We just modified our home page by replacing the combined feed of blog posts, bookmarks and tweets with a widget that is hopefully more user friendly. The combined feed is still available on top of the widget.
By clicking on the icons at the botton of the widget, you can navigate and jump from our Seesmic videos to our tweets to our latest blog posts to our bookmarks and so on.
Have fun!
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Breaking news! Nearly four years after I became a freelancer, my professional activities take a bend. In fact, I am no longer a freelancer but head of b-spirit Sàrl, a formal company. Don’t rush to read the Business Names Index, you’ll have to wait a few more days to see the update.
From the outside, it may look like an ordinary change whereas in fact, it is a very important step forward. Actually, it was my objective since day 1, I was just waiting for the right time.
New support
To help me on various customer projects and to develop the activities of b-spirit, I have the pleasure to announce that Mathieu Favez just joined the company. The members of the Swiss Web 2.0 community probably know Mathieu already, the creator of Romanding, a Swiss Digg-like. His knowledge of the web 2.0 is a great asset and will help b-spirit to reach more ambitious objectives.
New model
Beyond the legal changes, the business model is wider and richer: we not only cover corporate blogging, we are now active in other areas such as business watch, knowledge management, social media and online strategy in general. In all these areas, b-spirit provides consulting, products and services.
New partner
Six Apart is now among our partners and b-spirit becomes “Movable Type Solution Provider”. I am very happy about this new partnership with Six Apart, a major provider in the world of blogs and social networks. You should find here more information about Movable Type very soon. We currently look at a few other interesting partnerships.
New web site
To promote all the changes above, the web site has been completely upgraded and updated thanks to Mathieu. Please take a tour, you can even leave video comments! As from now, we’ll dedicate more time to the blog, including articles, videos, links, analysis, etc.
New feeds
Those who were subscribed to the old feed (and those who would like to subscribe) must update their news readers as follows:
You can also subscribe to a combination of our posts + links on del.icio.us + our Twitter timeline sur via the home page.
Next
There are more new things to come (the b-spirit calendar is full). Stay tuned!
After its 17 billion dollar acquisition of Reuters, Thomson selected WordPress for their website and decided to put their day 1 announcement site on WordPress.com VIP.
“The newly formed Thomson Reuters Corp made its highly anticipated debut this past Thursday. Thomson Reuters is now the largest business focused media company in the world with 50,000 employees and annual revenues of more than $12.5 billion.
To communicate to various groups about the new combined entity, Thomson Reuters selected WordPress.com VIP to host this high-traffic and high-profile site.”
Via Ma.tt.
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Radar Networks has launched its new service called Twine in beta invitation only. Twine is born a few months ago under the lead of Nova Spivack, the founder of the Radar Networks company and a semantic web evangelist.
But what is Twine? Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.
Powered by a semantic understanding engine, Twine automatically organizes information, learns about your interests and makes you recommendations. The more you use Twine, the better it gets to know you and the more useful it becomes.
The Semantic Web creates a web of data that allows computers to find, extract, share, re-use information, and potentially even reason with it. Semantic data itself contains “meta-information” so that other services are able to make sense of it. For example, the Semantic Web uses markup not only to indicate how something should be rendered, but also to express content (e.g. the authorship, title, and date of an article). The Semantic Web is the next step in the evolution of the Internet. But making this technology meaningful and accessible to everyday users is where Twine comes in. And while users certainly don’t need to understand the Semantic Web in order to appreciate Twine, several technologies are hard at work behind the scenes of its simple user interface.
Collaborators at b-spirit have some available invitations to give…those interested in getting an invitation to test Twine in beta can leave a comment on this post. Obviously invitations will be managed as first requested first served…
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Scientific American is running a major article on Science 2.0, or the use of Web 2.0 applications and techniques by scientists to collaborate and publish in new ways.
“Under [the] radically transparent ‘open notebook’ approach, everything goes online: experimental protocols, successful outcomes, failed attempts, even discussions of papers being prepared for publication… The time stamps on every entry not only establish priority but allow anyone to track the contributions of every person, even in a large collaboration.”
Via Slashdot.
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Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will surge over the next 5 years, growing 43% each year to reach $4.6 bln globally by 2013, according to Forrester Research. 56% of North American and European enterprises consider Web 2.0 to be a priority in 2008.
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Everybody heard about the partnership that Google and Salesforce.com announced about a week ago. Google’s set of online productivity applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc, are now fully integrated in Salesforce.com. Everything is free unless a company needs the premier edition including added security and management features for $5/user/month. By summer, Salesforce.com will be reselling the premier edition for $10/user/month including telephone support.
Not familiar with Google Apps or Salesforce? Don’t worry if you don’t yet understand how this all works. They asked Commoncraft to create and publish a new animation to make everything clear. Who’s better than Commoncraft to explain a web technology with a set of basic drawings, by using simple words and in less than three minutes? Beyond the Google-Salesforce deal, the animation turns out to be an excellent promotion of online collaboration tools and techniques in a corporate environment also known as “office 2.0″.
