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Eileen Brown delivers news on social media tools and trends and deep dive into business strategies.
Eileen Brown
Eileen Brown is a social media consultant and advisor who has been working with collaborative technologies for over 20 years.
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Weird Tech: 12 geeky uses for technology
Dream up new ways to use technology with these quirky and futuristic ideas.
Twitter community responds to funeral music rights plea
In under two hours Twitter provided help and a positive resolution to a request to play 'The Archers' theme tune at a funeral despite performance rights concerns.
Will Yammer lose its female advantage now it belongs to Microsoft?
Yammer has a high percentage of female staff that love its culture and progressive attitude. Will its acquisition by Microsoft start the gender drain, or will it encourage the larger company to increase its ratio of women hires?
Nostalgia Tech 4: 20 Vintage Apple ads
Take a look back in time with these vintage ads for Apple technology
Twitter turns to Amazon's Mechanical Turk judges to deliver more contextual ads
Twitter has built a real-time human computation engine to help identify trending search queries, send them to humans to be evaluated and incorporated into back-end systems for more targeted ad placement.
Will 2013 be the ‘year of freedom’ for knowledge workers?
Will we ever 'break free from proprietary apps' in the workplace and use our own devices to connect to our collaboration spaces? With tools like Harmon.ie, this might just be possible.
Nostalgia Tech 3: Vintage CES hardware
Imagine visiting the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the 70's, 80's and 90's. You would have probably seen these brand new pieces of tech, ready to be launched.
Grom Social site for kids could halt Facebook's growth
New social networking site Grom Social is created 'by kids for kids'. and is poised to attract young social networkers away from Facebook with its focus on safety and parental approval.
Kred brings transparency to influencer and outreach analytics
Social influence should not be measured around topics such as cheeseburgers, shopping or Windows 8. Kred reckons that influence should be measured on the topics that you share with others – your outreach.