Yesterday I attended my first BarCamp. Unlike the name suggests, there were no drinks or tents, because according to Wikipedia a BarCamp is “an international network of user-generated conferences . They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants.” There were a number of simultaneous time slots available to speak about various...
As the industry’s largest conference, the Social Networking Conference discusses social networking. The conference will be held on January 23-25, 2012 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, USA. The conference is attended by professionals and senior executives from the social media and social networking market. The convention will cover: enterprise social networking...
At the Online Marketing Summit, the premier global educational event for marketing professionals, in San Diego ( February 6-10, 2012) I will do a 3-hour workshop on Social+Mobile+Local marketing. The Online Marketing Summit (#OMS12) enables over 1500 attendees to collaborate, network and learn how to execute on the best practices in online marketing. What...
If you want to put something on your Fan Page other than what Facebook provides (Like Photos, the Wall, Info etc), you need an App created by a programmer. Not only does the programmer need to code what he wants on the page, he also needs to configure a specific application within Facebook itself,...
I recently came across an excellent video course for LinkedIn by a guy called Lewis Howe. I do not easily recommend someone, but this guy deserves credit. I have followed his advice and I have drastically revised my profile on LinkedIn. When people are searching for profiles using keywords, my profile shows up on...
We’re starting a series of Webinars for Executives, Business Owners and Job Seekers. This group of people is struggling with Social Media. On the one hand they want to stay away from it, because they really have no time for it. But on the other hand they realize that Social Media are here to...
Today BrandReact, Inc. – a Social Media Marketing Company – announces the launch of its Monitoring & Response Tool, “BrandReact Small Business Edition”. Using this impressive cloud-based tool, it is possible to ‘listen’ to what is said about your Brand and React on it. The tool can be used to improve the relationship with...
This book was not written in the normal manner, but it was put together by a group of 16,000 people. These people, who we call Tweople (Twittering People), have composed the book, by voting for the best tweets from @Dubbelzinnig (‘Double Meaning’). The voting was done by ReTweeting the funny quotes with a double...
With the amount of existing and new applications that are being created on Facebook, business owners have an opportunity to use Facebook to promote their brand even further. There have been other social networks and media sites that have had limited success in terms of promotion and creating brand awareness, but on Facebook...
Standardized Restaurant Menu on the Web
I have always been a strong believer in standardization. In fact I have spent many years leading the effort to standardize eBusiness as Chairman of UN/CEFACT, the United Nations body that governs important standards like EDIFACT, ebXML and more. I found it most refreshing to come across a service called OpenMenu, where Restaurants, Bars,...
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