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”?
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.
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.
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.
In this post you’ll find a dozen very short reviews of Social Media networks and tools: their advantages over other networks and capabilities that you may be looking for. You can immediately see an example of this by following the links in each review. If you are looking for an instant network on each site: feel free to join our groups on each of them to find other Social Media Explorers.
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
Since we all spend so much time using and enjoying Social Media, I would like to give those of you that haven’t seen it yet a tip: www.flock.com has enhanced it’s browser for optimum social media usage.
Trying to combine Business and Social Media can feel like a slippery slide as mixing friendship and business holds some risks: nobody wants to risk a friendship for a crappy product and nobody wants to offend their friends by saying no to them. So: what if we could reduce this risk? What would it take to make this risk into a negligable calculated risk? Basically it all comes down to ballistics…
Widgets can be an excellent way to create some attention online for yourself, your site, your products or your services. Even if you’re not a skilled programmer or otherwise gifted nerd or guru of the web, widgets can help you get your message across because they are spread by others creating a viral distribution. But where can you find easy and effective tools to create and distribute them? Here are some examples we made with a great service that could have you create effective widgets in no time at all. Not inspired? Check out the hundreds of widgets on our free network…
Internet in general and Social Media in particular hold the promise of a sense of frictionless and effortless movement through a world without obstacles between you and your success: but are they? Here are some easy shortcuts to avoid financial, social and technological obstacles and turn them to your advantage.
Facebook’s versatile micro-blogging service FriendFeed and Twitter’s trendsetting service have put micro-blogging in the forefront of the Titanic struggle for domination of the internet by some of the largest Social Media sites. But what does Google bring to the table when it comes to Micro-Blogging? Buzz…
If ever there was a great metaphor for Social Media this must be it: we each contribute something to a seemingly random structure of words, thoughts, code, images and before you know it we’ve created something from nothing: solid ground to stand on and in our case do actual business on.
The surprisingly intricate Science of The Retweet may give you some new ideas on how to utilize Twitter and Twitter search as a resource for your business.Find out about the best URL shorteners, keywords and other statistics on the best ways to attract attention with your tweets and how you can influence the likelyhood that you are being retweeted.
Executives all over the world are inundated with an endless stream of information. Digital files, hard copy documents, pictures and videos are constantly coming in or out of an office. Collecting, organizing, archiving and retrieving such information is becoming a common challenge, especially, when critical and immediate decisions have to be made. Solutions…
Managing Your Presence On Many Social Media: A Problem? Not at All!
Lately I have seen messages of people on all kinds of networks saying they can’t manage their presence on all those networks anymore and are leaving some of them because they simply can’t manage it anymore.You can save a lot of time networking if you do it a certain way: the easy way!
Five tools to save time networking while maintaining an effective presence on a large number of Social Media.
The HOB.Biz now has it’s own Online Office Collaboration Space where you can edit and share many kinds of documents and even websites. All of these capabilities are fully integrated with MS Office environment and you can edit and store the documents from within MS Word, Excel etc. It’s called The HOB Networker PRO Silver Edition and is part of a series of solutions for professional networkers as well as networking professionals.
In business school one of the most iconic examples of the failure of a technologically superior product at the hand of a technologically inferior product cited is that of the Philips Video 2000 facing Sony’s VHS system. The reason cited: that Sony was smart enough to make sure thousands of video’s were available for it’s inferior system where Philips paid less attention to distribution and more to technological development. Consequently the VHS system reigned for a decade and the Video 2000 withered away. The one system starts from a top down engineer’s mindset, the other from a bottom up user interest approach. Similarly social media generate huge amounts of content: to each his own, where websites who don’t cater for user interaction have less content and fail to cater to each individual’s taste.
At The HOB we are always innovating: integrating new ways to leverage Social Media for Business, adding new applications and amassing a vast amount of business know how with an excellent group of professionals and business owners. Learn more…
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