ve not heard about TSheets’ Freshbooks integration (certain passages written by yours truly), go give it a read. Pretty cool stuff for small business owners and self employed professionals. Without further adieu:

TSheets takes the tough sheet out of your time sheet

3000 BC: Fred Flintstone ends day by listening for high pitched squawking bird. Quarry Foreman spends hours pouring over timestones at the end of the week.

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