Andrey Golub

 

Oggi e' stata pubblicata una mia intervista sulle pagine del grandioso SOCIALWARE.IT !

Ringrazio moltissimo Claudio Vaccaro per questa occasione di parlare di me stesso finalmente :) (di solito parlo io con altre persone nel mio IDEE-IN)

Keywords: claudio vaccaro, linkedin, milan-in, mobile 2.0, people 2.0, social media, social media marketing, social networking, socialware, socialware.it, spock, web 2.0, andrey golub

Andrey Golub

Mobile Content Platform Market Reaches $3.4 Billion, Up Almost 20% But Short of Expectations

The market for premium mobile content platforms grew almost 20% in 2007, resulting in a $3.4 billion share of the $18.5 billion of revenue generated by the mobile premium content market, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence.  As cellular subscribers worldwide increasingly look for personalization and enhanced entertainment content on their mobile handsets, subscribers are continuing to purchase more premium content, such as ringtones, music, mobile games and video.  Mobile content platform companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Ericsson, Motricity NMS Communications and Qualcomm provide key systems and tools to in-take, catalog, store, and deliver content.
 
Many industries would be thrilled with 20% growth.  While  the mobile content platform and digital commerce services companies find it disappointing, much of the issue is out of their hands.  The ringtone market is softening while other content categories are failing to live-up to expectations.  Additionally, the mobile content platform and digital commerce services companies sit in the mobile content ecosystem stuck between the more powerful operators and content owners.  The operators have tremendous power as they own the subscriber.  The content companies have power as they own the content that individuals want. The revenue distribution among the different industry segments reflects this power imbalance.
 
MultiMedia Intelligence’s new research also found:
 

• Digital commerce services market was not quite as strong as the content platform market. Mobile digital commerce service companies provide the financial systems underlying the commerce transaction process.  The recent MMI research found that the digital commerce segment, comprised of companies like Amdocs, Bango, Comverse and Valista grew at slightly less than 10%.
  

• The transition to an off-deck dominated content market is developing in North America.  However, a stronger transition is stymied as the mobile content discovery and purchase process is still too challenging to consumers.
  

• Questionable and unprofessional market activity by some off-deck providers is drawing the ire of carriers such as Sprint Nextel, which recently enacted strict guidelines and is enforcing them with penalties for content partners. MultiMedia Intelligence sees other carriers following suit, not only in the US but in Europe as well, in hopes of cleaning up rogue off-deck providers. 

• The market will begin to see the emergence of advertising in premium content.  Video will be the dominant driver, yet other content types will see growth as well. 

• Mobile music is still dominated by ringtones; however the growth of the category is muted as the decline of polyphonic ringtones eats away at the gains made by music ringtunes.  Ringtones will remain the dominant music category through out the forecast period, despite strong growth in full track downloads, streaming music and ringback tones.

 
The research, “Mobile Content Platforms: Mobile 2.0 and Advertising Join the Party” covers the software platforms used to deliver & monetize content to mobile handsets. The research contains five-year worldwide forecasts of global market revenue for video, music, gaming and images. The forecast for the emerging category of advertising in premium is included.  The report also presents market share in these areas for mobile operators, content providers and content-enablement companies. The report provides a further breakdown of revenue share for the content-enablement companies by revenue share of music including ringtone, ringtune, ringback, over-the-air full music track download, streaming music revenue by region. The report also contains profiles of major mobile content enablement platform companies and trends and predictions for the industry.
 
Market Forecasts

• Mobile premium content revenue by geography for Mono and Polyphonic Ringtones, Music Ringtones, Music Ringback Tones, Music Full Track Downloads, Music Streaming, Mobile Games, Adult Content, Graphics, Mobile TV, and Mobile Video
• Advertising Revenue in Premium Mobile Video, with segmentation for Agency, Ad Network, Ad Server and Technology, and Content Providers
• Mobile TV Advertising Market Revenue
• On-Deck and Off-Deck content revenue by geography and content types
• Revenue share by content type for Content Providers, Operators, Digital Commerce Services Providers and Platform Companies
• Company profiles of 130 market participants
• Market trends and analysis

Price $3,495.00

About MultiMedia Intelligence
MultiMedia Intelligence provides actionable intelligence on the markets and technologies for delivering IP video to the Nth screen. With a broad "ecosystem-based" perspective that moves beyond the classic 'three screens' of TVs, mobile handsets, and computers, we identify the opportunities in enabling and monetizing digital media on a multi-platform, multi-network basis.

