Monitoring Your Competitors GitHub Orgs, Repos, and Employee Repos for Signals
#ICYDK: GitHub is one of the most valuable social networking platforms for business, beginning to rival Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others for a place to understand what is going on across leading business sectors. However, GitHub doesn’t have all the usual signals coming in text, images, and video format, making the social ecosystem something that often gets overlooked by business folks who don’t quite understand the open source landscape. This makes GitHub less noticeable than some of the more proven, lower hanging fruit that exists on other platforms.
Companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies of all shapes and sizes are using GitHub to manage the open source software they depend on and increasingly also managing content, data, APIs, and other critical infrastructure within the GitHub ecosystem. Since GitHub is free for public repositories, it is common for GitHub to provide us with a unique window into what is going on across some of the more public entities on the web today. https://goo.gl/3eobHY