CEMEX - Becoming a social business with IBM software

CEMEX, the third largest building materials company in the world, was looking to establish an internal social network to bring their global community closer together. After one year, over 17,000 employees have adopted the concept of the business social network. After starting with five business innovations, they now have nine in place. After opening the platform to everyone, they saw an explosion of communities started at around 400 and now numbers over 600. This new way of collaborating and...

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From: GenusTechnologies

Related topics : business social network software / global social networking market

John Kembel, HiveLive

Monday, August 25, 2008

Businesses Use "Hives" to Build Niche Communities

HiveLive, a platform for building business-oriented custom social communities, lets users create custom blogs, wikis, and forums with Web 2.0 building blocks called Hives.

While a social network like Facebook is geared toward the mass consumer market, HiveLive is carving out a viable niche for itself the enterprise market. The company's different focus means it isn't in direct competition with Facebook: "We work...

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From: BeetTV

Related topics : social network users / social network marketing companies

Atos Social Collaboration Enterprise Social Network

Your journey to social collaboration, enabled by Atos. With a collaborative environment, based on social media, the new workplace is wherever it needs to be and employees are free to work when and where they are most productive.

A move to Zero email™ addresses the challenges organizations face as a result of the continuing explosion in data. Atos' aim is to reduce internal emails between Atos employees by using improved communication applications as well as new collaboration and social media...

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From: Atos Group

Related topics : new social media tools / social enterprise network / internal social media tools

How SFCG Eliminated Email with Oracle Social Network

You’re probably already familiar with the concept of applying social networking tools to the business environment. After all, the majority of employees are already proficient with platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and instant messaging, so it seems only logical to leverage these skills in the workplace.

At SFCG, we have successfully eliminated internal email and increased our communication efficiency tremendously by using Oracle Social Network. It helps us keep our communication crisp...

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From: Jamie Smith

Related topics : social network email / business social network