Institute of Management Consultants: January Breakfast When: January 4, 2012, 7:30 am – 9:30 am What: Everything I Ever Needed to know About Consulting, I Learned from Alan Weiss Who: Our presenter will be Dan Weedin, who’s has been personally trained by Alan Weiss to help consultants accelerate their business; ignite their talent; and thrive both [...]
Pacific Associates & the Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center present the Business Breakfast Series for business owners, executives, hiring managers, training professionals, and HR professionals. The event’s speaker will be Cass Tang, PMP, owner and principal of Synergy Corps. You can find out more about this event online.
Graphic Artists Guild’s November workshop with Erik Fadiman. WordPress is everywhere these days, not just as a blogging platform but also as a Content Management System. If you’re ready to use blogging as a means of self-promotion, or you have clients who want to update their own websites, take a look at WordPress. You can [...]
Who: Marchex Position: Lead Campaign Manager, SEM Expert Where: Seattle What: Marchex, the technology company leading the Digital Call Advertising revolution, seeks an expert in the online marketing / search engine marketing industry to help our already amazing team achieve next level goals around advertising campaigns, training, and customer support.
Who: Manager, Advertising Services Position: Razorfish Where: Seattle What: Razorfish is one of the largest interactive agencies in the world and currently has more than 2,000 employees in 20 offices in seven countries focusing exclusively on digital marketing and technology. Each office is filled with opportunities for people who want to invent the digital future. [...]
Who: Open Text Position: Global Marketing Director Where: Bellevue What: Open Text™ (Nasdaq: OTEX; TSX: OTC) is the world’s largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The company’s solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world’s largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 [...]
ImageSource presents Nexus 2011. Nexus 2011 brings together world-class speakers, technology experts and peers to provide education about streamlining your information processes through advanced paperless technologies. Discover how to improve efficiencies, security, compliance and competition through Enterprise Content Management. Join leading industry vendors for first-hand look at eMerging technologies. You can find out more about [...]
Join us for a conversation on Change Management. Learn from experienced CIO’s on how they apply this structured approach from a current state to a future state while empowering their teams to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment. Speaker & discussion leader: CJ Venkataraman, CIO of Intellectual Ventures You can learn more [...]
Institute of Management Consultants: Pacific Northwest Chapter’s September Breakfast: A “fierce” consultant peels back the layers, speaking the truth, and pushes back when necessary. Of course, building the pitch for a solution that may cause some temporary pain or be met with some immediate pushback, is key. Attendees will get “hands on” time to craft [...]
The business world moves so fast, we can never afford to stop learning. This course will teach you how to start and grow your business. During seven, 3-hour sessions, participants will learn how to manage, market and finance their businesses, with a focus on writing a business plan. Participants will also enjoy networking with other [...]
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May 14 2012
Google Blinks! Bing Sings, and Slings the Arrows of Social Interface Discontent! Amazon’s Social “Denny Triangle!”
At last week’s Bing Search Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft took the wraps off a brand new Bing featuring a new, right-hand social column (“The Sidebar”) that will eventually include Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Quora and LinkedIn integration, as well as people who may know something about your most recent Bing query. The new Bing search even offers a way to ask questions on your favorite social network, directly through Bing. “The search engine has been reinvented!” wrote Mashable’s Lance Ulanoff.
In total, there are three new Bing columns in all:
* Core Search: minus many of the social annotations that Bing has added over the years (that have been relocated).
* Snapshot: providing additional information about a particular search listing, without having to leave Bing
* Sidebar: serving as the new home for social integration with search
“With this update, the competing search philosophies are clearer than ever,” opined Mashable. “Google sees the world as a deep blend of data, people and activities, all of which can be mined simultaneously for a rich and useful experience. Bing sees a more structured world, where social interactions, while extremely helpful, are kept a safe distance from the core results you desire.”
How does Bing build these “Friends Who Might Know” lists? Microsoft execs explained they’re leveraging as much publicly available data as possible from Facebook (for now) and soon Twitter and other networks. Inclusion in the list is not necessarily based on something you posted about the topic.
The sidebar includes people you know through your social networks that have, say, posted a photo about the topic, liked a certain relevant topic or searched for a similar topic in Bing, and people you don’t know, who are, for example, known Topic Experts and Enthusiasts (identified by Bing). All of them could be considered helpful in your quest for knowledge. Conversations revolving around a query topic are viewable through the social pane — you just hover over the activity and a small box will slide out to the left with the original post. You can add comments in any conversation in the activity pane or see the conversation in the slideout.
For example, a search for “Seattle restaurants” might pull up Facebook friends who have “liked” dining establishments in the metro area under a header that reads “Friends Who Might Know.” Bing users can also post comments or queries in the sidebar interface that will automatically be published to their Facebook page (provided they’re signed into Facebook) and could hypothetically flag their Seattle-based friends in posts seeking advice on where to go for dinner.
To see the new pane at work, you have to sign into Facebook and install the Bing App in Facebook. With that done, your social pane will be filled with recent Bing activity that’s also been shared on Facebook. When you enter a search query in the Bing interface on the left, the pane will also display a list of Facebook friends, and topic experts who might be able to assist with your query. Note: The Bing App defaults to sharing your posts with Everyone. If you do a lot of searching, you may want to dial that down a bit.
This deep integration with Facebook isn’t the first time the two have collaborated, and Bing has been adding social recommendations powered by Facebook to its search results for the past year. But it’s a sure sign that Microsoft — which bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million in 2007 — will lean on a company it’s heavily invested in to improve on the social-search product Google introduced in January. “Search Plus Your World” pulls up Google+ content deemed relevant to signed-in Google users and has gotten a tepid reception, said Adage. [24x7]
Amazon Advances Its Vision for a Social Campus Compass, Not an “Apple Circle,” but a “Denny Triangle.”
The City of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development has posted the latest renderings of Amazon’s proposed Denny Triangle campus.
At a public design review board meeting, attendees liked proposed amenities that include outdoor artwork, a playing field, a dog park and space for food trucks.
The venue also incorporates a healthy measure of social engineering into the design. To ensure public open spaces between buildings are both lively and safe, buildings are designed so that people who park their cars in the underground garages will have to walk outside to get from the garage elevators to the elevators in the building lobbies. “That will help ensure a steady flow of people moving through the plazas.”
The project will also be a haven for bicyclists. Each of the three blocks will have a dedicated bike entrance and storage for as many as 400 bikes. That could allow as many as 1,200 Amazon employees to bike to work. [24x7]