Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business.  The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.  The transcript of the 30 minute […]

Salesforce.com Bets Big On Social Media Monitoring And Socialytics Salesforce’s definitive agreement to acquire Radian6 continues the consolidation of 100’s of social software vendors in the marketplace.  Radian6, a social media monitoring and customer engagement platform, provides tools for companies seeking to harness the power of social media and related social networks.  Most customers utilize […]

Social Media Monitoring Addition Adds Social Customer Insight To Lithium’s Community and Social CRM Offerings Lithium, a social CRM (SCRM) and community platform vendor announced today it had acquired Scout Labs, a social media monitoring (SMM) provider.  According to a variety of sources, the estimated purchase price for the deal ranged between 20 and 25 […]

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Eliot Axelrod became Senior […]

This post was collaboratively written on a wiki with my colleague Jeremiah Owyang whose focus is on customer strategy which encompasses social technologies. Together, we’re covering convergence of the emerging and incumbent technology system.  This entry is also cross-posted on his blog. Jive Offers Brand Monitoring Using Radian 6 -Empowering Companies To Quickly Respond Jive […]