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social media & social networks
Ballmer “everywhere I go I see paper and pencils”
Paper and pencils are still everywhere, Steve Ballmer said. I attended an EBG (Electronic Business Group, an influential French e-business Think-Tank) conference on Nov 8 in Paris, at which Steve Ballmer was speaking. It has taken a while to process my notes but here they are at last, sometimes answering…
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social media & social networks
Social Media is evolving into Social Mass Media – A Hootsuite video
A few days ago, I received an e-mail message from Canadian ISV Hootsuite telling me that my video was online. Then I was swamped with a flurry of tweets and mentions about some of the insights I had delivered in that video. I am very grateful to Hootsuite for shooting…
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Digital technology
Gartner’s Vision On Data Privacy and The Future Of Mobility
What will be the future of mobility like? The opening session I attended this morning at the Gartner symposium was entitled “by 2017 your smartphone will be smarter than you”. The speakers were Martin Reynolds and Carolina Milanesi from Gartner and the moderator was Charles Arthur from the Guardian. As a matter-of-fact,…
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Digital technology
A pictorial guide to my Business portable Samsung Galaxy S4 office
As I am preparing for the Gartner symposium in Barcelona, due to take place on November 11 – 14, having been kindly invited by Samsung to join a team of bloggers, it seemed only natural that I would write up a little story about how I am using my brand-new…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
The Man Who Wants To Teach The Web To The Whole World
There is a man in California, who wants to teach the Web to the whole world. November 2013, a very important event, named Web2connect is about to take place in Paris, France. Web2connect, as the name goes, is the place to be for all start-ups and Internet professionals in France…
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Content Marketing
Content marketing in UK and Europe: mind the Gap!
What is the status of content marketing in Europe compared to the UK? There has been questions in certain European countries with regard to how widespread the adoption of contact marketing on the continent could have been. Although undeniable progress has been made in the past few years over here…
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Digital technology
Infographic: Why passwords are a necessary evil
Passwords are ubiquitous. We all use them and despite the fact that we keep grumbling that they aren’t good enough, we still rely on them in order to protect our most precious information like bank account details, personal and electronic commerce details and such like. What I learned today while…
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Digital technology
Legal Copy of Microsoft Office With CloudOn
Let’s make the most of the summer with a bit of light reading and what I would call the application of the week: CloudOn. I have selected a number of applications which I find particularly good or changed my way of working, or of entertaining myself unless it’s both. This…
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digital Transformation
Marketforce Set to Improve European Shopping Experience
Shopping experience monitoring and mystery shoppers aren’t anything new; this marketing technique dates back from the 1940s. It was then used even before the term “marketing” had been coined. Yet, MarketForce, a US company with offices in Britain, and more recently in France and Spain, have begun to revolutionise the…
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digital marketing
Sinek and the Golden Circle of innovation
Sinek and the golden circle of innovation Today’s selection is this motivational video by Simon Sinek, a master in the Art of captivating the audience while only teaching a single thing and demonstrating it several times in the course of the same recording session. I find the video as impressive…
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Digital technology
What innovation really means: the data center robotics example
Data Center robotics can help us understand innovation a little better. We’ve already asked this question many times. What is innovation? What does it mean to build/sell/buy something “new”. And inevitably, as we ask this question, we leave a door open to interpretation. “innovation is in the eye of the beholder”…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Infographic: Understanding Credit how Card Numbers work
I tend to bitch about infographics every now and then, but sometimes you find something which is really valuable. Like the following diagram by Jess.net about how credit card numbers work. Obviously, it’s meant for you to understand the nomenclature and not actually crack the codes. Goes without saying. Legend:…
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