Business Development Ideas

Blog Entry - Thu, 2008-08-07 07:49 by jim wilde

Death Sells

That's right. Death sells. There is a definitive link between death and consumer behavior according to a study by Professor Naomi Mandel and co-author, Dirk Smeesters of the Rotterdam School of Management.

Blog Entry - Sat, 2008-05-10 08:00 by jim wilde

Web 3.0, RDF, and the Semantic Web

RDF is a W3C standard for modeling and sharing distributed knowledge based on a decentralized open-world assumption.

Blog Entry - Mon, 2008-04-07 10:39 by jim wilde

Social shopping sites ringing up sales

Amazon figured out social shopping and e-comm - social e-commerce - a long time ago. They made it easy for consumers (aka prosumers) to make recommendations, write reviews and then share the information with other users. Although, I am not surprised that these ideas failed to catch on with most businesses. Interestingly, most businesses today are missing out on web 2.0 too.

Blog Entry - Mon, 2008-03-17 08:05 by jim wilde

Improving customer services with social networking software.

Customer facing employees using social networking software are improving customer services. Employees are able to collaborate and share what they know with other employees and learn what they don't know about customers.

Blog Entry - Fri, 2008-03-14 06:17 by jim wilde

Important technologies for 2008 - Collaboration Tools - Social Networks

CIO Insight, "Collaboration tools—which allow employees to brainstorm, plan, analyze, share work and make decisions together—are among the most important technologies of 2008.

Blog Entry - Sun, 2008-03-09 09:07 by jim wilde

Keeping up with rapidly changing times.

The open-source software movement developed because people had an "itch to scratch". One that "off-the-shelf" software did not support or was too costly to use. In the open source community people want to contribute, learn and share their knowledge and experience. They want to participate in a rich learning environment.

Blog Entry - Tue, 2008-03-04 11:46 by jim wilde

Social Networks, Communities, & Rich Learning Environments

The following two posts are about advertising and new business models. My interests in them is about how we learn new things, share ideas, social information management (SIM) and flow in a workplace social network or community. In other words, how do we create a rich learning environment? One that helps employees and stakeholders sort through the clutter?

Blog Entry - Wed, 2008-02-20 12:37 by jim wilde

Enterprise COBOL Applications Meet Web 2.0 - Social Software

JP Rangaswami, on his blog, confused of calcutta, has an insightful discussion, "Musing about enterprise information and flow. ...doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, search engines, aggregators, ad servers, data miners, ad servers and text scrapers?

Blog Entry - Wed, 2008-02-13 11:09 by jim wilde

Marketing 1.0 to 2.0 considerations

I'm trying to find a theme that connects the following posts. One theme might be on the transition from marketing 1.0 to marketing 2.0? Hint! Hint! Take the time to read the comments on them - they atr fantastic.

Blog Entry - Tue, 2008-02-12 10:59 by jim wilde

Mobile Social Networking and Communities Growing

Wow - Check out this article, "Mobile Social Networking Revenues Could Reach Us$52 Billion by 2012", from Cellular News.

Misc. 2

Most Emailed

One

Scenario 1. An internal customer has come to you with a problem. Her team is consistently missing deadlines because of poor communication. E-mails frequently go unread for days, members do not respond to questions in a timely fashion and too many meetings are required to get everybody back on track. Read more about Web 2.0 and Social networking behind the firewall...

Two

Scenario 2. You are losing business. Customers are defecting to competitors. Your web site is like a museum - look but do not touch and customer experience is non-existent. Your information is outdated, hard to find and reflects poorly on your brand. There is a significant cognitive difference between browsing, shopping, comparing, choosing and buying.
Redesign your site - join the social web.

Three

Scenario 3. You have problems - gaps - that your business strategy and IT applications fail to address. Your employees, customers, and stakeholders want to get work done. You need to innovate and help people find solutions.
There is no easy way to capture, share, and track important yet informal information. The kind of information that is not organized or reused - it should be - but tends to get lost. The kind that helps you make better decisions, improve work flows, and customer support. Read more....