Keywords: MultiMedia Intelligence, digital commerce, digital entertainment, mobile, mobile 2.0, mobile content platforms, Mobile Advertising

Andrey Golub

I was recently asking this question on LinkedIn Q&A:

How to Define KPIs for Corporate IT services?

 

and the Best Answer I selected, was:

I would suggest that your first step would be establish a "service catalogue" which is a list of what services you (the IT dept) provide to the rest of the organization. The key here is to not make this a list of technical components (e.g. mail server, web server), but a description of what the user expects to get.

For example: to a user, email services would be the ability to send and receive email with: a)spam filtering, b)proof of receipt, c)ability to create mailing lists, etc., but NOT the ability to perform mass marketing email campaigns (that would be another service) - the email service will likely include several servers, different software packages, internet connectivity, and more.

Once the service is well defined from the point of view of customer expectations and IT restrictions (e.g. no email campaigns) it would very important to get get the agreement and buy-in on these definitions from the rest of the organization. I would recommend a series of one on one discussions with each senior executive, followed by a group meeting that you could call the IT Steering Group or Committee, where they would all see each other agreeing to what they already agreed to in private.

If there is resistance to forming a steering group, try the argument that they already spend hours every week dealing with IT issues and that spending one hour in this meeting to get organized will cut down on the time spent firefighting.

The reason why the one on one meeting are very important is because your senior execs will have lots of questions/debate. If you get into it with all of them around the table your meeting will go out of control, and you will not achieve agreement to full service catalogue in the time you have allocated - this will make you look bad and disorganized.

You need to be able to argue your case, and where necessary to capitulate and make a change to service definition, as well as identify which executive disagree on fundamental points. Where this happens, you bring two alternatives to the Steering Group, and ask for decision.

You also ask the steering group to assign a rank of importance to each service. You do this by handing out a questionnaire where each service is listed, and they have a "budget" of $100. They must allocate their $100 budget amongst the different services. This will help you all year long but especially at the end of the fiscal year during budgeting.

Then you write SLA's.

I recommend that your SLAs be composed of 5 points:

-Service description (from the service catalogue)

-Availability (how much of the time the users expect to be able to use the service. 24/7? 24/7 with 5 hour maintenance on Sunday? The last 5 business days before month end?

-Remediation time (when the service becomes unavailable, what is an acceptable time to restore it? 1 day? 1 hour?

-Measurement (how will availability be measured? Server uptime? pings from external location? manual login every 4 hours?

-Reporting (how will IT report on all of the above? daily, weekly? include sample reports)

Once this is done, you will have very concrete measurements of you performance.

If you want to go further, investigate ITIL, create a configuration database and a change management process (see ITIL). I also highly recommend the McKinley Airport Simulation exercise from the Microsoft Operating Framework training as an introduction to why ITIL is important, and how it can help.

Adam Wasserman

 THANK YOU ADAM!

P.S. the other also good answers are all available here 

Keywords: IT, IT Service, KPI, LinkedIn, Corporate

Andrey Golub

Congratulations Mr. Golub

- you have been included in "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century"!

The Oxford English Dictionary defines intellectualism as the "doctrine that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from pure reason" and it follows by saying that an intellectual is a "person possessing a good understanding, enlightened person".

Today I open the mail received from:

International Biographical Centre
St Thomas' Place
ElyCambridgeshire
CB7 4GG
UK

about IBC 

and see this-

The first page from the mail is ON THIS PICTURE. And so if you buy the newest version of the book as below (5th Edition - Available Summer 2008), I believe you'll find my name inside!

P.S. and my friends know there is another not less important place where my name could be already found- Who's Who in the Word 2008. if it's useful...? ;)

Keywords: Andrey Golub, IBC, International Biographical Centre, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century

Andrey Golub

How could it happen?

I write this article for my Blog. this night at 1:40 a.m. I publish it. Now it's 11:40 a.m. and my article already comes #1 after the original web site on Google.

crazy SEO micarles? :) 

Keywords: google, SEO

Andrey Golub

"Meetings with remarkable individuals" is a cycle of workshops and seminars due to start in Rome in October 2008, with the aim to inspire and guide the next generation of young leaders and entrepreneurs in Italy.

If interested- join this group on Facebook:

Meetings with remarkable individuals

or contact Francesca De Palo directly.

