Turning social data into cash : Real-time winning
The proliferation of mobile technology has left few without a social media presence, empowering individuals through personal and professional connections across the globe. Its an inevitable aspect of our cultural revolution, and one the enterprise can no longer ignore. The past few years has softened the enterprise to social networking, even spurring organizations to better leverage internal and external social data to their advantage.
At the recently concluded IBM IOD event last year, theCUBE heard from several executives within the tech space as to the importance of social data. For IBM this growing interest in social data is a market opportunity for its expanding Big Data product portfolio, marking one of the four pillars of the initiative. In this article well discuss how social data fits into IBMs Big Data portfolio, comprised of analytics, cloud and mobile operatives.
Marcia Conner, Principal with SensifyGroup and a Social Biz Expert and author, discussed during her appearance on theCUBE how social media has helped people realize that they are human beings and theres nothing wrong with embracing that. She discussed that in the past, employees had to leave their personality in the car, but now, social media has opened up the door for work to not suck.
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Its not that we have all these new data and we can actually be doing more stuff; the question becomes for me (and organizations I work with) what can we remove, what are the policies and the nonsense that happens in work every single day that shouldnt be there. Its only there because we dont have a better way, a more trustworthy and a more human way of actually working together, so its incredibly liberating and incredibly open from our perspective simply because its less, explained Conner.
Renee Ducre, Director of Marketing Social Business with IBM, shared how social media is being leveraged by the enterprise to get attention. In this day and age, attention is not bad, it is a commodity. The more attention a brand has, the more interested consumers will be in their products. Ducre also mentions that though crowdsourcing, or getting input from people to make something better, seems to be a new thing thats just catching on, IBM has been doing that for a long time.
Youll see more social technologies, leveraging all of the social collaboration tools is a must, Ducre stated.
IBM prides itself with being a genuinely social business. Every IBM employee is given social media guidelines, which they use to become the voice of IBM. Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software at IBM, explains that being social doesnt need to be complicated or painful. You just need a software thats reliable and easy to use without an instructional manual.
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Turning social data into cash : Real-time winning