Tag: social media
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GE’s PowerOn systems helping utilities to work smarter
We at GreenMonk have been researching and writing about the smart grid space for over six years now. It has long been a sector which resisted significant change, but no more. Several factors have come into play which has ensured that the smart grid we envisioned all those years ago, is now starting to come…
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Sustainability, social media and big data
The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before. Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day.…
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15 Twitter tips for beginners – updated
I wrote a post a couple of years back called 15 Twitter tips for beginners which, though two years old, still has useful information for Twitter users – especially if you make sure to read all the comments as well. Needless to say, things have moved on considerably in the intervening period – bear in…
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Social Sustainability and the importance of sharing
I wondered for a while what to post on first here after the re-branding of the site and the new focus on Social Sustainability. First I thought about doing a post about blogging seeing as it is one of the most basic building blocks of social media but then I took a step further back…
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Tom Raftery’s Social Sustainability – site re-brand
I started this blog back in July 2004 – back then a lot of my posts were centered around Open Source and web technologies in general. Back then the blog was branded Tom Raftery’s IT views. Then in April 2007 I (belatedly) re-branded the blog Tom Raftery’s Social Media because I had been blogging almost…
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Sustainability reporting in tech companies – the hardware vs software divide
I wrote (and subsequently updated) a post a few weeks ago reviewing the Sustainability Reports of various companies in the technology space. I updated the review again this afternoon (see the updated review below) with the 2009 reports from IBM, Adobe and SAS. Something which struck me previously, and which hasn’t changed […]
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What is Social Media's 'big thing' for 2008?
Photo Credit darkmatter First off – a big apology to everyone who is subscribed to this blog for the lack of postings in the last number of months. I haven’t stopped blogging, it is just that since I started working for RedMonk, the focus of my writing has changed and it is now more appropriate…
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Should employers be blocking access to Facebook?
I was speaking to journalist Dermot Corrigan the other morning about Facebook. He was writing an article for yesterday’s Sunday Business Post on how companies have started blocking access to Facebook for their employees. This is presumably on the back of articles like the one in the Telegraph recently which claimed that: More than two…