Family Business - Keep Your Business Thriving

Family Business Coach Irving Katz, MBA, has launched his new book, Family Business Secrets, "How to Keep Your Business Thriving From Generation To Generation"

This must-read book is a self-assessment guide that will help any business owner build a family business, plan forward & grow the business for generations to come! Irving has shared some of the best secrets that he has learned during his 40 years in business & coaching in a concise 90-page guide, catering to the needs of busy family business leaders.

For instance, Irving shares with us the best ways to assure harmony when running a family business:

1. Develop your children's values & capabilities from a young age
2. Create a family mission statement
3. Instill both a competitive & service ethic and culture in the business
4. Build a team of owners comprised of family members
5. Retain key "non-family" employees in the business

The Family Business Guide starts with a real case study: A Family Business Obituary, accentuating the importance of planning, with key bullet points on why some family businesses succeed & why some fail.

The Family Business Guide has 8 chapters, that are quick to read & understand, with details on how to implement the key strategies through self assessments.
Chapter 1 is about achieving Business Stability, a barometer of whether your business can be passed down to the next generation.
Chapter 2 delves into the strategic planning needed to create a SET plan and a plan of action.
Chapter 3 details the key processes for Setting a Foundation, including Family Meetings best practices.
Chapter 4 provides useful tips on growing the family business through expanding the product line, going into new markets, and creativity & innovation.
Chapters 5 & 6 are about succession planning, choosing and developing the successor, and preparing the business for transition.
Chapter 7 goes into the details of living on a budget, and planning for retirement.
Chapter 8 puts it all together, and gives a synopsis of the SET strategy.

I invite you to pick up your copy of Family Business Secrets today! It is a must-read for today's family business owners.

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Five Benefits of Private Social Networks

There are many benefits when a business uses public social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace & emerging social media services! Here are just a few advantages: Promote & market business brand, find new prospects, create fan base, enter new markets, offer incentives & coupons, capture customer feedback and defend business brand!

What are Private Social Networks for Business? And what are some of the key benefits...

Private Social Networks - PSNs provide the core features & functionality of Public Social Networks... Making new connections, creating & sharing of profiles, sharing of information, ideas & feedback, collaboration, learning & networking, and promoting your brand. However there is one significant difference: PSNs are completely private; meaning, only the business & its population have access to the private business community!



Five Benefits of PSNs - Private Social Networks: This is the way to go!

1. Exclusivity - Exclusivity is key to Private Social Network. A Private Social Network is exclusive to only the invited users and business community. Customers, partners & members are aware that they belong to an exclusive private community, and will love to be part of it! No outsiders have access to the PSN.

2. Privacy & Security - On a PSN, the organization controls & manages access to all users of the network. There is complete privacy of the user information since the PSN is under business' management. PSNs are completely secured. Outside users cannot simply get into a PSN. Finally, all shared information by the members of a PSN remains private within the community.

3. Business Branding - A business is able to manage & maintain its brand on a PSN with ease. PSNs offer many customization options - logos, banners, network names, modules, messaging, workflow & more. A business is able to fine-tune & customize a PSN such that it becomes an extension of its brand or website.

4. Deeper Relationships - PSNs allow businesses to build longer-lasting, deeper, profitable relationships with the constituents. Importantly, the private community is engaged and is always connected with "what's going on". Users now connect & learn more about their business colleagues. Members share useful information & valuable feedback openly, and frequently. This creates greater goodwill and builds considerable member & customer loyalty. PSNs help businesses retain, manage, engage & grow the customer base (and reduce customer churn). PSNs help grow partner channels, and make them even more productive.

5. Collaborative Culture - PSNs help build a thriving company culture that transforms the organization into an interactive, engaging community that begins to share ideas, make new connections, collaborate, and leverage expertise rapidly and frequently. As more users use PSNs, more ideas get generated & shared, more collaboration & group coordination begins to happen, more projects get managed on time, and more issues get tracked & resolved. In short, a collaborative organizational culture emerges when a company uses PSN.

Best of all, your competition has no idea or no access to your private social network. Hence, your competition cannot have any advantage from your PSN.

Finally, PSN - Private Social Networks can be selectively public, and can help your business build & promote your brand on the major public social networks.

