Tag Archives: Social Business

Cognitive Surplus and Social Business: Win-Win Strategy

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: July 25, 2010

Social Networking technology has made it incredibly easy and inexpensive for people to collaborate and work together irrespective of their physical location. Given the proliferation of high speed internet access from home and mobile devices, something unthinkable even a few years ago (remember those dial-up modems), we are increasingly going to see people from diverse [...]

Cognitive Surplus: Implications for Social CRM

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: July 4, 2010

Clay Shirky is one of the leading thinkers on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and is well known for his talks on Cognitive Surplus. He believes that loose collaboration enabled by new technologies (such as Social Media) can change the way society works with the aid of “spare” brainpower. Listen to [...]

From Search to Share: How Google can win in Social Age

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: June 19, 2010

Google is one of the great success stories of internet age. Given its mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, it has achieved remarkable success by focusing on search results and monetizing clicks. But Google’s revenue model is under threat in the age of Social Media. Facebook recently surpassed [...]

Social Media Vision 2020

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: February 26, 2010

Excellent interview of Chris Brogan by David Thomas of SAS Institute on biggest change Social Media will bring to the way we do business. Social Media according to Chris Brogan: Lot of light as compared to heat Puts human face back on Business Big companies have a chance to feel small and human again Individuals have an opportunity to compete [...]

Really? Social Media Better Done “In house”

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: February 7, 2010

Results of CMO Club Weekly Poll published on BW blog made some interesting reading. Question that was asked was “Which of your groups is best equipped to help you with your social media efforts today?” 114 CMOs responded: 65.6% In House 15.6% Interactive Agency 9.4% PR Firm 9.4% Social Media Agency 0% Creative/Ad Agency Why majority of respondents preferred In House Agency rather than [...]