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Open comms and the future of communications?

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Open comms; an admirable world of voices to listen to and to watch wind blowing data! When we think about communications for business, were is the wind blowing? Optimists can point to the introduction of new areas powered by social technologies that somehow open business towards a relation and interaction with customers, new structures of [...]

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Be prepared for the coming ”War for Co-Creators”

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The strategic relevance of ethics, commitment and rewards in Co-Creation   Ethics in Social Media Research – the privacy debate In the market research community the discussion about data privacy and guidelines for social media research (mainly focused on listening) is peaking right now as ESOMAR, CASRO, MRS and other Market research associations have published [...]

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Open business: Online Activism interview with Greenpeace Social Media Team

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The organisations that will succeed will use their available resources to discover people who care about the same things they do and bring them together to achieve shared goals. Charities demonstrate the model. The cause-related enterprise, the belief-driven business – an organisational model which places the customer at the heart rather than at the end [...]

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Open Research: consumer demand and business agility

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Open Research and the critical challenge for Business Research is critical for business. The systematic investigation about what is necessary for a given business, product, audience is something that any organisation needs to bear in mind, namely in a social media world. This can also be done though a concept of Open Research: a study [...]

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Open Planning Challenges for an effective Digital Strategy

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What makes an effective Digital Strategy and Planning? Open Planning comes associated with the concept of a solid Digital strategy in a social business environment. Being the definition of Digital associated to the idea from strategy: the process of specifying an organization’s vision, goals, opportunities and initiatives in order to maximize the business benefits for [...]

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Open Data as a Driver for Business and Brands

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Open Data is the driver for new business It is a fact that the ever increasing competitive landscapes do indeed blur consumer demands, business needs to be capable to adapt rapidly and cost-efficient to that landscape, ever evolving environment and technologies and its target audiences. In order to do, manage this challenges in an effective [...]

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