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So you are a marketing professional, passionate about social software and looking for a new challenge ?

If you recognized yourself in the title of this post, maybe I've got something for you.  A leading european player in the enterprise social software field I know very well, considered as a visionary in  the last Gartner Magic Quadrant for social sotware in the workplace is hiring its...

Story of a professional disconnection

This little story I'm going to tell you is purely imaginary. It's neither mine nor anybody's in particular. But it may become ours, one day. January 2009 :Back to the office after a few days off. I take five minutes to send my greetings to all my friends. Nothing's like...

What Steve Jobs can teach us

I found a best of Steve Jobs'quotations. Some of them should be taught at school and studied by many companies' boards. • "Always have a beginner mind". It's true that I have the impression that I do things better when i try to envisage thme with new eyes rather than trying...

Do You Know Social Business ?

There was a lot of people at the "Theatre Marigny", in Paris a few weeks ago. So many people that not everybody who wanted to attend managed to get a seat. It wasn't the latest trendy show...or maybe yes. The first opus of a show that can be called...

Do french companies really understand nothing to web 2.0 ?

A recent Jemm Research survey made upon IBM request shows that french companies can't identify web 2.0 tools and their benefits. Do we have to worry about that ? According to me the way things are asked introduces a bias in the answer, most of because they took the...

Quotations between provocation and good sense

Sometimes I find sentences which are really worth by themselves, that have a lot of meaning, whether in or out of their original context. I often bookmark them but this time I think they're worth a post. As a matter of fact I find two series of nice quotations...

The (netvibes) universe for Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge economy is open

I gave up using netvibes to follow RSS feeds a long time ago because if I found it nice to build a home page it was not the right tool for following hundreds of feeds efficiently. But things have changed since the new version (called Ginger) offers the capabilty...

Web 2.0 is knocking on French companies’ doors

A few words about a recentTNS Sofres survey about the use of web 2.0 in France and user's expectations. Just one thing to take into consideration : the following numbers are about web 2.0 users in France that's to say, according to the survey, 58% of the population. I think...

Société Générale : lack of control or systemic failure ?

I'm sure you heard about what happend to French Bank Societe Generale who lost 5 billions euros because of one of its traders. Many question came about the efficiency of the controls which failed. I even read blogs saying that, considering it was a matter of control, of...