The second blogwell social media presentation at Blogwell #3 which took place on April 29 in NYC, was that of Molly Schonthal from Nokia, who is in charge of social media for the Finnish cell phone manufacturer in the US,…
Are they any good reasons why you should hate social media? This is the unabridged version of my article published at CBS news. In a previous article about social media, we have described the 8 reasons why managers love social media and…
Why do businesses love social media? I have come across many executives from various countries and diverse backgrounds, and it seems that they fall in either of 2 categories: those who love and those who hate Social Media (née Web…
When innovating wrong questions are the right questions. On March 4th, 2009, I was able to meet and have breakfast with, at last, and after a few missed opportunities, Alain Thys in Paris. Alain is one of the partners of…
Catherine Hearn – a seasoned expert at Heidrick & Struggles, an exec search company, and a Bnet columnist, has this interesting story on Bnet about job seeking in the current downturn. And I think she has a very valid point. After…
The blog Council is an association in charge of promoting social media usage by and for the benefit of so-called "big logos". Among the members one will find corporations like GM, Wells Fargo, Procter & Gamble, Kmart and of course Orange Business Services (proudly represented by yours truly).
The council is not just in charge of promoting the usage of social media in the enterprise world. It is of course a - very private - club enabling heads of Internet from major companies around the world to get together and exchange tips and ideas. But the council has also decided to turn itself into a publisher in order to let its members share their vision of the ROI of corporate blogging. Calls for papers were issued by the council late September 2008, and members sent their contributions by October 13 as planned. All contributions will be combined and put together into a collective book which will be published by the council. Much more will be said about that book during the blog Council conference which is planned for the end of October in San Jose.
Business week has a very brief story - relayed by innovation tools on their site - on why businesses should go on investing in innovation. Atkins argues that companies have to go on investing in innovation in order to dominate in the next decade. He is right, but unfortunately doesn't explain why?
Poor is the substance, alas! and yet I've read all the books(1) was Stephane Mallarme's introduction to "Brise Marine" a cryptic yet exalted poem in which the author was venting his Baudelairian 'spleen' (i.e. in its archaic sense something like the modern 'blues' or existential malaise - Merriam & Websters meaning 3), and the urge to flee towards new horizons as if a refreshing breeze from the sea (hence the title) was enticing him to leave his home, everything mundane and above all his new-born child who kept him awake at night and prevented him from creating. Such was the thought that came to my mind when I came across Michael Kinsley's article in Time magazine entitled 'too much information'.
Corporate blogging isn't easy... And Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff published an interesting report about why people don't trust most company blogs. In fact, looking closer at Josh's comments, it's not corportae blogs but corporate speak that clients don't trust.
John Earnhardt from Cisco at BlogwellIn this article we'll describe the take aways from John Earnhardt's
presentation at BlogWell (http://www.gaspedal.com/blogwell) about the development of Corporate WebTVs and Vlogging and I will also establish a comparison - in part two of this post - with our own experience on the launch of our own WebTV at http://orange-business.tv
