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Enterprises are taking initiatives to make internal communication effective. And they are making a paradigm shift from the conventional approaches to ensure high productivity and innovation among employees.

EMPLOYEES' CHANGING BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS

There is a huge pressure on organizations to adapt to change driven by behavior of new-age employees' and shift in technology. The visible shift in behavioral patterns, enabled by major trends including IT consumerization, growth of social networking, and proliferation of mobile technologies all combined together is giving rise to the modern age communication that is faster, clearer, and action oriented.

Enterprises are realizing the importance of introducing innovative platforms enabling their workforce to communicate effectively, share ideas and best practices, exhibit their work to others, and more importantly discovering experts easily who can provide an easy solution to a difficult task that is stuck for long time!

A social platform within an enterprise which is interactive and secured can be easily be cultivated for the employees. It has evolved the way consumers interact, and enterprises want to harness that proclivity towards better communication and collaboration.

However, many enterprises view social collaboration from a different perspective. Consumers widely use public social media tools, but providing these tools to employees do not solve the communication problems. Social networking at corporate level can never be same as the consumer social media applications that are publically available as they are not equipped with features at corporate level. At work, people are motivated to get their job done as quickly and effectively as possible.

HOW ESN WORKS FOR THE ENTERPRISES

The traditional and widely used existing enterprise communication and collaboration tools are just not up to the job of supporting a collaborative and knowledge sharing culture in an organization. Email-the primary communication tool of business is overtaxed and used for many purposes were simply not designed to do work effectively. Content management systems are excellent at placing and managing content but do not facilitate the use of the content within the necessary business workflow context. Other tools such as instant messengers are single channel oriented and do not bring people together with data, content, and supporting systems. All of these tools in fact are mostly standalone and don't help build a knowledge sharing and collaborative business culture.

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How Enterprise Social Networks are Becoming Business Critical Applications

Published: Thursday, 5 Dec 2013 | 10:28 AM ET

By: Apu Gupta, Special to CNBC.com

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Social networking already reaches nearly 1 in 4 people around the world, or 1.73 billion people. And, according to a new eMarketer reporter, that number is expected to rise to 2.5 billion by 2017. Clearly, the industry is in constant transition, and next year it will evolve again, with a focus squarely on images.

With a camera in everyone's pocket and the web itself becoming high-definition (think bigger images and less text), it's become easier than ever to communicate visually. In fact, between Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr alone, more than 400,000,000 images will be shared daily. Add in Snapchat, Google, and Pinterest, and these numbers skyrocket, further emphasizing that consumers really do want to show, not tell. Here are four ways that social will change in 2014:

Pinterest will become universal.Pinterest's recent $225 million venture capital fundraising brings its market valuation to $3.8 billion. It's clear, this network is on fire. It's driving traffic and revenue to brands, and it's going to be an even bigger deal in 2014. Retailers, of course, continue to be a big beneficiary of Pinterest, but brands of all stripes will start to recognize that they have to go where their audience is. A significant number of brands will jump into the Pinterest waters in 2014, recognizing that playing catch-up later will be far more expensive than getting smart now. We'll also finally see forward-looking brands from underrepresented industriesi.e. financial service, health care, and industrialsmake a bigger push at humanizing their brands using imagery and visual storytelling on Pinterest.

(Read more: Apple predictions for 2014)

New ad products will spring up. Pinterest and Instagram have both announced that they are experimenting with ads. Brands are lining up, eager to buy reach on these networks, causing ad spending on social to rise. The most successful brands on these networks will be those who are investing now in growing their Pinterest and Instagram presences to better understand how the platforms work and how consumers engage. These brands will use this knowledge to develop ads that look and feel native to the network they're advertising on.

"In 2014 you'll see more product recommendations from brands and retailers that are influenced by how those products are performing on social networks."

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Social Media in 2014: It’s about show, not tell

By: Agence France-Presse December 7, 2013 1:49 AM

Former South African President Nelson Mandela (R) dons a white T-shirt with the words "HIV Positive" as he visits the Nolungile Clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa together with AIDS activist Zackie Achmat, in this 2002 file photo from Medicins Sans Frontieres.

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PARIS - AIDS campaigners on Friday mourned the passing of Nelson Mandela, declaring his stand against taboo and stigma had turned the tide against the killer disease.

"Nelson Mandela was a central figure in the AIDS movement. He was instrumental in laying the foundations of the modern AIDS response," said Michel Sidibe, head of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS.

"His actions helped save millions of lives and transformed health in Africa. He broke the conspiracy of silence and gave hope that all people should live with dignity."

Of Mandela's achievements, UNAIDS pointed to his decision in 2005 to go public with the news that his own son, Makgatho, had died of AIDS-related causes.

"His public revelation helped drive debate about HIV. And his support to people living with HIV helped to break down stigma and discrimination," UNAIDS said in a press release.

The International AIDS Society (IAS), whose conferences have spearheaded the war on AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes it, said the world "has lost an extraordinary statesman and human being".

"Mr. Mandela had the power to change hearts and minds, change policies and above all change the public's perception of the virus in the most affected region of sub-Sahara," said Bertrand Audoin, executive director of the IAS.

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What is the fastest way to distribute free software? If you said the internet you are mistaken, but its an understandable error. The internet is only a speedy route if youve got a good connection. For much of the world, thats out of reach. A computer scientist has responded to this by developing a neat self-replicating USBthumbdrive.

Thierry Monteil at the Universit Montpellier II in France is working on a way to copy data to USB drives that allows users to disseminate the information easily, even if they lack computer knowhow.The drive is a bootable disk that contains a full copy of Debian Linux and tools like the math program Sage. A user on an unreliable internet connection cant just decide to swing by and download 3GB of data, but a USB drive of the necessary size only costs a few dollars these days. Heres the key: plug a second drive into the computer and execute the clone command from the included shortcut, and the software is copied to the other drive, sans any personal information.

A USB 2.0 port can transfer data at about 30MB/s, which is orders of magnitude faster than the dial-up internet connection available in many areas. The close to zero time needed to duplicate data means this self-replicating drive could spread at a logarithmic rate as people share it.

This isnt a perfect system, though. Everyone still needs a USB drive to get access to the software, and its possible someone not so possessed by good could insert malware into the chain at some point. Monteil suggests keeping transfers local for that reason like among people that share a classroom or a workplace.

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