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Wissenschaftler bestätigen: Wer in Facebook&Co vertreten ist, wird reich!?
Networking, das Knüpfen und Pflegen von Beziehungen, ist seit Jahres eines der Modethemen schlechthin. Jetzt haben Ökonomen untersucht, was es wirklich bringt - am Beispiel der Alumni-Netze von US-Universitäten. Lesen Sie, warum Vitamin B bares Geld wert ist. -
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Hopefully the do it before the CHILE PATAGONIA DAM Project!
The Santiago Times - English Language Newspaper in Santiago, Chile - News in Chile and Latin America, U.S. COMPANY PLANS SUBSIDY-FREE SOLAR PLANT FOR CHILE'S ATACAMA DESERT
U.S. energy company Ausra (which counts former U.S. Vice- President Al Gore as an investor) hopes to begin building a solar thermal power plant in northern Chile in 2010. The plant would be the first of its kind in the world to operate without government subsidies.
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Die neuen deutschen "Global Leader Brands": "...der Berliner Wirtschaftsprofessor Bernd Venohr hat aus seiner umfangreichen Datenbank die 100 kommenden Weltmarktführer beispielhaft zusammengestellt – und zwar nach folgenden Kriterien: Das jeweilige Unternehmen muss in seiner Branche weltweit zu den Top 3 zählen oder führend in Europa sein, der Umsatz muss im Jahr 2005 unter 50 Mio. Euro gelegen haben, und er muss in den vergangenen drei Jahren um mindestens zehn Prozent jährlich zugelegt haben..."
Although I don’t have any kids of my own yet, but I’m sure my kids won’t know what a firewall is when they reach the workplace.
Why? firewalls, the enterprise security that maintains security between employees and the public on your intranet are going to be irrelevant –and LinkedIn and other SaaS products are making this happen –one URL at a time. I’ve expanded upon this a bit more in a recent discussion with the WSJ indicating the opportunity for LinkedIn and others.
I’ve been in close contact with LinkedIn over the past year, and recently had lunch with their CEO to discuss their strategy, so I’ve been fully briefed on this platform announcement. Given the downturn in economy, this is a great market for LinkedIn to grow with users, and to offer services and features that reduce developer cost within the enterprise.
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Never stop to build, maintain and promote your Business Community! Some great advices from the Chris Brogan Blog
You know me. Once something cool happens, I try to figure out ways to share, to get you involved, and to try and inform on what I learn as I learn it. Upon
Last night after the Mobilize conference, I had a great time meeting attendees from all over. Andy Abramson was one of those and we spent a good fifteen minutes talking mobile tech. Andy lives such a mobile lifestyle that it was awesome to discuss new tools he's using. When he asked me if I had heard of Dropcard, I had to say no; it hadn't hit my radar yet. Turns out it was such a timely service to discuss because I had collected and handed out hundreds of business cards, which I'm just not a fan off. You get all these cards and have to use a tool or *gasp* manually enter all of your new contacts. What if you could avoid that all together?
Dropcard is a service that essentially eliminates the need for paper business cards between people that have text-message capable mobile phones. In other words: for basically everyone. ;) Here's what happened last night. Instead of handing me a business card, or asking for mine, Andy asked me for my e-mail address. I gave him my work e-mail which he added to his BlackBerry.
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One of the first questions business people ask is "do I need a website?" The answer to this is a resounding, yes. Absolutely. Even if you think your business is too small, too obscure, or something frivolous you don't think will or can be sold online, you are mistaken.
Everything and anything can be sold over the Internet. There are 20+ million online shoppers these days, buying everything from computers to vi [...]
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Our Joomla! Commenting Plugins rocks, but we are waiting for the JoomlaWorks update with the much needed Feature: Select Category! Check here for updates: http://forum.joomlaworks.gr/index.php?board=42.0
Over the last few months, no blogging comments engine has received as much attention, or gained as much perceived blogger momentum as has Disqus. While alternatives exist, Disqus' clean interface, tracking capabilities and the team's aggressive approach to customer support have begun to make them the alternative to standard blogging comment engines from Blogger, Wordpress and TypePad. As I previously documented, moving to Disqus has greatly improved the interactivity between me and my readers over the last few months, and I remain extremely optimistic about the company's ability to gain market share.
As manyothersites have now reported, Disqus rolled out version 2 of their software today, addressing some concerns held by holdouts who believed implementing the engine would hurt their SEO rankings, while also delivering strong platform integration with Wordpress, a new developer API, and a significant reorganization of Disqus.com to deliver immediate access to an individual's comments to track and manage.
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I'm scheduled to speak to an entire room-full of CIO-types of major corporations in Dallas in September about this very subject. My goal is to show them why these technologies are important, and share some technologies they can use to have more control within their own organization.
Shel Holtz has put together a 30-minute video about moving Web 2.0 tools into the enterprise. I've embedded his video below. The video is pretty long but it's worth a watch to get the basics on using tools including blogs, podcasting and social networking within large companies. I tried for years to get a corporation to embrace these tools, it's very hard to get a large company to embrace change. Especially when the corporate culture is locked into large, enterprise-level, long-term contract packages.
Shel misses a few key points:
One of the biggest reasons companies aren't using Web 2.0 tools externally is because legal teams hold installation and execution back due to fear of litigation or revealing private company secrets to the public
Large companies aren't embracing these tools yet because the platforms they have selected aren't setup to handle Web 2.0 tools yet - it's easy to assume (as Shel does)...
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Enterprise 2.0: The search for the perfect Project Management Service.
I will give Goplan a try
UPDATE 11/18: activeCollab is no longer offered as a free project management collaboration download. From the design, development, and product strategy company Webreakstuff comes a ...
Over the last few months, no blogging comments engine has received as much attention, or gained as much perceived blogger momentum as has 