Project Objective Description:

Seeking outstanding, top honours CEO, Entrepreneurs, Netpreneurs, pioneers and new trend setters..... willing to share their knowledge in the following fields:

- Drivers of globalization and impact on industries and organizational structures
- Time to go green: Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility and Corporate image
- New trends in Operations and Quality Management
- New trends in the distribution industry
- Creating New Ventures and the Business Plan: tools to build Competitive Advantage
- Advanced customer relationship strategies
- New tools to capture cultural value
- Cities are back: the concept of city management
- Outsourcing, off-shoring and next generations of employees
- The Entrepreneurial mindset
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Keywords: Francesca De Palo, Italy, Meetings with remarkable individuals

Andrey Golub

Your personal information is online and getting more accessible every day. So how can you manage your online reputation and privacy in this cyber world where walls don’t exist?

Here are five ways in which Internet users can ensure that their online identity is correctly positioned and that their personal information is protected:

1. Take Responsibility for Your Online Actions
2. Track Your Online Profile
3. What Do You Do When Your Personal Information is Out There
4. Be Wary of Uncertified Websites
5. Even Passwords Need to be Protected

Interested? Reard this article in the Spock Blog:

Spock’s Tips for Online Identity Protection

Keywords: Online Identity, online reputation, spock, web 2.0, Personal Privacy

Andrey Golub

Sean Carlos in his Blog for Antezeta SEO Company, has published today this great article in two languages btw-

Astra2Connect and Tooway close the Internet digital divide with satellite to home service, maybe

http://www.antezeta.com/blog/astra2connect-tooway 

and

Astra2Connect e Tooway superano il divario digitale Internet con un servizio via satellite a casa. Forse…

http://www.antezeta.it/blog/astra2connect-tooway 

where  at the end he asks a question from the readers-

• ITA- Altre alternative alla DSL per avere la banda larga: Qual è la tua esperienza circa le alternative alle DSL per l’Internet?

OR

• EN- Other DSL Broadband Alternatives: What’s your experience with DSL Internet alternatives?

Bravo Sean!

• my comment (e commento) was about MOBI, the first wifi router / SIP mobile broadband solution (54Mbps data rates) available in the Italian market from Italia Mobile Srl (Alessandro Morelli's project).

Keywords: Alessandro Morelli, Astra2Connect, DSL, Italia Mobile, Italy, Mobi, Sean Carlos, Tooway, banda larga, broadband, digital divide, Antezeta

Andrey Golub

Keywords: Business club, Francesco Morittu, Sardegna, Cagliari

Andrey Golub

Uffa, tra poco Italia all'avanguardia per tutta la UE? :)

• Creato l’elenco degli istituti di ricerca pubblici e privati. Ecco i requisiti per le iscrizioni
• Dopo mesi di attesa è stato finalmente istituito l’elenco nel quale  dovranno iscriversi tutti gli istituti di ricerca che vogliono farli arrivare in Italia  senza passare per le pastoie delle quote d’ingresso. 

leggi questo articolo

Ricercatori stranieri: si sbloccano gli ingressi veloci

P.S. cosi' sono entrato anch'io in Italia, come Ricercatore all'IRST/ ICT. 

Keywords: Italia, lavoro in Italia, ricerca scentifica, immigrazione

Andrey Golub

I know, nothing in this world could be perfect... Even mashable.com :), the #1 Blog about Social Networking/ Web 2.0. I am the great fan of mashable and also Pete's contact "everywhere" on web 2.0 :), but this time I had to disagree with mashable and doubt the quality of the research behind one of their articles, this one-

BeeMood: A Blatant Twitter Clone for Italy

http://mashable.com/2008/01/03/beemood/ by Adam Ostrow

I left there a comment although it wasn't easy to express my point of view in a few chars (since mashable doesn't support middle/long comments). So here I'll publish what I was going to say, the full post which it cut on the web:

Dear Adam,

Hello from another mashable fan and follower, and Social Technology so-called evangelist :). We cross time to time- I follow actively Spock people search engine 2.0 as community evangelist for Italy, and Italian LinkedIn supporter Club as VP and Web 2.0 Manager.

God wanted so I now work for the company that owns BeeMood brand and develops its future services (Zero9 Spa., http://www.zero9group.com/). Trust me this doesn't affect my clear mind in judging BeeMood :) Plus here I could meet the people behind this idea/ product/ service.

so my quick comments would be:

1) Let's please not mix MicroBlogging and Twitter.com.

