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Two-thirds of businesses report they use social technologies for marketing and other purposes, but they don't integrate it into their business processes, according to AIIM's 2012 "Social in the Flow" report. Thirty-seven percent expect social media will be used regularly across their entire business over the next two years, and only 9 percent see it as being completely integrated.
While a majority of businesses still struggle to adopt and integrate social processes, language learning company Rosetta Stone and Internet radio company, Pandora, have successfully-embraced the social business trend and are reaping the benefits.
Over the last few years, Rosetta Stone has swapped out about 70 per cent of its technology infrastructure, including its ecommerce systems and internal technology applications, for SaaS offerings. Pandora, too, has turned to the Cloud - 100 per cent of its business operations are now SaaS-based.
Both companies use Salesforce.com services today and both report improvements in collaboration, communication and productivity, though it wasn't without challenges. Here's a look at how Pandora and Rosetta Stone navigated security concerns, corporate culture change and gaining executive buy-in to reap social business's rewards.
Addressing Social Security Concerns
"We're a 20-year-old company and we knew we needed to change," says Rosetta Stone CIO Pradeep Mannakkara, who joined the company in mid-2011.
Rosetta Stone was already a proponent of social media-it has more than 1.5 million Facebook fans from pages in nine different languages-but it had yet to adopt a strategy to better communicate with and connect its 1,700 employees worldwide.
"When you have a lot of these teams in offices all around the world relying on email, travel and phone, you don't get as much done," Mannakkara says. "Our workforce is somewhat younger, too, and they use social tools in their personal lives. They kind of expect it at work now," he says.
About a year ago, Mannakkara and his team piloted Chatter, Salesforce's collaboration tool, twice: first in a group of a couple hundred users, and then in his tech group of about 100 employees. And while the pilots were successful and Chatter has since been rolled out to all Rosetta Stone employees, he admits he was skeptical at first.
"What if someone posts something inappropriate? How do you manage that? What about confidentiality? I had a lot of questions and heard a lot of debates. But what it comes down to is this: Technology is evolving and you can't try to police and control everything," he says. "It got to a point where some of these conversations were silly. This is the sort of thing that stops progress."
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Treatment in asymptomatic individuals may speed up the development of deadlier virus strains
Even as researchers creep closer toeliminating the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)in some patients via intense multi-drug therapies and early treatment, researchers at theUniversity of Southern Californiawarn that the responsible treatment may give rise to new killer strains that resist drugs.
The USC study hits close to home as the Los Angeles county targetsmen who have sex with men (MSM) -- a high-risk group for HIV/AIDS -- with a so-called "test and treat" strategy. The strategy pushes foruniversal testing-- particularly between MSM and other high-risk groups. It calls forearly retroviral drug treatmentin individuals who test HIV positive.
The approach has thus far lowered the death rates and decreased the number of cases.
The USC researchers dug into data on MSM infections, which account for 82 percent of total known HIV infections nationwide. Using data from theCenters for Disease Control, internal data, and knowledge of drug resistance, the researchers modeled the occurrence of drug resistant viral strains if the "test and treat" strategy was aggressively followed over the next several years.
The study suggests that the rates ofmultiple-drug-resistantHIV (MDR) could jump from 4.79 percent to 9.06 percent.
USC ProfessorNeeraj Sood, who was a lead author on the study, suggests that much of the benefit comes from the knowledge of infection status. Hecomments, "Were not saying that testing everybody and treating everybody is bad. All were saying is that you should proceed with caution and closely monitor the prevalence of multi-drug-resistant HIV as you scale up the test and treat model. Prior studies show a dramatic reduction inrisk-taking behaviorby individuals once they know their HIV-positive status."
The research was funded by theEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Healthand Human Developmentandpublishedin an edition of this month'sClinical Infectious Diseasesjournal.
Sources: USC [press release], Clinical Infectious Diseases [abstract]
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Study: Early HIV Drug Treatment May Lead to Drug-Resistant Strains