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Staff writer C.G. Lynch covers consumer technologies and collaboration for CIO. He started in CIO's editorial department while attending Northeastern University in Boston, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. Lynch tracks how technologies developed in the consumer space and on the Web become palatable for business use. He also examines how innovations on the Web affect the business models of technology vendors and the companies who buy their products. He lives in San Francisco.

Facebook Apps All Grown Up: Four to Watch

Down in Palo Alto this week, CIO.com's C.G. Lynch examined a slew of start-ups that have built cool features into apps and services that allow people and businesses to utilize Facebook for more than just games. Here are his favorites.

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Facebook Privacy: More Control for Users, Less Freedom for App Developers

Facebook recently announced that it will make more changes to its privacy settings and set tighter control over what pieces of data third-party applications can access.

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Twitter Tips: Seesmic Desktop An Alternative to TweetDeck

Having trouble making sense of all those tweets? Seesmic Desktop lets you segment users, manage multiple accounts and search for tweets on Twitter. But its real value may be in how it integrates with other social networks, mainly Facebook.

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Report Finds Reliability in URL Shorteners

The popularity of Twitter and other social networking services has made URL shortening services an important component of the Web.

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Facebook's New Search Engine: What You Need To Know

Facebook just made changes to its search tool that take clear aim at making the social network an alternative to Twitter for real-time conversations. But the best news is more the ability to search for content in your Facebook network of immediate friends.

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Twitter Tips: How to Write a Twitter Policy for Your Employees

Twitter makes it easier than ever to share information and interact with your customers and peers. But giving your employees some rules for the road will make it easier for them to tweet freely and without career fear, while protecting your company .

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Twitter's New Home Page: A Better Start for Beginners

Twitter launched a new welcome page yesterday that places a greater emphasis on search, to help new users get acclimated. The site also discarded the "what are you doing?" moniker that sold Twitter's mission short.

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Twitter Tips: Five Best Apps to Manage a Company Account

If your company has its own Twitter account, your team can manage it better using third-party apps. Here we highlight five of the best Twitter apps for handling multiple users, search, scheduling and tracking tweets and more.

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Twitter Tips: How to Find Job Posts on Twitter

Many recruiters and some employers have begun posting job openings on Twitter. But knowing how to get what you want from Twitter's search tool, and sorting through hashtags (#) assigned to job posts, can be tricky. CIO.com spoke with career experts to get their take on how to find the jobs you want.

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Socialtext's New Tool: Think of It as Private Twitter for Enterprises

New standalone Socialtext Signals product lets enterprise employees communicate in a real-time stream about projects, documents and other items. Think of it as Twitter for just your team.

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Windows 7 Webcast Series

There's a lot of buzz about Windows 7 out there. Each month in our webcast series, listen to analysts and customers discuss how Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Desktop is impacting large companies around the world. Learn how they evaluated Windows 7, including the cost of deployment, deployment strategies, and tangible benefits.

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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels

Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.

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Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators

In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.

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Conquering Decision Making

Don Maruska, author of How Great Decisions Get Made, gives advice on making great decisions and overcoming decision-making obstacles.  Read More »

 

A Conversation with Craig Donohue, CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Craig Donohue discusses his top business priorities, the role technology plays in supporting those priorities, his relationship with his CIO, and his worst IT-related nightmare. (13:11)  Read More »

 

Making the Best 'Right' Decision

Sometimes there can be more than one right answer to a problem. But the option you choose can say a lot about the values of your company—and your leadership. Making these "right versus right" choices can be one of the hardest tasks any manager can perform. But Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad professor of business ethics at Harvard Business School, says there are some simple methods you can apply to help you answer these tough questions. (10:47)  Read More »

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Email and Web Threats Require a Layered Defense

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Prescriptive Actions to Reduce Risk

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Webcast- Vantage 11: Redefining Application Performance Management

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