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Social Media: Businesses Adopt SM as Popularity Increases

By Dick Weisinger

Social Media use is growing fast. A Nielsen survey showed an 82 percent jump in usage of Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook in December 2009 from the previous year. The average Internet user spent about 5.5 hours per…

Technology: Data Consistency via Master Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

Companies are struggling to get their data house in order.  Technologies like SOA and data web services are making it easier to pull together data across applications and repositories.  So the data is out there and is readily accessible, but…

Technology: Companies Have Narrow Focus for IT Budgets in 2010

By Dick Weisinger

Poor economic conditions have led small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to be conservative with their 2010 IT spending budgets.  That’s the conclusion of Forrester Research after surveying 2200 IT executives and managers in North America and Europe. Companies are picking…

Open Source: Next generation Focuses on Data

By Dick Weisinger

First there was Open Source — for software.  The next phase is about data — Open Data.  And local, state and federal grovernments are setting the trend. On the federal level, Obama is promoting the Open Government Directive.   In January…

Social Media: Inc 500 versus Fortune 500

By Dick Weisinger

While Fortune 500 companies have been slow to understand and adopt social media, small companies have embraced the technology and are using it as a way for them to amplify their place in the market. Among the Inc. 500 companies,…