Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

How Social Media is Changing Business — And Your Job Search


A decade ago, businesses didn’t have company Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts or Instagram feeds.

In fact, Facebook didn’t exist.

When you start thinking about how much social media has changed the way that businesses operate in the past few years, you can’t help but wonder how much more — and how — it will change in the coming decade.

According to Sandy Carter, General Manager of IBM Ecosystems and Social Business Evangelist at IBM, there are a lot of exciting changes to come. As an author, speaker and expert in social business, Carter not only makes sure her company stays on top of the latest technology trends and how they can be incorporated into the workforce, but makes sure other companies recognize that potential, as well.

To learn more, we chatted with Carter about what exactly a “social business” is, why it’s beneficial, and how companies can start to adopt that kind of forward-thinking strategy in their business and hiring practices.


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How Social Media is Changing Business — And Your Job Search

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Facebook Picks SportStream To Beef Up Its Real-Time Sports Data For News Outlets


You post “Goal!!!!11!!” but who scored? Facebook’s on a drive to host more sports talk and get its trends shown on the news, so today it’s partnering with SportStream to structure, enhance, and make sense of its messy real-time data.

SportStream will offer broadcasters and sports teams a search interface for Facebook’s Keyword Insights and Public Feed APIs that leverages its “SportsBase” of metadata on teams, players, leagues, and games to surface who’s saying what about the biggest moments in athletics.

Facebook knows chatter about real-time, global events like sports is a huge opportunity for engagement, but many people are bringing this talk to Twitter. By getting TV, print, and web news outlets plus the sports teams themselves sharing Facebook sports chatter trends, Facebook hopes users will make it their water cooler for the big game.

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Facebook Picks SportStream To Beef Up Its Real-Time Sports Data For News Outlets

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