22nd
August
2012
MaxHire Solutions President Peter Blitz today announced the outstanding growth and success of a unique and innovative approach to Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Blitz is leading the way by leveraging a social media CRM philosophy and directly connecting with his customers through MaxHire’s LinkedIn discussion group. Read the rest of this entry »
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22nd
August
2012
Today Frima Studio visits NYC to kick-off the Frimarathon, a month long flurry of game releases with a little something for everybody. The culmination of more than a year of effort by Frima’s original IP team, the Frimarathon will showcase five titles across multiple platforms set to be released in the next five weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
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21st
August
2012
Wishpond has officially launched its new social commerce platform for small businesses— Wishpond Social Buttons. Think of them as super-charged Like buttons—shoppers engage on ecommerce websites to share expressive stories and recommendations to their social network on Facebook. The platform is designed to allow businesses to leverage the Open Graph on any website without spending $10,000’s to hire developers or purchase enterprise solutions. Read the rest of this entry »
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21st
August
2012
Montreal developer Hibernum Creations has announced that its hit action-puzzle game Blockolicious is now available to play for free on Facebook! Appropriate for players of all ages, Blockolicious for Facebook is published in cooperation with KONAMI and includes new socially-connected leaderboards that really juice up the competition across every version of the game. From the massive chains of Marathon Mode to the heart-pounding rush of Sprint Mode, players everywhere can have a taste of Blockolicious’ arcade action in their favorite browser today. Read the rest of this entry »
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21st
August
2012
As the use of social media in the workplace continues to become a widespread reality in the corporate world, staffing, recruitment and HR Services provider Randstad Canada, says today’s leading employers must learn how to harness these “social business” tools, if they haven’t already. Read the rest of this entry »
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20th
August
2012
Montreal’s Echoer, a mobile app that makes it easy to share local experiences and see what other people are thinking and experiencing in the places around them, is now available for Android devices. Initially released on iPhone earlier this year, the app curates users’ thoughts and experiences by relevance, placing the best content on the map to give timely and popular recommendations. Read the rest of this entry »
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16th
August
2012
Building on the App Directory’s recent momentum, HootSuite has introduced an update to one of the service’s first integrations – Get Satisfaction. The Get Satisfaction app, which is free to all HootSuite users, is newly refreshed with plugin capabilities in addition to the existing stream-based features. Users now have the ability to create Get Satisfaction community topics from individual Twitter and Facebook updates as well as search Get Satisfaction community content. Read the rest of this entry »
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14th
August
2012
HootSuite, the maker of a market-leading social media management system, has added Yammer, the private enterprise social network, to its ever-expanding App Directory, allowing users to monitor and reply to their Yammer conversations without leaving the HootSuite dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »
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2nd
August
2012
Enterprise social software company Igloo Software has unveiled the next-generation version of their collaboration suite, including support for multilingual translation. The move breaks the language barrier by enabling international teams to rapidly and accurately translate content in the language of their choice. The additions are part of Igloo’s summer release, called Pearl, and allow employees within an organization to communicate seamlessly regardless of location, time zone, device and now language. Read the rest of this entry »
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31st
July
2012
The makers of social media management system HootSuite have strengthened their ever-expanding App Directory with the introduction of social app plugins. App Plugins make it easier for HootSuite’s nearly 5 million global users to access HootSuite’s social network content from the dashboard, with the option of sending individual posts (native to Twitter or Facebook) to third-party applications outside the dashboard. To celebrate the launch, HootSuite adds three new (and free) app plugins, including Evernote, Zendesk, and Storify — to help users take control of their content curation and customer service needs. Read the rest of this entry »
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