Seeking Social Business Leaders For 2013

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	The BrainYard weekly newsletter — the latest news and information on social business technologies. Don't miss The BrainYard's news and updates — please add thebrainyard@techwebdigitalcontent.com to your contact list or address book. Seeking Social Business Leaders For 2013 By David F Carr Who wants to brag about their company's success with social collaboration, social customer service and strategy for tying together the multiple ways social technologies can make a business more efficient and effective? We're once again looking for introductions to the best of the best, a new set of Social Business Leaders to be announced at June's E2 Conference in Boston. The ideal social business leader would be taking advantage of a variety of employee, partner, supplier and customer applications of social networks, social media and related technologies. More importantly, whatever the technologies chosen, a social business user employs them to make a real difference for the business. READ MORE » LinkedIn Endorsements: Do's And Don'ts Love them or hate them, you can't just ignore LinkedIn Endorsements. Here's expert advice on how to deal with social's new head-scratcher. Oracle: Eloqua Will Stay Friendly With Salesforce.com Oracle's roadmap for recently acquired Eloqua marketing suite shows continued support for Salesforce.com and Microsoft CRM applications. Wharton MBA Classes Go Bi-Coastal With Video Cisco telepresence setup for classroom videoconferencing allows a lecturer at Wharton's main Philadelphia campus to simultaneously teach a class in San Francisco. Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest Users Hit In Zendesk Breach Zendesk, which runs a help desk service and hosts customer service portals, alerts users that hackers accessed email addresses and personal data. BK Hack Triggers Twitter Password Smackdown "Operation Whopper" takeover of Burger King and Jeep Twitter accounts, and spoof hacks by MTV and BET, trigger Twitter's "friendly reminder" to use strong passwords. MORE NEWS » Jacob Morgan 8 Ways To Judge Collaboration Technology Vendors Collaboration vendors starting to all sound alike? Here are key considerations as you compare tool providers and their products. MORE COMMENTARY » 10 Social Networks For Special Interests Vertical, or specialized, social networks connect you with people and and business opportunities around specific industries or affinities -- whether you're a doctor, or a cat lover. 8 Key Changes In Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Microsoft's popular collaboration platform gets a significant revamp with SharePoint 2013. Here's what you gain. Facebook's 2012 Highs And Lows 2012 brought big ups and downs for Facebook, and for the companies that have bet some of their business on it. MORE SLIDESHOWS » Hearsay Social Brings An Enterprise Focus Hearsay Social's CTO and co-Founder Steve Garrity gives the Valley View judges the 2-minute elevator pitch, and discusses why his company's social enterprise software stands out. Hearsay Makes Business More Social Some of the most innovative new enterprise technologies come from start-ups, but doing business with them can be risky, given their unproven products and short track records. With Steve Garrity, Co-Founder and CTO of Hearsay Social. Highlights: Microsoft Introduces New Office and Windows 8 Highlights: Microsoft Introduces New Office and Windows 8 MORE VIDEOS » Seeking Social Business Leaders For 2013 LinkedIn Endorsements: Do's And Don'ts Oracle: Eloqua Will Stay Friendly With Salesforce.com Wharton MBA Classes Go Bi-Coastal With Video "Saw this one coming... as more and more organizations move more of their internal services to the cloud, you start moving the boundaries of the security envelope and the risk/liability involved." 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2:45 PM Owning what's probably the world's biggest database professional rolodexes, as LinkedIn (LNKD +1.4%) is thinking of dipping its toes into the enterprise social networking space, says CEO Jeff Weiner. Private-sharing tools meant to work behind corporate firewalls are being internally tested, he adds. If LinkedIn enters this market, its user base and data could make it a formidable rival to incumbents such as Jive Software (JIVE), IBM, Microsoft (Yammer), and Salesforce.com (Chatter). Read comments

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