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Following in the footsteps of consumers, large international companies are now becoming active participants in social media. A recent Burson-Marsteller study found that 79 percent of the largest 100 companies in the Fortune Global 500 index are using at least one of the most popular social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs. Read more…

Via Mashable.

Wondering what all this social media excitement is about? Mashable proposes a 10-minute video mashup of the 5 best books about social media: Trust Agents, The Whuffie Factor, Six Pixels of Separation, Crush It, The New Community Rules. Enjoy!

Enterprise 2.0 – the application of Web 2.0 technologies in a corporate context – is still in its infancy in Switzerland. The step from leisure activity to productive tool is off to a sticky start.

Read more at Unic.com Magazin…

Via Emilie Ogez.

Via GlobeCorp.

Some fresh news for the friends and followers of b-spirit. I’m involved in an exciting new project since a few weeks. We’re helping Fair Web Entertainment, a start-up based in Lausanne, to launch its brand new web service, BETCoffee.

Basically, BETCoffee is a social bookmaking website - not bookmarking, bookmaking! It aims to bring online betting to the crowds providing a pleasant and safe environment to bet online. Unlike traditional gambling sites, it has been designed to be dead simple to let everyone have fun with friends, colleagues or family members: no complicated odds, betting rules are user generated and based on head-to-head challenges. Hence BETCoffee will be highly social as bets will play the role of social objects to let people interact with each other. In this context, b-spirit will play an important role as I will take over the community management.

A private beta will be launched by the end of this month. I encourage you to go to BETCoffee.com and to enter your email address if you’d like to be part of the beta.

Also, we’ll introduce BETCoffee on 15 October during a SwissW2 event. You can register at http://fr.amiando.com/Betcoffee.html. See you there!

This was one year ago…

A June survey released by Facetime, makers of a gateway appliance for managing Web 2.0 applications, revealed the growing popularity of social networking applications in the workplace. Out of 1199 survey respondents, all IT professionals, there were more who felt that social networks played an important role in the business world than those who didn’t. What’s more, it appears that the IT folks are now seemingly OK with providing access these networks behind the firewall - even those that don’t approve of their use!

Read more at ReadWriteWeb…

The top CEOs in the country appear to be mostly absent from the social media community. That’s the result from research we conducted over the past several weeks. We looked at Fortune’s 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs to determine how many were using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, or had a blog. The results show a miserable level of engagement.

Read more at ÜberCEO…