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Time is Running Out for the CIO to Lead on Social Media

November 7, 2011
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Print PDF When I was setting my clocks back this weekend for Daylight Savings Time, I started thinking about how some CIOs are at risk of getting left behind on social media. The current situation is similar to what transpired at the dawn of e-Commerce back in the mid-90s. CIOs were dragging their feet on e-Commerce rollouts so the sales and product teams took matters into their own hands. They hired outsiders and cut CIOs out of ...

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Social Media Monitoring and Analysis

February 17, 2011
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Print PDF Guest post by Jeff Auker The market for the monitoring and analysis of social media conversations is beginning to hit its stride, so CIOs should expect a growing demand from your marketing colleagues for assistance selecting, installing, and maintaining a social media intelligence tool set. In conversations with CMOs here’s what they say they are looking to learn from social media conversations: The explosion of uncontrolled communication and the proliferation of channels represent ...

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7 Great iPad Apps for CIOs

October 8, 2010
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Print PDF As we head into the weekend, maybe you will be sitting down with a coffee tomorrow morning with your iPad, wondering what to do with it beyond read email and looking at a few websites.  I thought I would share a few ideas for how you can get more out of it, especially focusing on iPad apps that a CIO or IT leader would appreciate. Most people I’ve talked to and commentary I’ve ...

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CIO’s Explore Twitter for Business – Webinar Recap

September 24, 2010
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Print PDF The CIOs of Sony Pictures and Clorox weren’t sold on Twitter at first, as they explained during the webcast yesterday, “CIOs Reveal Why They Tweet”. Ralph Loura, the CIO of Clorox, made a promise to himself that he would stick with it for a month to see what he got out of it. David Buckholtz, Divisional CIO for Sony Pictures, had established hundreds of LinkedIn connections before sending one tweet. It was using ...

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5 Things I’ve Learned About Twitter

June 1, 2010
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Print PDF I started the CIO Twitter Dashboard a year ago today as an experiment to see what IT leaders were doing and saying with Twitter. Since then, it has grown to about 200 strong.  While there are many more IT leaders and experts using Twitter, I have kept this list focused on CIOs or those who are the senior most IT leaders in their organization – please let me know who I’ve missed and ...

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Are IT Leaders Also Social Media Leaders?

April 28, 2010
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Print PDF “Why can’t we offer our app on the iPhone?” is a question heard more and more in the executive suite.  It’s a great example of consumer demand (or at least perceived demand) for information technology outpacing the capabilities of our enterprises.  I wonder if we are seeing the same thing in social media or if enterprises have done enough research to determine that various social channels are or are not a good fit? ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – September 11, 2009

September 11, 2009

Print PDF The travel doesn’t seem to quit as I hit London this week and will be back next week too.  Here are some of the great CIO and IT leadership tweets of the week that I’ve been able to collect while in the Admirals Club. [tweetlist:3785207801] 1.  I haven’t heard much from the 1-to-1 marketing guru Don Peppers lately but stumbled on this post.  I like it because it’s not coming from an IT ...

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Social Media as the CIO’s Trojan Horse

September 10, 2009

Print PDF By Chris Curran and Rajesh Balaraman Many senior IT leaders in the US believe that they are beyond the first level of business engagement.  They have established IT’s value in general and have regular ways to interact with other parts of the organization, both to establish strategic plans and for specific project design and requirements.  Unfortunately, other parts of the world are not this far along. We recently spent some time with over ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 21, 2009

August 21, 2009

Print PDF I’m posting this weeks Top 5 list from Beijing as I get ready for the CTO Forum Conference.  Sorry if my writing seems a bit jet-lagged and for the low volume (read: none) of Tweets.  China still seems a bit put off by Twitter. [tweetlist:3388084576] [tweetlist:3392741191] 1-2. The first post set of a series of conversations about the differences between a list of IT thought leaders on Twitter and a list of CIOs ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 14, 2009

August 14, 2009

Print PDF This week’s #CIO tweets were overshadowed by John C. Dvorak’s assertion that our nation’s CIO, Vivek Kundra, is a fraud – at least his resume might be. You will need to make up you own mind on that one. [tweetlist:3266652940] 1.  I have been a PC Magazine reader for years, but never got into reading John C. Dvorak’s rants.  Never could really understand half of what he was saying.  His Tweet Wednesday grabbed ...

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