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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!

L’événement est proposé par E-Business Info qui organise aussi chaque année la convention E-Commerce de Paris.

De nombreux exposants seront présents et différentes conférences gratuites seront organisées…b-spirit n’exposera pas, mais profitera de l’occasion pour rencontrer les sociétés présentes et assistera à un certain nombre de conférences.

N’hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous désirez nous rencontrer durant cette journée.

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:

• Posts in French: http://feeds.feedburner.com/b-spirit_fr
• Posts in English: http://feeds.feedburner.com/b-spirit_en
• Posts in French + in English: http://feeds.feedburner.com/b-spirit

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!

C’est un changement qui n’a l’air de rien, comme ça, vu de l’extérieur, mais c’est une évolution très importante; en fait, c’est mon objectif depuis le début, j’attendais juste le moment idéal.

Nouveau renfort

Pour me prêter main forte sur différents projets clients et développer l’activité de b-spirit, j’ai le plaisir d’annoncer que Mathieu Favez m’a rejoint tout récemment. Les habitués de la “communauté 2.0″ suisse romande connaissent sans doute déjà Mathieu, créateur notamment de Romanding, le “Digg-like” suisse romand. Fin connaisseur du web 2.0, Mathieu représente une aide précieuse qui permettra à b-spirit d’atteindre des objectifs plus ambitieux.

Nouveau modèle

Outre le statut légal, le modèle d’affaires a été élargi: d’une pure spécialisation en blogs d’entreprise, b-spirit couvre désormais plusieurs domaines de compétence, à savoir la veille, le knowledge management, les réseaux sociaux et la stratégie en ligne dans son ensemble. Dans tous ces domaines, nous fournissons du conseil, des produits et des services.

Nouveau partenaire

Nous comptons désormais Six Apart dans la liste de nos partenaires et, par la même occasion, b-spirit devient “Movable Type Solution Provider”. Je suis très heureux de ce nouveau partenariat avec Six Apart, un acteur-clé dans le monde des blogs et des réseaux sociaux. Attendez-vous à plus d’informations sur Movable Type très prochainement. Quelques autres partenariats intéressants sont actuellement à l’étude.

Nouveau site web

Pour mettre en avant tous ces changements, le site web a été complètement refait grâce au talent de Mathieu. N’hésitez pas à faire un tour, vous pouvez même laisser des commentaires vidéos! Désormais, plus de temps sera consacré au blog, avec des articles, des vidéos, des liens, des analyses, etc.

Nouveaux fils

Ceux qui suivaient l’actualité de b-spirit (et ceux qui s’y mettent maintenant) doivent mettre à jour leur agrégateur comme suit:

• Billets en français: http://feeds.feedburner.com/b-spirit_fr
• Billets en anglais: http://feeds.feedburner.com/b-spirit_en
• Billets en français + en anglais: http://feeds.feedburner.com/b-spirit

De plus, vous pouvez vous abonner à une combinaison de nos billets + de nos liens sur del.icio.us + de notre timeline sur Twitter via la page d’accueil.

La suite

D’autres nouveautés suivront prochainement (l’agenda de b-spirit est plein). Restez à l’écoute!

“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.

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.

• Organize: Twine is a central repository where you can keep information about your interests. As you add information to Twine, it is automatically tagged so that you and others can find it more easily. You are able to add items by bookmarking web content, posting by email and contributing directly in Twine.
• Share: Connect with individuals and groups, gather and share content, and engage in discussions around your interests. By connecting with other members of Twine you can share information with each other. Connecting with others lets Twine know what shared interests each user has so Twine can offer better recommendations. Twine is a service that helps you start and join interest networks called twines. Instead of using old-fashioned groupware, twines are a smarter way to collaborate and share knowledge with a collaborative team.
• Discover: Twine connects you with new people, content and products that match your interests, and helps other people discover you and your contributions. Items in Twine can be searched, filtered and sorted in order to help you find the exact item you are looking for. You can also explore Twine by looking at the activity of twines, people and items by their activity in Twine. As you use Twine, it learns about your interests and will recommend people, twines and items for you.

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…

“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.

Via ZDNet and BBC.

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.