WayneNH

@waynenh
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Industry Analyst covering collaboration, communities, virtual events and social at IDC. Recovering marketer, journalist, adjunct, and meteorologist. Frequent photographer. Sharing ≠ endorsement.
Collaboration optimization, including AI, agents and app integration to collaborative workspaces are upscaling social business. Full report: https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US52086525
Work is becoming more multimodal, more visual and is becoming an AI-enhanced multiplayer quest. Learn more from the new IDC Annual Collaboration Study: https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US52086525
Uncertainty is accelerating the virtual event market, and the attendee expectation for a first-class experience. Spoiler: Both communities and experience planning is necessary.
New IDC Study: 72% of businesses see more companies want to collaborate with them; half cannot due to tech reasons. https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51376624 (subscription).
IDC's Annual Collaboration Survey, 2024: Measuring the Collaborative Evolution — North America and Western Europe

IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets.

IDC: The premier global market intelligence company
I write about #collaboration and #multimodality. That includes multisensory experiences - and now includes multisensory branding. https://www.axios.com/2024/06/14/multisensory-marketing-mastercard-branding-priceless
"Multisensory branding" lets you sniff, taste, hear, see and touch a company

It's about engaging customers' five senses through branding.

Axios

#Newsmast #Mastodon #SocialMedia
"Later this week, Newsmast will also open up its API to developers, which means your preferred Mastodon app could integrate with Newsmast’s Communities ..."

TechCrunch:
Newsmast brings curated ‘communities’ to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon

"An organization called Newsmast is introducing a new approach to decentralized social media with the launch of an updated version of its Mastodon mobile."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/27/newsmast-brings-curated-communities-to-the-open-source-twitter-x-alternative-mastodon/

Newsmast brings curated 'communities' to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon | TechCrunch

An organization called Newsmast is introducing a new approach to decentralized social media with the launch of an updated version of its Mastodon mobile

TechCrunch
To my friends, wishing you a year of joy, growth and prosperity this Lunar New Year!
We are about to see significant changes that will alter how we work together more effectively - beyond what AI brings. The rise of multimodal content and visual #collaboration are key elements. I published a new framework on these disruptive changes at IDC : https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51376424
Concurrent Disruptive Trends Plus AI for Collaboration, Communities, and Virtual Events

IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets.

IDC: The premier global market intelligence company
To the Community Managers:
🦄 Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day #CMAD2024 🦄
You preparing your brand for AI and the emerging conversational enterprise. #CX #EX

Google is starting to limit tracking cookies; marketers are not ready. This increases the need for first party, authenticated engagement sources like #communities and #virtualevents.

WSJ: " Google will start a limited test that will restrict cookies for 1% of the people who use its Chrome browser, which is by far the world’s most popular. By year’s end, Google plans to eliminate cookies for all Chrome users."

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-is-finally-killing-cookies-advertisers-still-arent-ready-7582fcac?st=b8ezhli6rj8pp6l&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Google Is Finally Killing Cookies. Advertisers Still Aren’t Ready.

Search giant plans to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry

WSJ