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Private Social Networks for Business

There are many benefits when a business uses public social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace & emerging social media services! Here are just a few benefits: Promote & market your brand, find new prospects, create fan base, enter new markets, offer incentives & coupons, capture customer feedback and defend your brand!

However, public social networks can also be dangerous for your business:

Here are the Five Pitfalls of public social networks for your business: Be in the know!

1. Information Security - All business information that is put on these public social networks is public (Everything! Don't get mislead that your business information is safe. Anything you share on these public networks becomes public knowledge!)

2. Network Access - Employees of the company setup & share public profiles on these public networks (your business loses control, as employees access these public networks and share sensitive information, knowingly or unknowingly; as more employees get on these social networks, greater is the risk of your business information going in wrong hands!)

3. Industry Compliance - Public social networks offer minimum to no industry compliance, security & regulatory support (Sharing of any information about your customers, partners or members, knowingly or unknowingly, on these public networks can be detrimental to your business.)

4. Competition - Your competition will love you for using these public social networks (the more information you share on these public social networks, the better your competition learns about you, your customers & your business; and your competition will use this knowledge to win against you!)

5. Customers - Your customers, members and partners may hesitate to do business with you over public social networks (Concerns over sharing of their profiles, sharing of critical business information, security, and saying something in a public forum that will be taken out of context prevents external users to do business on public social networks).

What are Private Social Networks for Business? And what are some of the key benefits...

Private Social Networks - PSNs provide the core features & functionality of Public Social Networks... Making new connections, creating & sharing of profiles, sharing of information, ideas & feedback, collaboration, learning & networking, and promoting your brand. However there is one significant difference: PSNs are completely private; meaning, only the business & its population have access to the private business community!



Five Benefits of PSNs - Private Social Networks: This is the way to go!

1. Exclusivity - Exclusivity is key to Private Social Network. A Private Social Network is exclusive to only the invited users and business community. Customers, partners & members are aware that they belong to an exclusive private community, and will love to be part of it! No outsiders have access to the PSN.

2. Privacy & Security - On a PSN, the organization controls & manages access to all users of the network. There is complete privacy of the user information since the PSN is under business' management. PSNs are completely secured. Outside users cannot simply get into a PSN. Finally, all shared information by the members of a PSN remains private within the community.

3. Business Branding - A business is able to manage & maintain its brand on a PSN with ease. PSNs offer many customization options - logos, banners, network names, modules, messaging, workflow & more. A business is able to fine-tune & customize a PSN such that it becomes an extension of its brand or website.

4. Deeper Relationships - PSNs allow businesses to build longer-lasting, deeper, profitable relationships with the constituents. Importantly, the private community is engaged and is always connected with "what's going on". Users now connect & learn more about their business colleagues. Members share useful information & valuable feedback openly, and frequently. This creates greater goodwill and builds considerable member & customer loyalty. PSNs help businesses retain, manage, engage & grow the customer base (and reduce customer churn). PSNs help grow partner channels, and make them even more productive.

5. Collaborative Culture - PSNs help build a thriving company culture that transforms the organization into an interactive, engaging community that begins to share ideas, make new connections, collaborate, and leverage expertise rapidly and frequently. As more users use PSNs, more ideas get generated & shared, more collaboration & group coordination begins to happen, more projects get managed on time, and more issues get tracked & resolved. In short, a collaborative organizational culture emerges when a company uses PSN.

Best of all, your competition has no idea or no access to your private social network. Hence, your competition cannot benefit from your PSN.

Finally, PSN - Private Social Networks can be selectively public, and can help your business build & promote your brand on the major public social networks.

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The Best 50 Inventions of 2010

Time Magazine announced the 50 best inventions of 2010... And it's one helluva list!

Here's the top 50 inventions & innovations of 2010...

Technology

• iPad
• No surprises here, the Apple iPad is a top Technology pick..."Apple is the first company that designed finger-friendly hardware and software from scratch rather than stuffing a PC into a keyboardless case."
  
• Flipboard
  "The killer iPad app Flipboard ends the chaos by grabbing updates, photos and links from your friends and other interesting people, then reformatting everything in a wonderfully browsable, magazine-like format."
  
• Looxcie
  "Invented by a parent who found himself fumbling with video cameras while trying to record children's parties, Looxcie can capture everything the user sees for up to five hours, hands-free."
  
