Clippings From Information Week’s The BrainYard, Enterprise Social Media Coverage

Here is some of the work I’ve been doing for Information Week’s enterprise social media microsite, The BrainYard (see realtime updates). David F. Carr | Aug 08, 2011 How To Exploit The Power Of Crowds Crowd Factory CEO Sanjay Dholakia explains how to apply and measure social interactions across all marketing channels. David F. Carr | Aug 05, […]

Forbes.com: Custom iPad App Is Just What the Doctor Ordered

Latest blog post for Forbes.com: Custom iPad App Is Just What the Doctor Ordered For Salient Surgical Technologies, a custom iPad app is just what the doctor ordered — or, rather, just the trick to get the doctor to place an order. “The thing about medical device sales is that it’s very difficult to get attention […]

Facebook iFrames: Good For Business, Bad For Security?

This was the kick-off column for my new gig with informationweek.com as a writer and columnist on “enterprise social media” (how businesses are applying social media to reshape sales, marketing, and corporate collaboration) Facebook iFrames: Good For Business, Bad For Security? David F. Carr | March 21, 2011 Legitimate developers will be pleased with the expanded […]

Forbes.com: Best Buy en Español Profits By Serving the Hispanic Market Better

Hispanic customers who shop on the web are giving their time and money to Best Buy in appreciation of its effort to speak their language. Best Buy offers an almost complete duplicate of its main English language website in Spanish at http://espanol.bestbuy.com/enes/. As a result, Best Buy finds that users of its Spanish language spend twice […]

My Debut as a Gleanster Analyst

This report on Top Performers Adopt Cloud Computing for Business Intelligence is part of a series of research projects I’m doing with Gleanster. The forthcoming main report on BI will also include a formal market research survey conducted by Gleanster staff, with some input from me on the questions to ask. I’m also planning to […]

Boardroom Journal: Talent at Risk

An article for Boardroom Journal, a publication from the editors of InformationWeek, on hiring and retaining the right people and why it’s important, even in (or maybe especially in) this economy. Despite the InformationWeek connection, the focus was on talent management across the organization, in customer service as much as in IT. Download the PDF […]

Fast Times At A Global Web Flower Shop (Forbes.com column on web performance and search optimization)

Commentary Fast Times At A Global Web Flower Shop David F. Carr, 08.13.10, 06:00 AM EDT How daFlores speeds load times, boosts search engine optimization. Francisco Bustos, president of the international flower delivery company daFlores (www.daflores.com), does some of his best keyword research and market research while traveling throughout Latin America. Because he does business not […]

Using WordPress for Enterprise Content Management

My piece for IT Expert Voice on how big companies are using WordPress, particularly as it matures beyond being “just a blogging tool.” Using WordPress for Enterprise Content Management By David Carr – Jul 23, 2010 Enterprise technology managers looking to improve the management and functionality of their corporate websites ought to take a closer […]

How Facebook Changes Marketing and Sales (Forbes.com column)

Free Tool: Create a Lead Capture Form That Connects Facebook to Your Website Just out on Forbes.com: How Facebook Changes Marketing And Sales: Author of ”The Facebook Era” on the glories of hypertargeting customers. This is a Q & A with Clara Shih, author of “The Facebook Era,” which I’ve already previewed with a blog […]

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