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Winning by Sharing Data

Henrik Gabs Liliendahl1 Comment

When I changed my laptop a few months ago, it was the easiest migration to a new computer ever.

Basically I just had to connect to all the services in the cloud I had been using before and for many services the path was to get connected to Google+, Twitter and FaceBook and then connect to many other services via these connections.

ShareThis was a personal win.

Most of the teams I am working with are sharing their data with me in the cloud. As in the bad old days I do not have to call and ask for progress on this and that. I can check the status myself and even get notifications on my phablet when a colleague completes a task.

ShareThis is a shared win.

Within my profession being data quality improvement and Master Data Management (MDM) sharing data is going to be a winning path too as told in the post Sharing is the Future of MDM.

There are several ways of sharing master data like using commercial third party data, digging into open government data, having your own data locker and relying on social collaboration. These options are examined in the post Ways of Sharing Master Data.

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More Social Master Data Management

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Yesterday my American cyberspace friend Jim Harris was so kind to send an invitation for Google+ – the new social network service you must hook into. Thanks Jim, now I had to fill in yet a profile, upload the same picture as always and start networking from scratch once again 🙂

As many people I have several profiles in different social network services as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. As I’m doing business also with German speaking countries I also use XING as alternative to LinkedIn as told in the post LinkedIn and the other Thing.

In a comment to that post my Austria based French connection Olivier Mathurin noted: “Disconnected duplicated siloed professional profiles, mmm…”

In a post on this blog called Social Master Data Management made one year ago it is discussed how social CRM will add new sources from social networks to the external reference data sources we already know from old time CRM.

With all the different faces everyone are wearing in the social media realm this isn’t going to be easy and one may consider if social master data management is a wrong path giving the individual nature and built-in privacy in social networking services.    

Well, Gartner (the analyst firm) says that increasing links between MDM and social networks is one of the Three Trends That Will Shape the Master Data Management Market.

So, acknowledging that Gartner predictions are self-fulfilling, you better get moving into LinkedIn, Xing, Viadeo, Twitter, Facebook, (forget MySpace), Google+  and what’s next.

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