Twitter isn't equal to MicroBlogging. Twitter is A PRODUCT implementing MicroBlogging. Microblogging in general is a Web 2.0 idea for a service that could be implemented in one or another way, and twitter.com has just become very popular/ famous and we're all happy about it and use it every day! :)

btw, Do you know another way for implementing microblogging to not "be similar in some way to twitter.com"? let us know if it's so! :)

2) BeeMood was launched by a Mobile 2.0 company, so it was built with Mobile/ Mobile 2.0 ideas in mind.

BeeMood's mobile vision is not the same as the mobile- connection of Twitter which is just to send some updates via SMS. Instead, Beemood it was designed to be oriented on Mobile Users.

Product roadmap for BeeMood includes tons of interesting features that have nothing to deal anymore with twitter.com's base services (implemented very well, but it's very basic!), but to fully implement Mobile MicroBlogging and Mobile Sharing.

3) as you mention in your article, BeeMood integrates also twitter's updates inside and some other 2.0 things (via RSS). So it's an Integrated Mobile MicroBlogging 2.0 service, and we know integrating always mean "something more that what's integrated inside", right?

4) next, BeeMood is not just "targeting Italy" as you write. It was developed and launched in Italy, since the headquarters of Zero9 are in Milan. But take a look at the location map for Zero9 worldwide and it will become clearer I believe.

• So, I am sorry Adam with all respect to mashable.com, I can't stand the statement as "just about as straight-up a Twitter clone" in the very first row of your review!

And you may also find BeeMood Blog useful to understand better this product. it's in English btw :) http://blog.beemood.com/.

P.S. feel free contacting me or David Casalini BeeMood manager for any questions you may have!

Keywords: Twitter, beemood, mashable, mashable.com, microblogging, mobile 2.0, mobile web, social networking, social networking, web 2.0, zero9, Adam Ostrow

Andrey Golub

The Global Voice of Mobile Entertainment

CEOs with total revenues of over $12bn will speak at MeM 2008

It's time to return to the most significant event in mobile entertainment taking place 8 & 9 May in Cannes and hear from an unprecedented line up of industry CEOs in Cannes. With total revenues of over $12bn, these CEOs will address the core issue at MeM: Building profitable fast growing businesses from mobile entertainment and the mobile internet.

Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango, a mobile web technology company with revenues of £10.4 million. The Bango platform has 27 million unique users accessing content on the mobile web.

Marco Argenti, Dada.net Managing Director, said : "Dada reported a profitable business model for its pure 'internet on web and mobile' service that reaches customers from across 40 countries with 12 mn users, of which 7mn are paying subscribers"

Mark Curtis, CEO, Flirtomatic – Users are spending over $2 a month on premium services

Andrew Bud, Executive Chairman, mBlox - mBlox processed 2 billion transactions and grew 40% in 2007

Gianluca d'Agostino, CEO, Neomobile achieved over 80% growth in 2006-2007 with revenues expected to meet 40 million€ in 2008

Tony Pearce, CEO, Player X - Player X has achieved 100% growth year-on-year since the company's formation

Ujjal Kohli, CEO, Rhythm New Media has stated that its service with 3-UK has been used by over 25% of their 4.1 million customers.

Andrew Fisher, CEO, Shazam - Over the past 12 months Shazam has seen over 500% growth in its services and expanded to 25 new countries

Are Traasdahl, CEO and Founder of Thumbplay, the number 1 off-deck mobile entertainment destination in the U.S, with annual revenue growth in excess of 300%

Javier Perez Dolset, President & CEO, Zed with a turnover of over half a billion dollars in 2007

MeM 2008 also brings you the leading CEOs of mobile entertainment from around the world:
- Antonio Vince Stabyl, CEO, itsmy.com
- Evgeny Kosolapov, CEO, United Fun Traders
- Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama
- Paul Myers, CEO, Acme Mobile
- Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone
- Nick Desai, CEO, Juice Wireless

Book now for MeM 08 and view the full agenda here
MeM is the mobile entertainment industry's official annual event - the only mobile event dedicated to mobile entertainment developed by the industry for the industry. With a new interactive format, a fresh line up of keynotes and speakers, MeM is the established hub for the mobile and media communities.

Make the Most of Your MeM experience and celebrate with the Industry's crème-de-la crème at the MEFFYS Gala Ceremony! Check the MEF website to see who made it onto the shortlist from the 200 entries. The winners will be announced at the Gala Ceremony in Cannes.

