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DEFINITION: Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals. While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Internet to promote such connections  … 
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Innovative Collaboration to Advance Your Business
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WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn how to bypass the challenge of adding new collaborative capabilities to what you already have and how to deal with dispersed content sources and system redundancies.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Collaboration: Across the Room or across the Globe
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WHITE PAPER: Learn about collaboration capabilities such as unified communications and VoIP, enteprise instant messaging and web conferencing, as well as web 2.0 technologies.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1
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SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Download a free trial version of Lotus Quickr 8.1
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 27 Jun 2008
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Quickr for Small and Medium Business
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WEBCAST: IBM Lotus® Quickr is a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering designed to transform the way everyday business content, such as documents and rich media can be shared and to enable more effective team collaboration.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Social Computing for Organizations: Open Text in the Web 2.0 Paradigm
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses on how companies can benefit from the growing opportunities provided by social computing.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
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Mastering Communities: Benefits and Best-practices for Implementing Online Customer Communities
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WEBCAST: In this webcast series, explore best-practices from industry leaders at companies like Intel and Turner Broadcasting/CNN, as they share strategies on how to start, grow, and maximize the benefits of online customer communities.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Q&A Interview
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WHITE PAPER: In this document, HiveLive CEO John Kembel defines customer communities and explains why marketers??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? interest in them is more than justified.
Posted: 20 May 2008 | Published: 20 May 2008
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Business Social Software Jeopardy!
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WEBCAST: What is hype and what is real, when web 2.0 technologies get implemented by large enterprises? This webcast challenges experts from Forrester Research and Forum One to answer questions on how companies are successfully leveraging online communities.
Posted: 20 May 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Engaging B2B Customers with an Online Community - a VMware Case Study
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WEBCAST: Savvy industry-leading companies are leveraging online communities to attract customers, support users, and build brand loyalty. In this Webcast, learn about successful initiatives and share discoveries from VMware's thriving B2B user community.
Posted: 20 May 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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The Business Value of Social Networking Applications
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the development of the social networking market, provides an overview of the benefits to be derived from using social networking technologies and explores the role of social networking vendors in this critical market.
Posted: 04 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
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SOCIAL COMPUTING DEFINITION (continued): …  is only now being fully recognized and exploited, through Web-based groups established for that purpose.

Based on the six degrees of separation concept (the idea that any two people on the planet could make contact through a chain of no more than five intermediaries), social networking establishes interconnected Internet communities (sometimes known as personal networks) that help people make contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be unlikely to have met … 
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