Google+ Circles vs. Facebook Lists
Background Back in 2009, in “The etiquette and math of follow in Twitter“, I wrote about the differences between followers and followings in Twitter vs. friends in Facebook. Friendship in Facebook is a...
View ArticleFacebook Subscriptions, Follow without Frienship
In my last post, Google+ Circles vs. Facebook Lists, as well as other related posts, I discussed the concept of friends and lists in Facebook and contrasted it to Google+ circles as well as following...
View ArticleA top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profile in 2012?!
Recently I got an email from LinkedIn that I have one of the top 1% most viewed profiles on LinkedIn in 2012! See image below. My first reaction was to check and make sure that it was not a spam or...
View ArticleIntroduction to Competitive Intelligence
The other day I came across this quote by Henry Ford (cited in Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman): “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business...
View ArticleCompetitive Intelligence Process and Best Practices
In the previous post, Introduction to Competitive Intelligence, I provided an overview of CI and introduced a high-level CI process. In this post I discuss the process in further detail and provide CI...
View ArticleFile Sync and Share, and Collaboration in the Cloud
Background One of the interesting developments in software and cloud in the recent years is the so-called file sync and share space that started to shape up in mid to late 2000s. Back in 2011 I spent a...
View ArticleBuilding and Marketing a Product: Product Management vs. Product Marketing
I often get questions about product management and product marketing from potential clients and employers: what they entail, how they’re different from one another, how they work together, what are the...
View ArticleSocial Platforms for Business
Background Widespread adoption of social networking in the consumer market by late 2000s, got the attention of B2B software vendors early on. Employees in an organization can potentially use a...
View ArticleMissing out on stuff on Facebook? Here is how to fix it.
I run a few pages and groups on Facebook. For some time now some fans and members have been complaining that they don’t get any updates from me. I am a fan of many pages on Facebook myself. A while...
View ArticleOptimization in process and rule based systems using machine learning
Traditional process and rule systems The traditional approach to optimization in process and decision support systems is to model the problem using a framework (e.g. business processes, business rules,...
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