• Kickstarter
  "Kickstarter as crowdsourced philanthropy — a website where anyone can donate any amount to a project in development, with no money changing hands until a minimum threshold has been met"
  
• Square
  "With the aid of a tiny magnetic card reader that attaches to a smart phone, Square lets anyone process credit cards."
• Sony Alpha A55 Camera
  "Sony's Alpha A55 has an ingenious translucent mirror that stays put. That means you can shoot up to 10 perfectly focused photos a second and record HD video that never goes blurry."
  

Transportation

• Amtrak's Beef-Powered Train
• Google's Driverless Car

"Is it an autoautomobile? An aut2.0mobile? Whatever you call it, Google's new Prius — tricked out with radar sensors, video cameras and a laser range finder — has driven itself 140,000 miles without an unscheduled meeting with a light pole. "

• Martin Jetpack
  "The Martin Jetpack positions itself as the planet's first practical jet pack — as if it were some kind of airborne Swiffer. The Martin Jetpack could take its operator up 8,000 ft. Since it holds only 30 minutes' worth of fuel"
  
• Edison2
  "The car — as aerodynamic as it is anorexic — weighs less than 800 lb., which helps it get 102.5 m.p.g. "
  
• Antro Electric Car
  "The Antro Solo can hold up to three people — a driver and two passengers, one on either side — who pedal to help drive the ultralight car. The rest of the forward motion comes from an electric motor that's partly powered by solar panels."
  
• Electric-Car Charging Stations

"Coulomb Technologies is building a system of automated charging stations in public places that are connected to utilities, so the charge for your charge can be added to your home electricity bill."

• The Straddling Bus
  

"Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment is developing a massive "straddling bus." Cheaper than a subway, the partly solar-powered behemoth will span two lanes and carry up to 1,200 people in a carriage raised 7 ft. above the roadway, thus allowing cars to pass, or be passed, underneath. "

• Road-Embedded Rechargers

"Engineers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology are experimenting with embedding electric strips in roadbeds that magnetically transfer energy to battery-powered vehicles above."

• Terrafugia Transition

"The Terrafugia Transition could redefine the convertible. And door-to-door travel. Designed by a team of MIT aeronautics engineers, including Terrafugia co-founders Carl Dietrich and his wife Anna Mracek Dietrich, the Transition is a street-legal, airworthy, airbag-and-parachute-equipped flying car

• The Plastic-Bottle Boat
  "Plastiki, a 60-ft. catamaran built with 12,500 recycled plastic bottles and a fully recyclable plastic material called Seretex and held together with organic glue made from cashew-nut husks and sugarcane."
  

Health & Medicine

• The Malaria-Proof Mosquito and The Mosquito Laser

"The laser targets the mosquitoes' size and signature wing beat and sends the bugs down in a burst of flame, making their deaths good for public health and, well, kind of cool."

• NeoNurture Incubator
  "NeoNurture incubator employs an underutilized resource (old car parts) to address a critical need: functioning incubators to nurture premature newborns."
  
• eLegs Exoskeleton

"The robotic prosthetic legs use artificial intelligence to "read" the wearer's arm gestures via a set of crutches, simulating a natural human gait. "

• EyeWriter

"Allow people suffering from any kind of neuromuscular syndrome to write and draw by tracking their eye movement and translating it to lines on a screen."

Bioengineering

• First Synthetic Cell

"managed to reconstruct the genome of a bacterium that successfully "booted up," dividing and replicating just like any other bug."

• Lab-Grown Lungs

"researchers have re-created the delicate architecture of a rat lung accurately enough for it to assume 95% of a normal lung's inhaling and exhaling functions. "

• 3-D Bioprinter

"San Diego–based companies Invetech and Organovo have developed what amounts to a dot-matrix printer for human organs."

• Faster-Growing Salmon
  "Splice in a gene from Chinook salmon with DNA from an eellike creature called an ocean pout. AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon can grow twice as fast, making them easier to farm."
  

Green Energy

• Deep Green Underwater Kite

"Minesto calls the technology Deep Green and says it can generate 500 kilowatts of power even in calm waters; the design could increase the market for tidal power by 80%, the company says."

• Body Powered Devices

"Michael McAlpine of Princeton University and colleagues figured out how to turn locomotion into power by embedding piezoelectric crystals into a flexible, biocompatible rubberlike material that, when bent, allows the crystals to produce energy"

• Power-Aware Cord
  "What if you could actually see the electricity flowing into your machines? The Power-Aware Cord embeds wires around a cable that pulse light in relation to how much electricity is being drawn off the grid."
  
