This course introduces the new look and features of Internet Explorer 7. You’ll learn how to use tabbed browsing, RSS feeds, and new Web search and printing tools. You’ll also learn how IE7 can help you avoid dangerous Web sites that try to phish for your personal information.
Class goals :
Describe the basic features of the Internet Explorer 7 interface
Open a web site in a new tab
Set a group of tabs as your Home or as a Favorite
Set the search providers available through the Instant Search box
Subscribe to an RSS feed
View your RSS feeds from the Favorites Center
Check a web site for phishing activity
Turn on Internet Explorer’s automatic Phishing Filter
Content of Internet Explorer 7 Series: Learning the New Interface and Features
The New Look
Tabbed Browsing
Searching the Web
Using RSS Feeds
Preventing Phishing Attacks
Training Internet Explorer 7 Series
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Salesforce has officially closed its acquisition of Buddy Media, but it looks like it is far from closing the door on what it intends to do in the space of enterprise and social communication. Today the company announced Social Communities, a private social networking service where users can engage with customers and partners using some of the features that have largely become commonplace in this era of social media. These include user profiles, real-time feeds, trending topics, recommendations and influence measurement. The platform also incorporates the cloud-based business processes and database services that form the core of Salesforce’s business today. Set for a limited pilot in the autumn 2012, the service will be available generally in the second half of 2013.
The move looks like a clear salvo from Salesforce to competitors that are also converging on the nexus of social tools and enterprise services. They include Microsoft — which already has Sharepoint and is upping the ante now with Yammer; as well as smaller companies like Huddle and Hootsuite, which respectively offer cloud-based collaboration platforms and social media dashboards to serve the two sides of enterprises’ social media needs.
It is also another step in the increasing consumerization of enterprise services. Salesforce notes that nearly a quarter of all time spent online is spent on social networks like Facebook and that people access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops.
And what it also does is potentially extend out the kinds of customers that Salesforce can target with its services: if the comany’s ethos started as a cloud-based database for people to track and reach out to sales leads, this product shows how Saleforce could potentially use its platform for significantly more.
“Today, more than ever, companies need to put customers at the heart of their business,” said Doug Bewsher, senior vice president, Salesforce Chatter, in a statement. “With Salesforce Communities, enterprises will be able to break the boundaries of their companies, connecting them much closer to their customers and partners.”
The move is part of Salesforce’s push to capitalize on that surge in interest in social media services, both as a way for people to collaborate with each other, but in the sales and marketing world, as a way of monitoring how well a campaign or brand is resonating with consumers. In that sense, Salesforce Communities looks like an all-things-to-all-people product: not only is it a social network for users to interact with each other, but it can be used as a place for people to research and mine social information that is relevant to their sales and marketing goals. Buddy Media and Saleforce’s other holdings are not mentioned in the release, but this IP will presumably also be included in the mix. Among the features:
– the ability to create “customer service communities” as well as ad-hoc marketing communities for particular campaigns
– networks for companies to serve their partners, suppliers and distributors, “to drive more sales through seamless deal registration, access to proven sales tools and collaboration with the right experts.”
– creating social networks for specific functions, such as retailers ”delivering custom shopping experiences” and universities creating alumni networks.
There is even an element of Facebook Groups to Communities: One customer that is using it, GE Capital, noted that it had used the platform to deploy “more than 50 custom communities,” between the firm and its partner companies. ”Our goal was to build deeper relationships with our mid-size business partners across the world, and be seen as builders, not just bankers,” said Ian Forrest, vice president, Global Marketing, GE Capital, in a statement.
Salesforce is an enterprise cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. The company is best known for its on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. Salesforce was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, and went public in June 2004. Salesforce has been a pioneer in developing enterprise platforms through its innovative AppExchange directory of on-demand applications, and its Force.com “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) API for extending Salesforce.
Early investors finally had the opportunity to sell their Facebook shares today, the company’s stock (NASDAQ:FB) sunk to its lowest price yet at $19.69 before closing down 6.23% to $19.87, its smallest closing price to date. Those are not milestones you want to see.
Facebook warned the market yesterday that there would be a downturn today. Today marks the first lockup expiration of Facebook’s gradual release of shares. Accel reportedly distributed a big portion of its stake to limited partners who then sold, and Facebook still has to endure the November expiration when long-time employees gain the freedom to sell.
About 271 million shares became eligible today from investors such as Microsoft, Accel Partners, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs and Peter Thiel.
Back in May, its shares opened at just over $42. Since then, it has been a roller coaster ride for the share, with more downward slopes than expected.
