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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

Everson most recently was VP of Facebook’s global marketing solutions which works with the social networks top agencies and advertisers. Headquartered in the Seattle-area, Avalara and Smartsheet are both publicly traded companies founded in 2004 and 2005, respectively. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

There is, for example, far more creativity involved in building software than is typically imagined. This is part of what makes software development so fulfilling and fun.” If you task a developer with building a widget, the time they spend fretting about how to make it reusable can net unpredictable benefits down the road.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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Microsoft enters enterprise social network software - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Unquestionably, good software, well-implemented, can be a powerful enabler. See some screenshots here. The real value is harder to tap.

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Employee Training Platform: 8 Best Features of an Employee Training Platform

Kitaboo

2004), HTML5, xAPI/TinCan, AICC, and LTI. The software should also enable employees to evaluate their performance through assessment and feedback needed by them to improve. Since your training material will be used across geographies, the software should also allow you to standardize the course content across locations.

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New LinkedIn deals - LexisNexis and Xobni - extend the reach of professional social networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Back in 2003 a number of corporate social networking applications were launched, notably Spoke, VisiblePath, and Contact Network Corporation. At the time there was one other significant player which was in a similar space, which was InterAction CRM software, owned by Interface. The LexisNexis deal is particularly intriguing.

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Ascent Index: Big Data

The Investing Edge

Since our April launch of the Ascent Enterprise IT Index , which measures social buzz around trend-setting topics such as virtualization, BYOD , cloud security and big data , we found big data to be the consistent winner with the most mentions – nearly 250,000.