Month: June 2010

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. The fact that there are fewer B2B examples of the…

To BNT, the network isn’t just about pipes; it’s a true business enabler. On June 3rd, 2010, at the end of our press trip in Silicon Valley, we have had the opportunity to meet with Vikram Mehta, President and CEO of Blade Network Technologies (BNT), a four-year-old company dedicated to…

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 a press tour – with various start-ups in the areas…

On June 2nd, 2010 we had the opportunity to meet with Howard Greenfield, president ofGO associates, a global consulting firm that helps companies bring technology to the market place. Howard Greenfield is also EIR (i.e. Executive In Residence) at the plug and play Tech center, a unique facility in Sunnyvale…

If you haven’t been able to attend the Ragan Social Media Summit which took place in San Jose or even online, you can still have a feel of what my presentation was. The pitch was about our work at Orange Business Services with regard to Social Media. Here is the…

Will the rise of cloud computing mean that the end of offline software is near? A great deal has been already said on this blog and elsewhere on the subject of cloud computing but our meeting with Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist for Zoho and Sridhar Vembu, the firm’s founder and…