Service Integration and Management

                                                      Integration and Management   Service Integration and Management or SIAM is a functional framework. Stereotypically, if researched in depth it lays its wing on the framework laid by ITIL. It starves on the lifecycle model of ITIL and hence it is both a framework and a function. Contrary to ITIL, SIAM has additional focus in service delivery and holistic governance with governance across all partners. It is holistically accountable to ensure Service Management benchmark enabled with governance and security controls. Unlike its predecessors SIAM supports a robust and sturdy relationship between business and IT. It all elaborates on the importance laid upon planning alignment between service consumers, applications, cloud services and infrastructure partners. SIAM plans towards CSI and service management and focus to delivers an organization hierarchical and functional view. In short, as suggested by Wiki: "Service integratio

What is Social Media Marketing? Social Media Basics Explained


BASICS OFSOCIAL MEDIA
1.Social media, according to Wikipedia, "is the use of electronic and Internet tools for the purpose of sharing and discussing information and experiences with other human beings."Social media has many forms and different types of interactions. Users often confuse social media platforms and do not have a clear understanding of the function of each one. Social media sites can generally be broken down into three main groups, in order to understand them better.

2.Social News Sites: Social media news sites such as Digg, Propeller, Newsvine, and Mixx allow users to read about news topics and vote and/or comment on the articles. Articles with more votes get promoted to a more prominent position. These are excellent sites to find and read interesting information on a particular topic.

3.Social Networks: Social Networking has become very popular during the past few years, but it can still be very difficult to understand for someone new to social networking. Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and other similar sites allow users keep up to date with other contacts information, interests, posts, view new pictures, etc. These networks can be used to find old friends, make new friends, or network with people who have similar interests such as business.

4.Social bookmarking: According to Wikipedia, "social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them." Websites such as Jumptags, Delicious, EasyBM, StumbleUpon, and Diigo allow users to find and bookmark websites and share them with the community. Bookmarks are saved online and can be accessed anywhere in the world.

5.In addition to these three categories, a few other terms must be explained. The term "microblogging" is a popular social site which is used to describe a form of blogging where users provide brief updates and publish them on their social media platform. Often updates to other social profiles are published, as well as links, replies and mentions to other microbloggers. The most popular microblogging site is Twitter; however other sites such as Pownce, Tumbler, Jaiku are also increasing in popularity.

6.Social media emerged as a part of the web 2.0 technology, and may be confusing to many casual internet users. Understanding the key concepts behind social media is essential for businesses who want an online presence, and creates a sense of fun and entertainment for casual internet users.


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