• Bloom Box

"Its Bloom Box — about half the size of a shipping container — generates electricity using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source. "

• The (Almost) Waterless Washing Machine

"U.S. uses more than 330 billion gal. of water on laundry each year, according to the British firm Xeros Ltd. The company is developing a machine that draws cleaning power from reusable, stain-absorbing nylon beads, requiring much less water — as much as 90% less — than a normal washing machine."

Clothing

• BioCouture

"The resulting fabric, which has a vaguely skinlike texture, can be molded and sewn into shirts and coats. Suzanne Lee, a researcher at London's well-regarded Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, has developed a material made by the bacteria that are usually used to turn green tea into the fermented beverage kombucha"

• Spray-On Fabric
  
  "The British company Fabrican has developed a way to bond and liquefy fibers so that textiles can be sprayed out of a can or spray gun straight onto a body or dress form."
  
• The Plastic-Fur Coat
  "Embroidering the plastic fasteners in a herringbone pattern on a leather coat, turning the disposable into a fashion statement: fake fake fur."
  

• Woolfiller
  "Take the special wool and felting needle and poke the needle — which has small hooks along the point — through the wool and your moth-eaten garment.
  

Robots/Software

• The Deceitful Robot

"Georgia Tech's new robot, which uses algorithms to detect conflict and then assess the best method of escaping from it, can create a false trail, send erroneous communications and hide from an enemy. "

• The English-Teaching Robot

"Call it the job terminator. South Korea, which employs some 30,000 foreigners to teach English, has plans for a new addition to its language classrooms: the English-speaking robot."

• Lifeguard Robot

"EMILY, or the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, is a robotic buoy that can swim through riptides at a speed of up to 24 m.p.h. "

• Sarcasm Detection
  "If a computer using the Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Sarcasm Identification read that last sentence, it would immediately detect the sarcasm."
  

Military

• Super Super Soaker
  
  "Troops in Afghanistan are using a new "water disrupter" to disable roadside bombs. The clear plastic device is filled with water and a small explosive charge that, when set off, generates a thin blade of water that pulverizes the target. "
  
• Less Dangerous Explosives
  "New IMX-101 explosive — while packing the same punch as TNT — is "more thermally stable," says Philip Samuels, a chemical engineer at Picatinny Arsenal's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center."
  
• The X-51A WaveRider
  "The X-51A WaveRider demonstration project, part of the U.S.'s Prompt Global Strike initiative to attack any spot on the globe within an hour, is a prime example. The WaveRider is hypersonic, traveling 600 miles in 10 minutes."
• X-Flex Blast Protection
  "X-Flex wallpaper won't make your walls aesthetically pleasing, just safe from collapsing from lethal force. This startlingly resilient covering is designed to reinforce buildings against man-made blasts, flying shrapnel and destabilizing natural disasters."
  
• Iron Man Suit
  "An honest-to-goodness Iron Man suit, the XOS 2 allows even its least muscular wearer to lift 200-lb. weights without breaking a sweat and, as seen in demonstration videos that have gone viral, punch through slabs of wood that a person would be at pains to even saw through ordinarily."
  

Miscellaneous

• The Seed Cathedral
  "British pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is constructed of 60,000 light-funneling fiber-optic rods, each with one or more seeds implanted at its tip. "
• STS-111 Instant Infrastructure
  
  "Lighter-than-air, unmanned flying vehicle made of ripstop nylon that, if test flights are anything to go by, will be able to soar as high as 9,000 ft. for as long as three days"
  
• Better 3-D Glasses
  "3-D glasses reduce the brightness of the image as much as 50%, and if you're nearsighted, you have to put them on over your regular glasses, doubling the nerd quotient."
  
• Responsible Homeowner Reward Program
  "Banks promise to pay borrowers who continue to pay on time a lump sum — typically 10% of their original loan amount — when they sell or refinance their home."
  
• Sugru
  "Looks like Play-Doh, acts like Super Glue. Sugru, a brightly colored silicone rubber, is the brainchild of designer Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, who worked with scientists for five years to develop a material soft enough to mold yet durable enough to fix or "hack" things so they work better."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2029497,00.html#ixzz15815y300

Apple's Innovation Strategy

How does Apple, the #1 innovative company in the world, innovate and create game-changing innovations such as the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad and more? What is Apple's secret recipe for innovation success?


