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DEFINITION: Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called "Chains."In the 1950's, Ithiel de Sola Pool (MIT) and Manfred Kochen (IBM) set out to prove the theory mathematically.
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Social Networking Reports
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5 Reasons Why You Need Better Visibility of Your Network
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PRODUCT LITERATURE:
If you can't see what's happening, then you can't even begin to attack what's wrong with the network. Here are 5 concrete reasons why you should contact Blue Coat today and start working towards greater visibility of your network.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009
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Social CRM Comes of Age
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Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
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CIO Decisions Ezine Volume 5: Virtual Revolution
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EZINE:
Read this new volume of the CIO Decisions Midmarket Ezine to learn how server virtualization can save time, space and - perhaps most important - money. Experts and IT executives offer their insights and experience on the technology that's changing the data center.
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 | Published: 09 Feb 2009
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Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales
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This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This paper examines the challenges salespeople face, the growing Web 2.0 trend in the enterprise, and the drivers for a new breed of social applications that complement traditional CRM systems to help sales users close more deals quickly.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories with Data
sponsored by Tableau Software
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Data doesn't have to be only fact driven and metric. Learn these five best practices to help you make sense and order out of a disparate collection of facts.
Posted: 20 Feb 2008 | Published: 20 Feb 2008
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SOCIAL NETWORKING DEFINITION (continued):
Although they were able to phrase the question (given a set N of people, what is the probability that each member of N is connected to another member via k_1, k_2, k_3...k_n links?), after twenty years they were still unable to solve the problem to their own satisfaction. In 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory, which he called "the small-world problem." He randomly selected people in the mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient's name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send
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