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digital marketing
entente cordiale: French blog listed by Britishblogs
This blog is not just wearing its badge of honour. It has also been spotted by the Britishblogs digg-like list of rss links. At a time when most people think that the entente cordiale is a thing of the past, I am under the impression that this is a good…
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Marketing & Innovation
Online innovation course material for download
On April 23rd, I delivered a course on the marketing of technological innovations to the students of the MIB Dauphine, thanks to the recommendation of Jean François David. Innovation course material for download This MBA is carried out in partnership with the University of San Francisco. The course material is…
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Marketing & Innovation
Wikinomics and the source of innovation
Wikinomics, this linking of people and ideas, is what is really driving innovation in the long run. Howard Rheingold’s vision of ‘the guy in the basement‘ who is the one responsible for innovation is becoming reality. I have attached a great article in which Rheingold depicts the importance of collaboration…
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Marketing & Innovation
Mashable aims at mashing up press
Here we go again, the mashable social networking news website which originates from the UK is now setting shop on the Continent with clear intentions to take over the world of printed media. This and other initiatives like Italian born Web pioneer Revelli’s Agoravox is setting the pace for a complete…
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Marketing & Innovation
Innovation: Moss Kanter describes innovation classic traps
What are the most obvious of innovation traps? Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the former chief editor of the Harvard Business Review, a distinguished Professor at Harvard and an innovation pundit. Innovation: Moss Kanter describes innovation classic traps Now she contributes to the review from time to time and she is…
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Content Marketing
Corporate blogs the Cisco way
Corporate blogs the Cisco way. OK, I’m ready to admit to it, I am a Cisco fan and I really think it’s a great company. I was lucky enough to be their counterpart at Orange Business Services for three years running and I am very proud of what we did…
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social media & social networks
IBM Dutch Arm (Nearly) Takes Corporate Blogging To Next Level
IBM ‘s Dutch Arm has almost created a best practice in the field of Corporate Blogging. Close but no cigar, however. The world of large Multinational Corporations is hardly thought of as a place for entrepreneurship and risk. And indeed, there aren’t so many best practices in the world of Corporate…
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social media & social networks
Are there any tangible signs that Web 2.0 is another bubble?
Since the beginning, the Web 2.0 craze has triggered thoughts by many an observer as to whether the concept was a fad, a bubble or even just a rehash of earlier Internet ideas that failed. As in this recent WSJ article, debating this subject is pretty much a matter of…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
IT in Japan: a survey of IT in the land of the rising sun
IT sector in Japan. Michael Thulin is providing access to a few studies which help us understand what the status of broadband subscribers is like in the world and how countries compare to each other (see an excerpt on the left-hand side). IT in Japan: a survey of IT in…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
4,300 major contributors maintain Wikipedia regularly
This is a question I had had for a long time. One felt that online collaboration was becoming mainstream. Still, I had my doubts about the sheer mass of users who were major contributors to a project like the much publicised Wikipedia. Q: Who maintains Wikipedia? A: 4,300 major contributors…
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Digital technology
Safe Wifi Roaming in all our cities is within reach, soon
Ever dreamed of using free Wifi roaming? http://fon.com is a website enabling you to use your home Internet gateway and turn it into a public hotspot for the FON community. Please note that not all ISP’s have signed a deal with FON. Safe Wifi Roaming in all our cities is…
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Marketing & Innovation
MIT digital drawing board: Innovation, really?
In the following video presentation, you will discover the so-called MIT digital drawing board complete with geometrical recognition and simulation of movements. What can this video teach us on innovation? Quite a lot in fact! MIT digital drawing board: Innovation is in the eye of the beholder Everybody on the…
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