LinkedIn is aiming at keeping its users happy. In terms of Social Media, Facebook springs to mind with its 850 million users and growing every day. Yet, there is another social media behemoth which launched in 2003 and has only –…
This is the session synopsis of my keynote presentation at Figaro Digital in London on November 23, 2011. I only used a few slides which I will provide later on. In this presentation I gave my tips for organising social media teams in large organisations, based on my current experience at Orange.
This is part 1 of this presentation. In order to gather all parts, click or use the following short link: http://bit.ly/figaroyag11
[all photos by Yann Gourvennec: http://bit.ly/picasayann]
Red tape is good for business! So I read in an article published in the “briefing” section of Time magazine dated November 14, 2011 (“The Deregulation Myth: Ignore the rhetoric, nations with more rules grow faster). In this article, Time…
As I started writing this article at the beginning of October 2011 , the http://www.programmableweb.com/[1] web site indicated on its home page that it has identified 4007 APIs and 6175 mash-ups on a global footprint: At the moment you are reading this piece on the Visionary Marketing, I am certain these numbers are completely outdated. I agree that, Dear Developers, these numbers are still very far from your ‘Ocean of Apps’ but this new ecosystem nevertheless starts to look like a ‘Jungle of APIs’.
On October 26, I attended the IStrategy conference, which took place in Amsterdam. I was there to deliver a keynote on social media are ROI Still, I must confess I also attended the conference to listen to Jimmy Wales who…
Measuring ROI/ROE in Social Media initiatives isn’t easy. As announced in a previous post, I was keynoting at the iStrategy conference in Amsterdam on Oct. 26. On top of the short video clip which I have recorded with my team in order to…
Today’s annoying announcement by Social Media influence analysis tool Klout. I suddenly discovered that my score had been significantly downgraded to 52 and the “specialist” category, all down from 65 or 67 and the “broadcaster” status. I then realised that…
This morning the first-panel discussion at the Istrategy digital conference in Amsterdam was entitled “Audience Engagement, User Experience and Social Monetisation”. Angry Birds: no one has cracked the value of a Facebook fan Amber Osbourne kick-started the panel by saying…
Social Media ROI isn’t easy. As announced in a previous post, I will be keynoting at the forthcoming iStrategy conference in Amsterdam on Oct. 26. In order to introduce this keynote, I have recorded a short video clip with my…
One of Forbes's contributors, Tim Worstall (profile here) , has this story about Google+ and its supposed demise, in which he shows that in fact, Google's network is still growing. That seems to be th ecase, with Larry Page's announcement of 40 million users last Thursday. It has yet to be proven how many actually use it. Last week, there were more comments about how an engineer screwed up with the sharing system, than about the actual number of users of the platform though - by the way, the said engineer argued that this was not a platform and that the problem was there. Last but not least, mashable took a stab at Google's execs about the fact that they weren't eating their own dog food. Maybe they feel a bit iffy about having to start their Facebook network all over again? Last but not least, all diaspora "users" received an email last week in which the new social media star was begging for money. Off to a bad start it seems. I personally opened my account, understood the principle but saw no added value in it I'm afraid. I know that it is said that Google+ mimicked their interface and not the other way round, but yet ... By the way, as Worstall mischievously points out, is this Google plus ou Google+? He may not be a social media guru, but he asks very valid questions (excerpts per below and link to main Forbes article). At any rate the shift towards Google+ is now complete, due to the phasing out of Google Buzz (and that was revealed only a few hours ago).
PepsiCo isn’t really a brand name you will naturally associate with the word ‘innovation’. One may be wrong though. PepsiCo UK, the company behind famous CPG brands such as Gatorade, 7up or Walkers may not be a high-tech giant as such but it…
What is Copyright Protection? The question might seem ludicrous but who knows what the “Berne Convention” is and what particular countries did or didn’t ratify it. It is too often taken for granted that material taken from the Internet is free…