The share price already dropped below $20 two weeks ago prompting some to ask whether it was cheap enough to start buying. But it still has far to potentially fall. As noted by WSJ’s Dennis K Berman, if it traded at Google’s same 14.7x earnings multiple on future earnings, $FB would be at $7.97.
Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 845 million monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original…
There isn’t a CEO in the world who wouldn’t do well to try and emulate the late Steve Jobs in some way, shape or form. He was a visionary, and took Apple from a relatively low point to being one of the most successful companies in the history of the world. But trying to be him, or just like him, would be a vain endeavor.
An hilarious tipster brought to our attention that Jack Dorsey, a Twitter co-founder and Square founder and CEO, may be attempting the latter. In fact, the tipster was gracious enough to bundle up all the evidence in a cute little Tumblr.
EXHIBIT A: ON GETTING FIRED
In 1987, Jobs was fired from Apple, from which he went on to work with NeXT and Pixar, later returning to be the CEO of Apple. But when he was asked to leave the company he had helped build, he told Playboy the following:
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach.
Dorsey suffered through a similar situation, wherein he was made chairman of Twitter but no longer an employee. He told Vanity Fair:
It was like being punched in the stomach.
EXHIBIT B: “THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE”
Steve Jobs was a part of many unprecedented changes. The iPod changed the music industry. The iPad changed the computing industry. The iPhone? The iPhone changed everything.
But Jack Dorsey is a pioneer in his own right. He built a massive social network that has changed the way news travels. He is totally disrupting the credit card industry. So it only makes sense that the two would have the same feelings on their accomplishments. But apparently, they also have the same exact wording to describe it.
Jobs in 2010 at the D8 Conference:
Dorsey speaking with Kara Swisher in May 2011:
EXHIBIT C: “PROUD OF WHAT WE HAVEN’T DONE”
In 2008, Jobs explained that part of what makes Apple so successful, moreso than other tech companies, is that they’ve managed to turn such a huge profit on so few devices. He said to CNN Money:
I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. The clearest example was when we were pressured for years to do a PDA, and I realized one day that 90% of the people who use a PDA only take information out of it on the road. They don’t put information into it. Pretty soon cellphones are going to do that, so the PDA market’s going to get reduced to a fraction of its current size, and it won’t really be sustainable. So we decided not to get into it. If we had gotten into it, we wouldn’t have had the resources to do the iPod. We probably wouldn’t have seen it coming.
In February of this year, Dorsey had this to say in celebration of Square’s 3rd anniversary:
“Surprise and delight” is an incredibly common phrase in the tech world. Companies are always looking to please customers. In fact, “delight” is a word I hear a lot out of Microsoft executives. But lo and behold, it’s yet another thing that Mr. Jobs and Mr. Dorsey have in common.
Jobs at a 2010 Apple press conference:
Dorsey in 2011:
EXHIBIT E: THE BEATLES
Both Steve Jobs and Jack Dorsey have a fondness for The Beatles. Jobs even went so far as to use the iconic four-man band as an example of how to manage and be a part of a team:
Dorsey also makes The Beatles a regular part of his work life:
EXHIBIT F: “PUT IT ON THE SHELF” PHILOSOPHY
As has been made perfectly clear, Apple is all about focus. Rather than releasing hundreds of products a year, the company spends months and years developing a single product, perfecting it as much as possible. In any production environment with these standards, timing becomes very important. Sometimes, you must simply “put it on the shelf” and return another day.
Not surprisingly, Dorsey feels the same way:
Our tipster has a whole page full of examples, so I encourage you to head over to the Tumblr Steve Jobs Spirit and check it out. We’ll close with a word from the blog itself.
Stop trying to be me. Stop trying to be the next me. Be the first Jack Dorsey.
The neverending patent wars keep on raging, and Spotify is the latest to get targeted in the social media skirmishes. The popular music streaming company is getting sued by Nonend Inventions, a Dutch company, which claims Spotify is infringing on five of its U.S. patents covering streaming media, peer-to-peer search, and retrieval and playback techniques. Nonend says altogether it holds more than 40 issued patents and patent applications in the areas of peer-to-peer networking and streaming technology. This is the first suit it has filed in defense of these.
The complaint, which we have embedded below, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, against Spotify Limited and affiliated companies, today. Nonend is demanding a jury trial in the case.
Nonend says it is targeting Spotify and not Pandora or others because Spotify is built on a P2P architecture, meaning that users actually get very little of Spotify’s music from Spotify’s servers (8.8% Nonend claims); relying instead a distributed model using other subscribers on the network.
