by Ron Miller

Consumer search engines display burst of innovation

In a surprising display of simultaneous innovation, the three major search engines announced some significant changes this month.

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A callous disregard for compliance

New documents released recently when Goldman Sachs accidentally filed court papers with unredadacted documents show that companies considered regulations and compliance a pesky obstacle to be ignored in the years prior to the 2008 financial meltdown.

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Duh! Of course you need a social media strategy

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Hard to believe that Gartner reports that fully half of companies participate in social media without measurable objectives. You can't possibly succeed with a seat-of-the-pants approach.

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It's not your imagination, iPads are content magnets

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If you're a content creator, you know about the power of iPad. In case you had any doubts, yet another report drives it home. So if you don't have an iPad content strategy, what exactly are you waiting for?

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Andrew McAfee on the State of Enterprise 2.0

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Andrew McAfee coined the term Enterprise 2.0 back in 2006 and I spoke to him recently about the history of the sector and where it stands today.

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Flash May Not Be Dead, But It's Not Feeling Well

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When Adobe abandoned Mobile Flash last Fall, it was a shot across the bow for Web developers. A recent Wall Street Journal article indicated Adobe was ready to focus on marketing departments and seem to be moving on from Flash. It may be time for your company web site to do the same.

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Creating good content is harder than it looks

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While it might seem like a simple matter to produce content, if you're not a professional it's much harder than it appears. And when you get inside the typical enterprise, there are multitude of factors in play that can sabotage the best laid plans.

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Watching the Live Birth of a CMS Upgrade

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I write about content management every week for FierceContentManagement. Last week, I experienced a CMS upgrade first-hand when Fierce went through the process -- and it wasn't pretty, trust me. Don't try this at home.

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Your Cell Phone Could Be Less Secure Than You Think

What are the implications for IT when there is software out there can break a cell phone security code in inside of two minutes? And how are you supposed to protect the content sitting on the phone? Unfortunately, there don't seem to be many easy answers.

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There's an awful lot of data in the enterprise

At the AIIM Conference last week, it was data this and data that, and while it's wise to be skeptical when everyone starts talking about how a given technology can transform the enterprise, there could be something to data-driven decision making if we can figure out how to harness all of that data. #aiim12

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