SAP is one of the founding members of the Social Media Business Council. On November 9, SAP was hosting Blogwell, SMBC’s open event dedicated to social media in which each presentation (8 in total) is delivered by a SMBC member.…
You may not yet be familiar with Cisco and its ‘trusted advisor’ approach – in which the equipment provider is raising the bar and advising its clients rather than just selling to them. But what is a ‘trusted advisor’ and…
Carlos Jordan de Urries and Chrystele Bazin, senior consultants at Sofrecom (a France Telecom Company) have updated us on the status of Social Media in emerging markets last Monday in Cairo. In this presentation, we’ll focus less on international Social…
Good morning, we are on Monday, the twenty-first of January zero two thousand and eight. No this isn’t a typo, but rather a sign that we are taking into account the fact that humanity still has a few millenniums to…
What is the status of Social media in the Middle East? I have just come back from Cairo, where I was invited by the heads of the Cairo Orange Labs (see the video here) and their French counterparts in order…
According to Synthesio’s Moisand, the social media monitoring market has greatly evolved since 2006 and showed signs of maturity in the consolidation actions among various actors. Scoutlabs was bought out by Lithium Technologies, Sysomos by Marketwire. The bought-out companies were…
Jamie Moss, a principal analyst at Informa telecoms and media, and columnist at telecoms.com has this interesting story about the m2m market and the positioning of carriers within this market. Informa analyst describes pacified M2M market Moss’s account follows Informa’s…
How to boost your events with social media. Here are the tips we can give to marketers who would like to integrate social media into their traditional events in order to make them something different and positioning for their brand.…
One of my favourite subjects is the (mis)use of Email and bullying in the workplace. I have nothing against the tool per se, I’ve been using it for a long time, but I openly bear a grudge against those who…
Arista brings cloud networking in the data centre and increases performance 5 times for 10 times less power. On 3 June 2010 we had the opportunity to meet with some very important figures of the Silicon Valley in Menlo Park California.…
Clustrix is a start-up which devised a new file data management system to support highly transactional Websites. Paul Mikesell, CEO and co-founder of Clustrix explained that his aim was to help “Web businesses spend less time working on their infrastructure, and…
As I have witnessed time and time again, it is customary to say that B2C is more adapted to the use of social media than B2B. As matter of fact, I am not at all certain that this is true.…