“This feature makes the Spotify service faster, more efficient, and less costly to operate, and uses the technology at the heart of the Nonend Patents,” the complaint says. Spotify, it notes, has three million U.S. subscribers who have shared over 27 million songs, and listened to over 13 billion songs. Spotify has been reportedly valued at $4 billion.
We have asked Nonend’s legal counsel if it plans to file suit against other P2P streaming companies as well. Nonend’s counsel, Richard C. Vasquez of Vasquez Benisek & Lindgren LLP, notes that Nonend has not yet, but would be willing, to license the technology.
This is not the first time that Spotify has been sued over patents. Just two weeks after it launched in the U.S. in 2011 it was sued by PacketVideo, which alleges that Spotify’s cloud-based music distribution architecture infringed on one of its patents. Spotify said at the time it would strongly contest that allegation. Spotify itself currently appears to have five patent applications with the USPTO but holds no assigned patents.
The is the latest in a series of social media patent suits. Facebook and Yahoo famously sparred over patents covering different features in Facebook until they finally reached an amicable settlement. Facebook itself has purchased and licensed dozens of patents for these features. Facebook is currently suing Mitel Networks, and Mitel is suing Facebook, over different features on the social network, so some of these newly acquired patents are coming into play.
Nonend Inventions describes itself as a “P2P and streaming technology innovator” but it doesn’t appear to have productized any of those innovations itself. Vasquez notes that when the technology was first created and the patents filed in 2000 and 2001, the company did have the “goal of becoming a streaming Internet radio company.”
Nonend’s website is very brief on what its current activities are: “Due to business developments this website is limited,” reads the homepage. It appears that all the patents in question at the moment (the exact phrase in the complaint is “include, but are not limited to”) have been created or co-created by Marc van Oldenborgh, who describes himself as the owner/inventor at Nonend on his LinkedIn profile.
The specific patents cited in the suit are U.S. Patent No. 7,587,508 (“Multiple Source Receiver-Driven Streaming of Content Between Peers”), U.S. Patent No. 7,590,752 (“Playing Media Content on a Media Player while Streaming the Retrieved Parts of the Media Content to Other Devices”), U.S. Patent No.7,779,138 (“Streaming Content Between Media Players Configured to Locate Each Other”), U.S. Patent No. 8,090,862 (“Initiating an Alternative Communication Channel for Receiving Streaming Content”), and U.S. Patent No. 8,099,513 (“Streaming Content from One or More Production Nodes or Media Player Systems”).
“The Nonend Patents have been recognized as state-of-the-art, cited as prior art in at least twelve (12) U.S. patents issued to the likes of IBM, Samsung, and Sony,” the complaint notes.
Financial damages are not specified in the complaint.
Facebook used to only let you set a single privacy setting for all your old profile photos, but now there’s a privacy widget on every past profile photo. This puts your Profile Photos album in a special category alongside Mobile Uploads that Facebook tells me “gives people more granular control” over photos you upload one at a time. More controls may translate into more willingness to upload photos.
Your current profile photo and cover photo are still public, though, so you might want to keep the beer and cleavage out of those.
All your other albums beyond Profile Photos and Mobile Uploads will only have a cross-album privacy setting that applies to every photo inside. The “Edit Album Privacy” button seen below was how the Profile Photos album previously functioned as well.
To make sure people undersand their newfound control, Facebook will be doing some education in the form of sidebar ads explaining the change and leading to the Help Center
It’s a big day for Facebook photo privacy, considering this morning it confirmed with Ars Technicathat after years of criticism from privacy groups and blog, its new server system completely erases photos users click the “delete” button on.
With these new controls, users may be more willing to share shots of themselves because they know they’ll always be able to control their visibility individually, and they can nuke them if need be.
This session has a unique social media approach, for the Retail Industry, providing valuable hands-on techniques and tools to understand and harness the opportunities of strategic social networks for your business.
Class goals :
How to make your brand /stores more visible in search and through networks
How to create a system that will allow you to execute your daily promotional activities in an organised and measurable way.
How to proactively engage with people in the different platforms and enhance your brand reputation online.
How to audit and monitor the online environment – what is being said about your brand/ organisation/industry.
How to leverage promotions blending online and offline activities.
Content of Social Media for the Retail Industry
We prepare all our social media trainings based on client’s objectives
How to get started
Choosing the platforms and devising a strategy
Geolocation: a huge retail ally
Twitter & Facebook Marketing
Online video for Retail (tool, resources and techniques)
Email marketing
Training Social Media for the Retail Industry
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