Blog Posts With Business Development Ideas

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These blog posts and links are intended to help business managers, team leaders, and customer facing employees. Most of them are about business development, improving customer support, (think - social shopping, e-comm, crm, customer experience), project management, social networking software, social information management, community software solutions, social media, collaboration, organizational development, knowledge management, marketing, and innovation. We hope you find them relevant and insightful! We strongly believe in sharing so feel free to leave comments or contact us with questions. Kind regards, AI group

Title	Post date
Web 2.0 And How To Sabotage A Business	06/12/2008 - 06:48
A central web 2.0 principle	05/24/2008 - 10:12
Web 3.0, RDF, and the Semantic Web	05/10/2008 - 07:00
Web 2.0, Communites, and Business Processes	05/28/2008 - 07:14
Collaborative innovation	04/02/2008 - 10:05
Sorting out social software, community platforms, content management.	04/20/2008 - 08:19
Social shopping sites ringing up sales	04/07/2008 - 09:39
Web 2.0 and customer support	04/03/2008 - 07:57
What Do You Think?	04/28/2008 - 09:54
Social Networks, Communities, & Rich Learning Environments	03/04/2008 - 10:46
Keeping up with rapidly changing times.	03/09/2008 - 08:07
Important technologies for 2008 - Collaboration Tools - Social Networks	03/14/2008 - 05:17
Improving customer services with social networking software.	03/17/2008 - 07:05
Managing open innovation - tapping external talent	02/01/2008 - 13:07
Social Applications Will Thrive In A Recession	02/11/2008 - 15:26
Mobile Social Networking and Communities Growing	02/12/2008 - 09:59
Marketing 1.0 to 2.0 considerations	02/13/2008 - 10:09
Enterprise COBOL Applications Meet Web 2.0 - Social Software	02/20/2008 - 11:37
How Social Media and Web 2.0 Work In Business	02/20/2008 - 17:35
What is "social networking technology"?	01/25/2008 - 09:57

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Scenario 1. An internal customer has come to you with a problem. Her team is consistently missing deadlines because of poor communication. E-mails frequently go unread for days, members don't respond to questions in a timely fashion and too many meetings are required to get everybody back on track.

Other email problems include: internal spam, idiot attachments, cc's, cya, and my fav - reply all. Make better connections to improve internal communications and internal branding .

Scenario 2. You're losing business. Customers are defecting to competitors. Your web site is like a museum - look but don't touch and customer experience is non-existent. The information is outdated, hard to find and reflects poorly on your brand. It has no connection to the social web or support for sharing information - rss/xml .

The site has no facility for customer interaction or user generated content - reviews, recommendations, voting, comments, etc. Sharing ideas (so they can become viral across the net) and having actionable information is simply impossible. Redesign your site - join the social web and improve marketing and sales.

Scenario 3. You have problems - gaps - that your business strategy and IT applications fail to address. Your employees, customers, and stakeholders want to get work done. You need to innovate and help people find solutions.

Your intranet or web site is outdated - broken. There's no mechanism for follow-up on training, events, conference calls, or conferences. No search. The left hand doens't know what the right hand is doing.

There's no easy way to capture, share, and track important yet informal information. The kind of information that is not organized or reused - it should be - but tends to get lost. The kind that helps you make better decisions, improve work flows, and customer support. Redesign your site - make your information actionable.

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