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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Playfish was one of the 2009 success stories. It’s also been a huge personal success for the founders, who sold the business for £240M last year. There is also a massive shift for the gaming industry, the economics of gaming is driving business model changes. As a result you don’t have to be a big brand or established business to have success. image from shutterstock Social gaming is a hot topic here at SXSW.
 
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Developing network-centric KPIs and Indicators In Q3 2009 Symantec and ValueNetworks.com began using value network business intelligence approaches with the intent of improving the web-based customer experience and reducing the need for agent-based support. The Value Network Insights application was used to evaluate and process data from Symantec's customer support applications. As a logical extension of ongoing efforts to synchronize agent - and web-based customer support, the primary goal of this project was to better understand [F1] the factors influencing customer usage of agent- and web-based support.
 
Friday, March 12, 2010
You can see it here, at Conde Nast , busy iPadding up with Wired and GQ ; here, with Sport’s Illustrated (you’re not allowed to watch the swimwear section); and here’s Interview on iPad, a magazine of pages on a screen (see four below from the iPhone app), with a little video thrown in. They believe you can pour a magazine (and its business model) straight and unadulterated into a new medium that works in an entirely different way. The commonplace view within magazine publishing is that the iPad is going to save their industry. Will it?
 

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Business Trends Cartoon by role on the panel is to talk about What's Next in Business. important current trends in business: The dawn dawn of an age of uncertainty, and a refocusing on business risk and sustainability: BLOG Ten Important Business by Robert Weber
another generation, this isn't a need in business-to-business organizations, business-to-customer websites, like Amazon, eBay and Etsy, all offer a range mashups customized to suit your particular business -- there are dozens of new applications that will soon be used in other businesses: gaming and dating. BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka
We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. And what is free stuff anyway – marketing? advertising?
Here’s speculation by The Business Insider on Facebook’s revenue streams: Earlier this week (July 2nd 2009) we spoke to several sources who each have some insight into Facebook’s financials (none of them know precisely). Taking the sources’ input together, we’d estimate the company’s expected 2009 revenue this way: $125 Social media monetization is a funny thing – most people don’t understand that where there are people, there is money. It is highly improbable that the day will come when millions of people together
In this video taken at the Mayor of San Francisco’s press conference, @ev (Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter) is talking about how businesses use Twitter… and government departments Retail local business is interesting to @ev - they don’t use online a lot usually. Increase in pie business 10-20% since Twittering. Some of his examples and points: Events - Earthquakes creates viral spike in activity
If a social psychologist were to design a business, as an experiment of course, she would take all the information she knows about a) person b) environment and c) their interaction and design a system to account for it all. Aware of people's fundamental need to belong, she might conceive of the organization as a vast network of groups; understanding differences in culture, and cultural perceptions, she might afford a more collective orientation by priming team goals and rewarding participation; knowledgeable about interpersonal dynamics she might enable real-time communication and meta-communication
Continuing further with some of the highlights from IBM ’s Lotusphere 2009 event that I attended in Orlando, FL, in January 2009, I thought I would cover what, to me, was one of the most inspiring and thought-provoking moments throughout the entire event. Those moments were actually a number of conversations that throughout the event I had the pleasure of having with my good friend David Tebutt , who was also at Lotusphere (And who blogged his experiences over at his own blog ), where we eventually brainstormed for quite a bit on the whole thing around the subject of
understands what the business of the organizations is all about -- how decisions And senior managers are too busy to spend much quality time with either employees careers -- not enough time to really figure out "the business of the business" business" in any of them. BLOG What's Next After Knowledge Knowledge Management?
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A “top list” of social networks and online communities for business and corporate. Australian Business Forum - have a forum, tumbleweed territory - John Rashleigh, Chairman Australian Women Online - supporting women in business Australia’s community for Not blogs - they must have community features of many-to-many discussions, leaders, UGC etc.  Here’s my Australian list: