Enterprise IT specialist Dana Gardner pulls together a panel of experts to give their thoughts on the developments they see taking place in 2009. Some have grim predictions, others hopeful -- but all see enterprise IT making great progress in the coming year. Here are Gardner's Top Five Predictions for 2009: 1. Shadow IT Spending from shadow IT activities will actually grow, and that the amount More»

It’s dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, an advertising creative director in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins to surf the Net. She searches More»

IBM has jumped onto the cloud computing bandwagon. The company launched Bluehouse, a Web-based social networking and collaboration service designed for business. It incorporates social networking for business, More»

A new study by Universal McCann called When did we start trusting strangers? found that rather than being passive, consumers have taken not only active, but also creative roles in consumerism. In More»

Many social software projects fail because IT managers wrongly believe that successful communities form spontaneously after social software tools are installed, according to Gartner Inc. IT and business More»

LiveWorld, a developer of white label online community and social media software has introduced LiveBar – a plug-in that enables any website to add an online community in minutes, without costly More»

According to a recent survey conducted by Awareness Inc, 69 percent of businesses are allowing their employees to use social media for business.
“Increasingly employers are realizing that social More»

We are happy to announce our upcoming Social Media Strategies Conference on October 29-30, 2008. This Conference will focus on cutting-edge Social Media technologies such as blogs, micro-blogging, wikis, More»