RE: Social Business Strategy in the Mainstream

Hi Oliver,

I have a different take than you on this.  Social Business is in my mind to convergence of social web and business, with the technical aspects being a part.  I for one am happy to see the announcements broad mix of social and technical components in both the Key Responsibilities and the Desired Skills & Expertise.  As for the MBA, not sure I see that as a bad thing, nor do I agree with your assessment.  As the holder of a BS and an MBA, with most of my practical experience being in a broad mix of non-software business/logistics/financial functions as well as software and systems development, I would expect that all aspects of my background are equally important to be able to understand the concept of social business, articulate this to both business and technical people, and be able to help move both aspects forward in relevant standards organizations.

My 2 cents.

Mark

From: olivermarks@gmail.com [mailto:olivermarks@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Oliver Marks
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:57 AM
To: Davidhablewitz@yahoo.com
Cc: Crawford, Mark; public-socbizcg@w3.org
Subject: Re: Social Business Strategy in the Mainstream

As an FYI I'm now running 'Social business' for HP Enterprise Services - my boutique consulting firm was getting out gunned by the big consulting companies, particularly Deloitte & PWC.

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:20 PM, <Davidhablewitz@yahoo.com<mailto:Davidhablewitz@yahoo.com>> wrote:
All the way up until it refers to Omniture, google analytics, facebook, twitter, youtube, Sysomos, and Radian6.  These are all references to social media tools and have little to do with social business.  The responsibilities are rather ambiguous, but do mention marketing several times.  An MBA degree has nothing to do with computer technology or the technology side of social business.  I think this is someone misusing the term Social Business when they meant to say Social Media.  I expect we will see this misuse often as people fail to see the difference.  Similar to how "on-premise" is improperly used instead of "on-premises" when comparing to services "in the cloud".  I think this misuse of terminology could be the undoing of SB, simply because people will assume the wrong meaning and not seek to understand the distinction.

Cheers,
David Hablewitz, PMP
Principal, Divergent Solutions LLC
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From:        "Crawford, Mark" <mark.crawford@sap.com<mailto:mark.crawford@sap.com>>
To:        "public-socbizcg@w3.org<mailto:public-socbizcg@w3.org>" <public-socbizcg@w3.org<mailto:public-socbizcg@w3.org>>
Date:        05/14/2013 12:53 PM
Subject:        Social Business Strategy in the Mainstream
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Well, looks like we are now seeing job descriptions from large companies around our topic :)

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=5454759&goback=%2Enmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&trk=nmp_rj_job

Kind Regards,
Mark
Mark Crawford
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