Anith Gopal

I’ve been giving some thought to how I can better leverage various communications and social media to help promote the great work that folks in the Microsoft Developer Community (and beyond) are doing, and one of the channels I’ve been using is Twitter . For those of you who might not be aware, I’m on Twitter as devhammer , and I also have another account, CommMegaphone , which I use primarily for new event notifications when events are added to Community Megaphone .

Cloud computing, in particular the move of email and other business productivity services out of your data center and into the cloud has a rising interest in the chemical industry. I’d like to share this new case study featuring Coca-Cola Enterprises , the world’s largest marketer, producer and distributor of Coca-Cola products. While certainly not a chemical company, the challenges they faced will be familiar to this community – rationalizing a complex IT vendor landscape, driving IT costs down, and delivering a unified collaborative workspace and corporate intranet across their 72,000 employees.

There are three interesting posts this week from various sources around Social Media.  First one really underlines why it cannot be ignored.  After reading the post ‘Social media now more popular than personal email – Neilsen’ and looking at the statistics of internet usage I have to admit this is the way that I communicate to a number of my friends.  Whereas a year or two ago I would email friends, now I often just send messages on Facebook.

The London Bridge has it’s own twitter feed… http://twitter.com/towerbridge Technorati Tags: Social Networking , Interesting

Apple has a history of either buying apps or boldly copying features from developers and including them in OS X.

Microsoft announces the creation of the “Social Enterprise Alliance” , a partnership centered on the customization and integration of MOSS for the purposes of creating social computing solutions. The alliance is a collaborative partnership between Telligent Systems ,  speakTECH and Microsoft to create integrated industry-centric social networking solutions.

With the growth of Social Networks and Communities, we see a lot of conversations, recommendations of products and services happening outside of the retailer’s site.

Visit our Facebook page and become a Fan! Thanks, “GrapeVine”

The early 90s didn’t have as many options for going viral compared to today but in 1992 Snapple found out that not paying attention to customer conversations can be very damaging to business.

Happy Friday.  The customer presentations from the Global Energy Forum are now posted.  Check them out . -Brian

I have to admit, I do think Wordle is great.  It is a really interesting way of viewing what is being talked about in blogs, web pages etc.  Thought I would run it against this blog and this is what it produces:   It would be interesting to see how politicians react to seeing their talks reduced down to this format.  Looking at Obama’s acceptance speech ‘America’ and ‘Promise’ rise to the front, and even www.usa.gov are analysing the words they use .

Today’s guest blog post is from 3Sharp, the primary developer of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint.