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Social Media and Collaboration: Despite the Hype, Most Businesses Aren't Ready

By Dick Weisinger

Collaboration technologies have consistently been shown to save companies money on travel, office space and IT spending.  Collaboration helps staff members locate information more quickly and be better informed about both their companies and their job tasks.  Collaboration is also

Social Media: Engineers Not Yet Comfortable with Social Media

By Dick Weisinger

Social Media and collaboration tools like LinkedIn, FaceBook and Twitter.  Facebook has more than 500 million users with more than half of all Internet-using Americans having accounts.  While Social Media has originated in consumer space, organizations are increasingly adopting Social

Health Care: Doctors Begin Embrace of Technology from Social Media to iPads

By Dick Weisinger

Doctors have always had a love for expensive high-tech medical equipment.  Think multimillion-dollar proton-beam therapy centers, robotic surgery, and advanced imaging technologies.  But when it comes to the mundane tasks of running their office as a business, doctors have been

Social Media: How Are Businesses Addressing the Challenge

By Dick Weisinger

In a report from AIIM on how Social Media is affecting businesses and the way that they operate, the following survey findings are reported: 43 percent of organizations bar their employees from accessing social media sites 44 percent of organizations

PLM: Enterprise Software Becoming More Usable and More Sociable

By Dick Weisinger

PLM vendors are doing their best to pivot their development paths and reinvent their software to incorporate better usability and more collaborative and social features.  It’s been a challenge for them, but by the end of 2010, some signs of