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Social media is rising beyond just likes and retweets. Social media continues to shape the digital marketplace with how brands can engage their consumer. Whether its through a sponsored link on Twitter, an inline ad with Facebook, or retail placement on Pinterest, an understanding of the current trends will go a long way to producing a successful social media marketing campaign.

This white paper takes a look at the adoption and evolution of social IT within ServiceNow.

This report provides some of the best practices for automating your recruiting in social media and the best channels to use.

In this report, we examined the online conversations around Fashion Week in New York, London, Paris and Milan to find out exactly what makes fashion enthusiasts and buyers tick—and reveal trends and insights to help make fashion brands smarter.

This white paper examines the role social media can play in presenting a more strategic view of customer data and how the right combination of technologies can deliver insight to help companies more effectively meet perpetually shifting consumer demands expressed through, and influenced by, these dynamic communication channels. Discover the implications of social media for marketing and sales, as well as IT. And learn the how and why social media tools and applications can be integrated with existing technology investments.

Does your workforce have a social media policy established? According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, "Fifty-four percent of U.S. companies say they've banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace, while on the job."

Even though you may not be familiar with the term “social media”, chances are you’ve heard about it or maybe even are using it to communicate in your personal life. But is social media successfully making the crossover from personal pastime to business tool? This blue paper outlines the different types of tools in the social media toolkit and proposes ways they can be used to promote your brand, communicate with your customers and help grow your business.

A lot has changed in the 10 years since Facebook first launched. No longer are social networking sites just a place where people can stay in touch with friends. Now, 30 percent of people use Facebook as their primary source of news. While Facebook is still the number one social network, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest are all growing at steady rates and millions of users are accessing these sites from the palm of their hand with smartphones and other mobile devices. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can leverage social networking to quickly reach users and entire online communities to boost your business.

Social media allows people to be more connected than ever before and the mediums available for marketing are changing rapidly as new technologies come available. Online users are communicating in real time and every brand in the world is being caught up in the conversation whether they are participating or not.

According to recent surveys, employee social networking is growing rapidly. Learn the pros and cons of employee social networking, from creating business development opportunities to just goofing off. Also, learn how social networking is raising new challenges for enterprise security, and the distinct advantages of implementing MessageLabs Web Services.

Check out this free webinar recording on ways to simplify social recruiting through technology.

In the first half of 2015, social engagement for the average U.S. brand grew 52% year over year across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Shareablee unpacks this social growth and examines which categories and brands are capturing the largest share across the social web.

One of the biggest challenges to effectively stopping breaches lies in sifting through vast amounts of data to find the proverbial “needle in the haystack” – the subtle clues that indicate an attack is imminent or underway. As modern computer systems generate billions of events daily, the amount of data to analyze can reach petabytes. Compounding the problem, the data is often unstructured, discrete and disconnected. As a result, organizations struggle to determine how individual events may be connected to signal an impending attack. In this context, detecting attacks is often difficult, and sometimes impossible. This white paper describes how CrowdStrike solved this challenge by building its own graph data model – the CrowdStrike Threat Graph? – to collect and analyze extremely large volumes of security-related data, and ultimately, to stop breaches. This revolutionary approach applies massive graph-based technologies, similar to the ones developed by Facebook and Google, to detect k

Download this report to learn about success stories and recommendations on how to take full advantage of innovative technology to help your efforts to attract and retain top talent.

Read this white paper to find out how WatchGuard Application Control lets you take back control of your network by keeping more than 1,500 applications in check, including IM, P2P, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, and many more.

If you're a brand marketer or digital agency looking to amplify your social marketing initiatives this year, this document will guide you through the growing world of Facebook apps. Today, there are more than 500,000 active applications on Facebook, but of these only 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users. You've downloaded this guide because you recognize that marketing today means creating a two-way dialogue with your customers.

Learn the 4 most effective ways to further the value of your social engagement and see how properly interacting with your audience will build your brand by creating a community.

For decades, organizations relied on traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) to organize, store, and analyze their data. But then Facebook came along, and an RDBMS was suddenly not quite enough. The social giant needed a powerful database solution for its Inbox Search feature, and Apache Cassandra—a distributed NoSQL database—was born. Released as an open source project in July 2008, Cassandra—named after the mythological prophet who famously put a curse on an oracle—became an Apache Incubator project in March 2009. It graduated to a top-level project in February 2010

Data is the solution to delivering the real-time, hyper-personalized experiences and comprehensive understanding that consumers are demanding.

Does social media marketing really work? How do you separate fact from fiction as you navigate your way through the buzz about "going viral"? Amidst the chatter about Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, Digg, Delicious, and Linked In-what will really get your business ahead? Tune in to find out as Oneupweb CEO Lisa Wehr and Social Media Director, Maureen Michaels team up to unveil the truth.

This white paper focuses on the critical need to manage outbound content sent via various avenues including email, Instant Messages, text messages, tweets, and Facebook posts.

As marketers, we use data at every level, from determining Facebook targeting to timing a major product launch. But how often do we take a look under the hood at the quality and usefulness of our data? In this playbook, we’ll cover the strengths and weaknesses of third-party, second-party, and first-party data and where declared data fits into the current data landscape. You’ll learn plays for activating declared data for: Qualified lead generation 1-to-1 email personalization Custom audiences and personalized retargeting Audience building and profiling In this section, we’ll cover the definitions, sources, and strengths and weaknesses of third-, second-, and first-party data.

As global employment prospects lag behind a slow economic recovery, customers in many parts of the world are more cautious and better informed than ever. They have access to a wealth of information about the products and services they seek, much of it obtained from trusted sources almost immediately. Yet businesses have moved slowly to exploit emerging technologies and information sources like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. As a result, customers often seem better informed about the products and services they buy than companies are about their customers. This imbalance presents a big challenge to companies struggling to avoid commoditisation and it could grow into a competitive disadvantage as customers demand more personalized service.

"Social advertising has become one of the best ways to connect with e-commerce customers and grow sales channels. Retailers and brands are clearly aware of this shift, as evidenced by the explosion of social-focused digital marketing strategies. Two of the world’s most-frequented social platforms, Facebook and subsidiary Instagram, have proven to be the most profitable. But with more than 5 million businesses advertising each month, competition is fierce. In this eBook, you’ll learn: - Why Facebook and Instagram are essential to e-commerce success - Which advertising options should be on every seller’s radar - How to maximize your presence on these top-performing social networks"

"Social advertising has become one of the best ways to connect with e-commerce customers and grow sales channels. Retailers and brands are clearly aware of this shift, as evidenced by the explosion of social-focused digital marketing strategies. Two of the world’s most-frequented social platforms, Facebook and subsidiary Instagram, have proven to be the most profitable. But with more than 5 million businesses advertising each month, competition is fierce. In this eBook, you’ll learn: - Why Facebook and Instagram are essential to e-commerce success - Which advertising options should be on every seller’s radar - How to maximize your presence on these top-performing social networks"