Download Apple's Innovation Strategy, and learn how Apple became the #1 innovator through:

• Creativity and Innovation
• Innovation in Products
• Innovation in Business Model
• Innovation in Customer Experience
• Innovation and Leadership
• Steve Jobs Visionary Leadership

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Leading Business Innovation eBook - Definitive Guide

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - The Top 50 Innovative Companies In The World
Chapter 2 - The Innovation Index - Top 20 Innovators
Chapter 3 - Measuring Business Innovation Success - Key Benchmarks
Chapter 4 - Failures And Stumbles Driving Innovation - Five Takeaways
Chapter 5 - Blocking Creativity And Innovation - Nine Processes
Chapter 6 - Six Ways To Find Innovation - "See with new eyes"
Chapter 7 - Five Principles For Successful Business Innovation
Chapter 8 - Is Innovation Cyclical? - Four Common Blunders
Chapter 9 - Can Leadership Create Innovation? - Ten Leadership Ideas
Chapter 10 - Top Ten Creative Leadership Traits - Be The Leader and Innovator
Chapter 11 - Creating Team Innovation - Seven Characteristics
Chapter 12 - Creating Team Innovation - Effective Teams Examples
Chapter 13 - Creating Team Innovation - Ten Principles To Unleash Innovation
Chapter 14 - The Future Of Management, Creativity And Innovation - Upend Business Models
Chapter 15 - How Much Creativity Is Enough?
Chapter 16 - Co-Creation Driving Innovation At Top Innovators
Chapter 17 - Marketing Innovation Creating Market Leadership
Chapter 18 - Consumer Innovation Best Practices - Six Steps To Lead Innovation
Chapter 19 - The Innovation Gap - Disruptive Innovation versus Sustaining Innovation
Chapter 20 - Are Children More Creative Than Adults?
Chapter 21 - Questions Lead To Creativity, Answers Lead To Innovation
Chapter 22 - Expanding Your Business Innovation Capacity
Chapter 23 - Innovation Insights And Wisdom From Greatest Innovators
Chapter 24 - Turn Complaints Into Solutions, Innovations And Success
Chapter 25 - Why Some Ideas Survive And Others Die
Chapter 26 - Ten Answers For Driving Innovation And Growth At World Class Innovators
Chapter 27 - Strategic Innovation At Deloitte - The "Apple" Of Services Innovation
Chapter 28 - Toyota's Innovation Factory
Chapter 29 - Ipod - Apple's Best Innovation
Chapter 30 - Apple Iphone Rising - Top Ten Innovations
Chapter 31 - Google Versus Yahoo - A Tale Of Two Cities
Chapter 32 - Youtube - $1.65 Billion Innovation And Counting
Chapter 33 - Blockbuster Versus Netflix - Winner Takes All?
Chapter 34 - GE And P&G - Innovations Driving Growth & Six Growth Principles
Chapter 35 - Can Dell Turnaround Dell? Seven Thoughts For Turnaround
Chapter 36 - Innovations Brewing At Starbucks ? Five Takeaways
Chapter 37 - Southwest Airlines Flying High With Ten Innovations
Chapter 38 - Innovations At Microsoft - Four Business Pillars
Chapter 39 - Direct Marketing And Direct Mail Innovation At USPS
Chapter 40 - Disruptor Zune Versus Innovator Ipod
Chapter 41 - 100% Electric Ultra Fast Innovation - Tesla
Chapter 42 - Nike Versus Adidas - The Innovation Game Is On
Chapter 43 - People Innovation - We Think Culture Of Innovation
Chapter 44 - Intel - Exponential Innovations
Chapter 45 - Five Innovations In Software Industry - Intuit Case Study
Chapter 46 - Google Versus Microsoft - The Enterprise Battle Heats Up!
Chapter 47 - Launch Of Tata Nano - A Watershed Moment in Indian Autos
Chapter 48 - How Can GM Turnaround The Business? Is Innovation The Answer
Chapter 49 - Doubleclick A Smart Buy For Google
Chapter 50 - Microsoft Walk-Off Home Run With Aquantive
Chapter 51 - IBM's $5 Billion Cognos Acquisition
Chapter 52 - Top Acquisitions By The Top Innovators
Chapter 53 - Will Yahoo merge with Microsoft?
Chapter 54 - Innovation And Stock Performance Correlation
Chapter 55 - The Innovation Index Annual Report
Chapter 56 - $1 Billion Or The Future

