What’s the state of the global economy? Daniel Thorniley (left) runs his own private business consultancy, but in his own words, he is not a “loser”. He has 235 Corporate clients even though he is on his own. He was…
Our friends from Likeminds in Exeter have asked me to write a little piece about me and the Web and it didn’t have to do with business matters, so there it is, with a few literary references of no consequence.…
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…
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…
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…
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can teach us a few things. I summed it all up in 8 short lessons. I have just come back from a week spent in Silicon Valley, during which I was able to have meetings – as part of…
The Morgan Stanley report entitled “media and the Internet, how teenagers consume media” is one of the most striking examples of instant information circulation on a global scale. Matthew Robson — a 15-year-old trainee who was asked to put together…
Managing one's online reputation has become a must. It is absolutely unthinkable for anyone who wants to make a professional appointment to leave a photograph on one's facebook profile in which he or she is holding a glass of champagne and assuming weird poses (and God knows I came across quite a few counter examples). Many chances are that the person with whom you are about to have an appointment has just gone straight to ’Google’ your name on the Internet. This is what is called online reputation (or online identity) management (abbreviated ORM), that is to say your image as it is showing online through Internet and social media exposure.
Corporate strategy is the responsibility of the Board and mainly of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who must, among other things, imprint her vision on the organisation and define the strategy. She must build the DNA of the company and…
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.
