I recently visited the IDC Cloud Conference in Amsterdam to get an overview of some of the major trends in cloud computing and it’s impact on enterprise IT. What is cloudcomputing? What impact does it have on my organization, processes and products? What do Amazon S3, Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Box.net, Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, Shopify and LinkedIn have in common? What are Saas, Paas? Iaas? Multi Tennant server environments? Virtualization? Why should I care? What risks and opportunities are involved? In the article below you will find some answers.
Recent surveys by Forrester and ComScore can teach us interesting things about the usage and worldwide distribution of social media. Forrester has mapped age, country and gender across seven types of social media users they’ve defined. ComScore has mapped social media penetration in world wide markets. Find out more: what social media user type are you? What types are dominant in your market or demographic?
Choosing an online shopping cart can be quite difficult because there are so many variables to consider such as SEO, security, social media readiness, media integration options, integration with your real business processes and bookkeeping, taxes, shipping, payment options and more. In addition you can choose a self hosted option or opt for a system that is hosted on the servers of the shopping cart vendor. Learn more…
Want to get serious about using Twitter to market your services? Need to measure how much impact a topic has on Twitter? Or just curious about your Twitter “performance” or someone elses? Good news: there are lots of analytics tool you can use to measure topics, followers, retweets and more. Some of them even provide you with free useful tools and widgets to integrate into your site or blog.
One way of approaching product- and business development is watching technological trends such as: Social Media, Green Technology, Tablet PC’s, Mobile Apps and “The Internet of Things” that offer the promise of new markets opening up. How do you integrate these technology trends…
Google’s Agenda is to push cloud-computing and make their Chrome browser a platform from which you use all your productivity and other apps. In this article you will find a way to build a communications and office dashboard in less then 10 minutes by simply adding a number of powerful free apps form the Google Chrome App Store. Are you ready to embrace Google’s vision? Find out by giving it a try..
The new technologies emerging everyday from the world of web 2.0 markets are placing new demands on governments, businesses and individuals. Great opportunities and potential threats require new skills to deal with the constantly increasing “Openness”. Freedoms and responsibilities closely associated with an ever increasing transparency force people from all walks of life including business to come to grips with a new ethos as the accomplishments of the winner and runner up of Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year in 2010 illustrate.Are you ready for the new “Openness”?
Developing a website or service that enables web 2.0 social interactions and caters to mobile devices and other preferences of your audience can be either difficult or easy. Before you start off on a development rampage it is probably smart to make a few strategic choices that can save you time and money in the long run. These are some of them.
Professionals create a lot of specialized information that is locked within the organization and inaccesible to others. This could be much more of an asset then is currently the case for many organizations. Some suggestions and practical guidelines on unlocking the power of this knowledge for commercial purposes.
Android is a popular and fast-growing platform for web 2.0 enabled smartphones. Surprisingly: different smartphones and devices have different versions of Android pre-installed.Want to know which version is on your smartphone or want to install Android on your old Windows Mobile 6 phone? Learn more…
New Digg keeps annoying. Where we earlier reported they deleted your content with the transition to new Digg, we now find them auto-posting in your name. Determining for you which stories you Digg.
One of the more innovative new features at Xing is called “The Mobile Handshake”. They also added powerful search and sort functionality, outlook integration, more (advanced) mobile features, share buttons and a toolbar. It is a thorough overhaul and offers great value for money if compared to some of the other larger social networks. But apart from the “Mobile Handshake” it seems Xing is not taking any big risks as in trying to be on the forefront of technology.
You probably have a Skype subscription or use some other VoiP (Voice Over IP) service. Now you have another alternative:Google Voice For GMail and Google Chat!It may very well be that this step by Google is a sign that the VoiP market for consumers is now maturing and will replace the landline and mobile infrastructures in the next few years. More cheap VoiP devices will be developed and cost of usage may be lowered even more dramatically. This will give home users and small businesses similar opportunities as have been around in the corporate market for years.Is it time to ditch your landline? Maybe (not). Learn more…
The problem with Google Wave is not so much on the technological side as it is in the distribution model.This month Google said it will drop the experimental service Google Wave.”Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” said Google senior vice president Urs Holzle in a blog post.Clearly Google Wave offers a promising combination of technologies, allowing you to chat, share, bookmark and collaborate in all kinds of other ways in a single stream of activity.Had Google taken a more open approach to the product’s introduction with many more third party plugins and options, more along the lines of Twitter’s business model, I think the product might have been a success.
Googling the term you’re after is just not enough. If you want to know where you stand in terms of brand awareness compared to the competition, you’d better have some tools to make it easier for you.Find some in depth search tools in this article. Multi-site trackers, tools to measure Twitter and Facebook activity as well as tools for bloggers. Learn more about them and try them yourself: they’re all free.
With so many Social Media out there: create accounts for the right reasons. These twelve ultra short reviews give you the main capabilities and drawbacks of each site in a few sentences each and links to an instant network and relevant tools.Part III in a series.
With so many Social Media out there: create accounts for the right reasons. These twelve ultra short reviews give you the main capabilities and drawbacks of each site in a few sentences each and links to an instant network and relevant tools.
Having a company blog makes a lot of sense. Wordpress.com offers a lot of value for a free blogging service but as soon as you need any functionality beyond the considerable free resources to give your blog some professional appeal, you have to pay a fee or there are limitations in place.Installing Wordpress.org is a simple process which only takes a few minutes. Adding functionality and customizing can be quite time-consuming. There are some implications to choices you make during the process which you may not anticipate. This blog could be of help to you to make the right decision between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.
Networking is supposed to be fun but with the growing number of Social Networks and profiles we have to keep up to date, the commercialization of platforms and the huge amounts of spam and other uninteresting or even damaging crap we are bombarded with: is it still…fun?
By taking control of our online data and having access to it in a single place we could:
Work more effectively and more organized
See the true commercial potential of our network and benefit from it
Have more fun networking because we have more time to socialize instead of agonize
Customer Focus: solution or problem in times of crisis. As organizations brace themselves in economically hard times it seems a good moment to evaluate the benefits and risks of the Customer Centric machinery they have put- or have neglected to put into place: What is the potential of a Customer Focus approach in times of crisis: what risks are involved. Which measures and values should we adopt to make such a strategy pan out under the current conditions? Versatilty, flexibility and originality appear to be at the basis of some striking and inspiring successes even in an economic crisis.
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