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Sanjay Dalal is an innovator and entrepreneur with over fifteen years of leadership experience in Silicon Valley and High Tech companies. Dalal authored and launched the Innovation Faculty eBook and Definitive Guide on Creativity and Innovation in business in 2008, used by over 650 leading organizations and professionals all over the world including HP, Hallmark, Cleveland Clinic, Pepsi, EDS, and major universities. Dalal published over 200 articles in the last two years on the real-time state of innovation in business at this blog on Creativity and Innovation Driving Business, and introduced the Innovation Index in December 2006 that correlates business, innovation and stock performance. Dalal launched Apple's Innovation Strategy eBook in February, 2010. Dalal was the president and managing director of the innovative investment company, Innovation Index Group, that systematically invested into the Top 20 Innovators of the Innovation Index. Dalal filed joint U.S. Patent on "Hands-On Labs" for delivering live, hands-on training over Web Meetings by simulating a training lab environment. Dalal has launched innovative products such as WebEx Training Center and WebEx Sales Center to market, and grown product line revenue to tens of million dollars in annual revenue. Dalal holds executive certification on Leading Management Teams from Cornell University, and is an engineering scholar graduate in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Dalal attended Arizona State University for graduate education in Computer Science. Dalal secured the first position in the 50th William Lowell Putnam Math Competition. Dalal volunteered as a basketball coach on three separate occassions for Fremont NJB, Irvine NJB, and Rancho Middle School 7th graders, as an art master for 2nd graders, and as the secretary of the School Site Council. Dalal was a member of the Technology Advisory Committee for the Fremont School District containing over 40,000 students, an appointed position by the Board of Education. Dalal was a Web 2.0 adviser for Cal State Fullerton, Extended Education and a lecturer on "Making the business case for Web 2.0". Dalal, an appointed member of the Dean's Leadership Circle of The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, is a guest lecturer at the University of California, Irvine for the Strategic Innovation class. Dalal is an active Rotarian at the Rotary Club of Newport-Irvine.

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Selected references:
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world

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The Pitfalls of Public Social Networks

Why Your Business May Not Use public social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn to do business?

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We all love public social networks because they allow us to connect, engage, share ideas, network, find prospects, market, and promote our brand! However, did you know about the:

Top Five Dangers of Public Social Networks:

1. All business information on these public networks is public! Don't get fooled from these public social networks when they tell you that your information is secure. There is “no privacy!”. Don't take our word. Read what's going on here:

Two House members asked Facebook Inc. for more details about the way applications on the social network handle user information, following revelations of new privacy concerns.

U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D., Mass.) and Joe Barton (R., Texas) sent Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg a letter expressing concerns that "third-party applications gathered and transmitted personally identifiable information about Facebook users and those users' friends." The two representatives are co-chairmen of the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus. Learn more

2. Each employee of your company must create a separate public profile on these public social networks. When more employees of your company use these public networks and create new public profiles, the more your business is at risk! The risk of your business sensitive internal information getting shared knowingly or unknowingly through these public profiles by any of your employees increases exponentially!

3. These public social networks offer minimum to no compliance & regulatory support. Many industries such as Finance, Healthcare, Government & Defense require compliance & security, and have strict regulations on sharing of sensitive internal information. Many of these public networks do not offer any measures wherein they will protect your business sensitive information. Rather, they encourage you to share as much information as possible. Think twice before putting any business information on these public social networks.

4. Your competition will love you for using these public social networks. Since your competition can see everything that you do, how you do your business online on these public social networks, who shares information from your company, who are your followers, customers & users and much more. The more public social networks your business uses, the more information you share about your business online, the more your competition learns about you, and ultimately utilizes this knowledge to win against you!

5. Your customers and partners may hesitate to do business with you over public social networks. Whereas, they may initially work with you on these public social networks thinking it's cool, but eventually, they will become reluctant in sharing information & feedback with you owing to privacy concerns as well. Imagine if your customer shares something sensitive over a public social network. What if your customer bad mouths you? What could happen? Again, your competition will have a field day with this.

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Sincere regards,

Sanjay Dalal

CEO & Founder

oGoing Inc.

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