Watch the result below.
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“The hardest part of adapting your marketing thinking is that the predominant pattern in Web 2.0 is sharing control to create value. You see it in communities like Wikipedia or YouTube. You see it in business models like Open Source. You see it when the conversations around your brand happen without you. But there is no buy vs. build equation for deciding to share control. The decision to put intellectual property into the commons does not yet have tools to forecast return.
We think we have marketing down to a science. And we use the language of war — campaigns that divide targets for capture. Lead generation often comes with guarantees. The ROI of a campaign is supposedly known in advance.”
One thing that holds many small businesses back from business blogging is the fear that they will give away valuable proprietary knowledge and therefore harm their business.
The truth is, most of the time, sharing knowledge on a business blog does not harm business. In fact, the general information that you share on your blog is already probably already available online.
If your customers and potential customers don’t get the information from you, then where will they get it. Answer: probably from your competitor.
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One of the things that has been a little bothersome in the last year or two and has been the lack of understanding between the difference between two terms, collaborative and collective. The two terms are rather similar in definition (in some dictionaries they are nearly identical), but the differences between the two terms have a huge difference when it comes to value in social software. This difference and value is often overlooked or missed by those crafting these tools and services.
Web 2.0 is moving to the enterprise with increasing speed. There is particular interest in content generation tools like blogs and wikis. Big traditional vendors like IBM Lotus and Microsoft are reacting with offerings that leverage their existing strengths in the enterprise space, but while they react, a host of small vendors are actively providing value to the very customers that have been so loyal to the traditional vendors. Why such strong traction for the small upstarts?
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The answer is simple: They have strong offerings available today, and the time and cost to implement them is very attractive. And importantly, they also know what it takes to serve the enterprise market.
Information and knowledge managers are constantly bombarded by new technologies - like RIAs, wikis, blogs, and virtual worlds - or new market trends, such as the recent consolidation in business intelligence (BI). Plus there’s the ever-changing organizational dynamics - like a new CIO, an acquisition, or a new strategic direction for the enterprise - that drive constant change and raise your stress level. To prepare you for some specific issues before they become nagging problems, focus on these five top challenges in 2008: retention management, Enterprise Web 2.0, data governance, and data quality. And to prepare for the next longer-term big thing, keep your eye on business optimization - powered by BI, business process management (BPM), and business rules. By keeping these challenges within your sights and proactively taking steps to address them, you will not only look smart but also be prepared when these issues hit.
This is become more and more of an obvious trend to look out for: A twitter clone in the Enterprise. Some early tools are now sprouting up to enable cheap low-risk deployments of the necessary tools.
Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble employees have used Web logs and wikis, where users can share and create information collectively, and thousands have created profiles to connect professionally on Facebook and LinkedIn. In January, the Cincinnati-based company began a pilot program that gives employees a single Web-based entry to specialized company content, including news feeds and team rooms, browser-based applications that let groups collaborate on documents. The portal might one day lead to the nascent internal social networking platform Joe Schueller [in charge of deploying the new program] demoed, he says. P&G is also building a company “yellow pages” so workers can find one another by topic area. While Schueller has moments of doubt about the effectiveness of these technologies, he is unequivocal about their role at P&G. “I’m confident that some of these tools will have a permanent place here,” Schueller says. “We have 10,000 people in Facebook and 16,000 in LinkedIn. You can’t deny it.”
Via Bertrand Duperrin.
“I want to share something with you I’ve learned over the last decade of my life that I believe can be as helpful to you as it has been to me. In a nutshell, one of the most powerful and least understood aspects of business is how an emotional connection between management, employees and customers provides a competitive advantage. Unless the people who are part of a business feel a sense of connection — an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation and esprit de corps — they will never reach their potential as individuals, nor will the organization.”
Back in 2002, Ross Mayfield co-founded Socialtext, a company that sells enterprise wikis to companies looking to collaborate on key projects, improve products and customer service.
CIO’s C.G. Lynch chatted with Mayfield to see what the Socialtext wiki is all about, and what it might mean to companies with traditional IT systems.
Research published this week by the Gartner recommends that organisations should not block access to social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and others, but rather embrace these consumer tools to encourage creativity and collaboration on the job.
The research relies on a Gartner Executive Programs survey of 1,500 CIOs worldwide, in which half of the respondents said they plan to invest in Web 2.0 technologies for the first time in 2008.
One of the trends these days is getting into an online active dialogue with stakeholders. The corporate communication professional has several online tools at hand. The most important tool is the corporate website, but E-mail, RSS, podcasts and corporate blogs are frequently used as well. A relatively new addition to this toolbox is microblogging. What is it and should companies consider using microblogging services?
