2008 Blogging for Business Conference: Early Bird Registration Open!

Last year we participated in the annual Blogging for Business Conference and it was a great event. This year’s event will be even better.
The theme this year is Engage. [Disclosure: Politis Communications is a sponsor of the conference] Isn’t that what we’re trying to do as marketing professionals? In most cases we want to engage [...]

The Slow, Lingering Death of I.T.

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“Is IT becoming extinct?” That’s the question posed yesterday by ZDNet blogger, Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret.
Krigsman outlines seven reasons why he believes Information Technology departments within organizations are on a permanent decline towards irrelevance and eventual death, including:

IT services have become a commodity.
Social media empowers users at the expense of IT.
Software as a service [...]

Who Owns Social Media Data? Scoble-Facebook-Plaxo Fracas Raises Questions

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In the last three days a simple disagreement between one blogger and one company has erupted into a major technology industry storm fraught with questions about data ownership, corporate rights and other muddy-water questions born because explosive technological advancements have outstripped the abilities of the legal system to referee differences caused by such growth.
This brewing [...]