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by David on July 25, 2011
Can you see it? A new mobile logistics paradigm has formed, nearly overnight, around the convergence of consumer technology trends and supply chain systems. In just a few years, the proliferation of powerful, affordable, and multifunctional mobile technologies has revolutionized communication and productivity – at home and in the field. As someone who spends a [...]
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by David on January 1, 2011
CIO | December 22, 2010 The expectations of a software application may have historically centred around its ability to solve business problems or to enable specific types of transactions or management processes. Today, the software application is expected to let users communicate and interact with each other the way that they can on Facebook. Organic [...]
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by David on January 1, 2011
By Harvey Mackay “Is social media a fad or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?” asks Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics. Consider these statistics he presents, and my analysis of them, and then decide how connected you should be. Hint: Your company website alone is no longer enough! As of 2010, Generation [...]
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by David on October 11, 2010
French impressionist Claude Monet said, “I am following Nature without being able to grasp her.” Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once asked, “Why has elegance found so little following?” More recently, @ladygaga sings “I’m your biggest fan, I’ll follow you until you love me.” At Twitter, we spend a lot of time thinking about following. [...]
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by David on October 6, 2010
How worthwhile is social media? Do the number of friends you have on Facebook make a difference in your personal life? How about LinkedIn for your professional life? In a world where our digital attention spans are regularly overwhelmed by information, is social media really worth it? The latest Great Debate from Switzerland’s premier business [...]
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by David on October 3, 2010
To twitter is to send out brief text messages (limited to 140 characters) via the Internet using cell phones or handheld computers. Top twitters up to now have tended to be celebrities updating their fans on their moment-to-moment experiences. For transporters into Africa, it’s time to start twittering to one another, communicating real-time bulletins on [...]
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by David on September 24, 2010
According to new research, online marketing is set to grow despite the global recession. The latest study from Forrester Research, one of the leading researchers internationally on online trends, shows enterprises will increase their focus on online marketing in 2010 and build on the collective growth and adoption of social media sites and consumer interaction. [...]
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by David on September 14, 2010
To date, there has been no extensive analysis of South African Twitter usage. Fuseware has profiled millions of tweets from South Africa and tens of thousands of users to better understand the South African Tweeter. We have aggregated this information into dozens of graphs and word clouds for easy reading and dissemination. This information is [...]
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