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CRM in the age of social media
The company call centre was once the primary (and a private) port of call for irate or frustrated customers. Now, many are turning to social media, airing their complaints on Twitter or Facebook for the world to see. Robert Allman, of Dimension Data Australia, looks at how to build a competent CRM architecture in this age of social media, and public complaint.
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Creating a social media strategy
Learn how to use social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as a medium for customer service and support. Andrew Collins takes a look at how your social media customer support channel should operate, how to encourage community growth and which department inside your organisation should take responsibility for social media.
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No presence on Facebook means no credit
A company without a Facebook profile is just asking for the world to guess at its social worth, one media guru has claimed.
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Apathetic attitudes to security when using social networking sites
New research by Check Point and the Ponemon Institute has revealed nearly half of Australian employees rarely or never consider security issues when engaging in social networking sites, downloading internet applications, opening links or video streaming. This apathetic attitude can put organisations at severe risk, particularly as Web 2.0 presents increasingly sophisticated threats. It’s time employees took responsibility for their actions in the workplace.
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A fundamental shift in security
For a number of years, the security industry built effective defences from security threats using technologies including firewalls, anti-virus software and intrusion prevention systems. However, today, the majority of security threats have moved to the web instead of through email, and attackers’ techniques have matured. This shift, coupled with the proliferation of collaborative Web 2.0 sites, has changed the threat landscape and the way businesses need to think about security. Websense’s Adam Bradley walks us through the changing landscape.
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Do you need Web 2.0?
Ovum's IT Research Director in Australia/NZ, Dr Steve Hodgkinson, discusses Ovum research that will help you understand the opportunities of Web 2.0 platforms and decide if they are a good fit with the social character of your organisation
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Hacking accelerates on Web 2.0 sites
In the past, typically only web page authors created and posted content. Today, blogs and other dynamic websites enable anyone to create and post content
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Numara Cloud IT operations management solution
Numara Cloud is a cloud-based IT operations management (ITOM) solution. The set of IT service life cycle, endpoint life cycle and mobile device management solutions supports physical, virtual and mobile devices.
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Crisis symposium to examine social media during disasters
An Australian symposium on the role of social media during disasters will assess the role of tools such as Twitter and Facebook in the recent Queensland floods, Christchurch earthquake and in future crises.
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More than 4100 Aussie businesses get online with Google, MYOB website tool
More than 4100 Australian businesses have used the Getting Aussie Business Online tool from Google and MYOB to create a website in the three weeks the tool has been operational.
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Australians ahead in the security game
Australian organisations are doing well when it comes to security but could do better.
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Government websites do not meet accessibility guidelines
UsabilityOne reports that Federal governent websites prove to be inaccessible for some Australians.
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Australian companies dodge social media
Australian businesses have so far ignored social media as a way of connecting with customers, according to new research from IT consultancy Avanade.
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CIOs must embrace Web 2.0 users, FITT forum says
Organisations need to supply the increasingly web literate workforce with the collaboration tools employees expect, in order to support productivity.
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Enterprise 2.0: Asia–Pacific's answer to economic slowdown
Global economic slowdown will soon push organisations in the Asia–Pacific region to employ social networking tools like blogs and wikis.
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BigPond reaches out to Web 2.0
Telstra’s BigPond leapt aboard the Web 2.0 bandwagon today, announcing user-generated content services for its broadband customers, including an office productivity application and a venture into virtual world SecondLife.
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Australian ICT looking good for 2008, but Web 2.0 neglected
The Australian ICT industry is confident of its success in 2008, but has so far neglected to put Web 2.0 to use in business, according to a recent study from KPMG and the Communications Alliance.
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Australian businesses avoiding Web 2.0
The subject of Web 2.0 and search engine optimisation (SEO) has been publicly raised again today, with a statement from online community developer Venture Logic claiming that Australian businesses have yet to fully commit to Web 2.0, and are suffering for it.
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Alternative application delivery models to change market: Gartner
Analyst firm Gartner has released a list of 14 new application delivery models that it believes will transform the IT industry in the coming five years. Heading the list is the increasingly popular software as a service (SaaS) model.
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Ovum wary of potential 'Bubble 2.0'
ICT industry analyst Ovum has commented on the rumoured 10% sale of social networking website Facebook to Microsoft. According to Ovum, the website is merely another collaboration tool, and the sale could mark the beginning of another ‘dot-com bubble’.
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Job hunting enters Web 2.0
Jobspeed IT today launched Jobspeed.com.au, a job-hunting website targeted at the Australian ICT industry, built on Web 2.0 technology.
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Conroy gets gamer kudos
The Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) has publicly praised the appointment of Senator Stephen Conroy to the position of Minister for Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy.
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SA hospitals to share patient information via web
Public hospital staff in South Australia will soon have access to patient records through a web-based information system, thanks to updates to the careconnect.sa initiative.
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Salmat deploys Web 2.0 security protection
Salmat, a communications specialist company that engages consumers through one-to-one communications, has deployed the Websense Web Security Gateway to provide it with real-time security protection from dynamic Web 2.0 threats.
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