DSS News
D. J. Power, Editor
April 24, 2011 -- Vol. 12, No. 9
A Free Bi-Weekly Publication of DSSResources.COM
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In this issue:
1) What is social media?
2) Recent DSS News Headlines
3) DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) What is social media?
by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
How we communicate, obtain and process information for personal
and work decisions is changing. The transformation toward using
more socially based information is due to developments with Web
2.0 (cf., Power, 2007) that have improved social media. In general,
social media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies
to enhance human communication and create dynamic, interactive
dialogues. Kaplan and Haenlein (2010) define social media as "a
group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological
and technological foundations of Web 2.0, which allows the creation
and exchange of user-generated content." This definition is very
general and people continue to disagree about the scope and hence
the meaning of the term social media.
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
04/21/2011 "This SMS Message Will Self-Destruct" - advanced
privacy and security for text messaging has arrived.
04/19/2011 MicroStrategy announces general availability of
MicroStrategy 9.2.
04/18/2011 Hormel Foods extends agreement with SignalDemand
for predictive analytics.
04/18/2011 GpsGate releases free GPS tracking software.
04/15/2011 New York State recovers millions of dollars in tax
debt with IBM technology.
04/15/2011 Teradata selected by Charter Communications for
new business intelligence platform.
04/14/2011 WineMatch integrates social media and pushes deals
direct to consumers.
04/13/2011 OpenERP news: map view of data by Camptocamp.
04/12/2011 Revolutionary business intelligence solution
introduces real data relevancy through automated insights.
Read the news at DSSResources.COM
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3) DSS Conferences
1. Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management track at AMCIS
sponsored by AIS SIG DSS, Detroit, MI, August 4-7, 2011.
Check http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/
2. Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence track at ICIS 2011,
Shanghai, China December 4-7, 2011.
Check http://icis2011.aisnet.org/track16.htm
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