As the industry's official benchmark for measuring success and rewarding innovation, the MEFFYS honour the most influential players from around the world. Now in their 5th year, in association with Nokia for the second year running, the Meffys will take place 8 May, InterContinental Carlton, Cannes (co-located with MeM). Reserve your seat for the Meffys Gala Dinner by email or by calling 020 7017 5811

Keywords: Andrew Bud, Andrew Fisher, Antonio Vince Stabyl, Are Traasdahl, Bango, Dada.net, Evgeny Kosolapov, Flirtomatic, Gianluca d'Agostino, Hungama, InterContinental Carlton, Javier Perez Dolset, Juice Wireless, MEFFYS, Marco Argenti, Mark Curtis, MeM, Mobile Entertainment, Neeraj Roy, Neomobile, Nick Desai, Omnifone, Paul Myers, Player X, Ray Anderson, Rhythm New Media, Rob Lewis, Shazam, Thumbplay, Tony Pearce, Ujjal Kohli, United Fun Traders, Zed, itsmy, mBlox, mobile internet, Acme Mobile

Andrey Golub

Keywords: events planning, iZoca, off-line networking, on-line networking, social networking, collaborative project management

Andrey Golub

Sara Rosso, the Girl Geek Dinners Italia #1 activist, has updated today the Girl Geek Dinners Italia Facebook Group members with such a cool communication message:

Dopo il silenzio preparatorio, dopo gli avvistamenti di magliette GGD in Riviera e dopo i ponti di Aprile e Maggio, ecco la notizia che vi cambierà l’agenda del prossimo mese, l’unica informazione a voi cara: l’apertura delle iscrizioni per la prossima Girl Geek Dinner milanese!

• Giovedì 8 Maggio 2008 apriranno le iscrizioni per le girls.

• Lunedì 12 Maggio 2008 apriranno le iscrizioni per i guys invitati da una girl confermata.

In tutti e due i casi i posti sono limitati, perciò chi si iscrive prima avrà più possibilità di poter partecipare alla serata.

Nei prossimi giorni informazioni sulla location, gli sponsors, speaker e quant’altro vi allieterà durante la serata.

Seguite il blog per tutti dettagli!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GirlGeekDinnersItalia
http://www.girlgeekdinnersitalia.com/

 

Keywords: Girl Geek Dinners Italia, Sara Rosso, girlgeekdinnersitalia3, girlgeekdinnersitalia

Andrey Golub

TWITTER ITALY

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12428909303 

Segui questo gruppo se:
- vivi, pensi di muoverti e/o semplicemente ami l'Italia e gli Italiani ;-D
- usi Twitter e vuoi entrare in contatto con altri Italiani/residenti in Italia che usano sia Twitter che Facebook
- non hai la benchè minima idea di cosa sia Twitter e sei curioso/a di saperne di più

dopo di che seguimi su twitter http://twitter.com/fdprome

Join this facebook group if:
- you live, plan to move or simply love Italy and Italians ;-D
- you are a Twitter user/addict and want to network with Italian friends/people living in Italy who are both Twitter and Facebook users
- you don't know anything about Twitter, but you are keen to learn more!

Keywords: microblogging, twitter, italy

Andrey Golub

19 Maggio 2008 - Presentazione dei risultati Osservatorio ICT Accessibile e Disabilità

Evento conclusivo dell'Osservatorio promosso dalla Fondazione ASPHI Onlus, dall’ICT Institute e dalla School of Management del Politecnico di Milano

" ICT Accessibile e Disabilità:

una fotografia della situazione in Italia"

che si terrà

Lunedì 19 Maggio 2008

L’Osservatorio nasce con la missione di sensibilizzare le imprese, i technology/solution provider e la “comunità” in senso lato (Istituzioni, Pubblica Amministrazione, ecc.) sui temi dell’accessibilità delle applicazioni ICT alle persone con disabilità, per evitare – o almeno ridurre – i rischi di un “digital divide”.

Durante il Convegno saranno presentati i risultati della Ricerca che per la prima volta in Italia prova a scattare una fotografia dello stato dell’accessibilità alle applicazioni ICT nelle imprese italiane. La Ricerca si fonda su una notevole base empirica: survey e casi studio condotti su un campione di oltre 160 fra Direttori Sistemi Informativi e Direttori Risorse Umane di imprese particolarmente significative per dimensioni e ruolo nell’economia italiana; survey su un campione statisticamente significativo di 1000 PMI italiane; analisi di accessibilità di alcuni dei più importanti siti di eCommerce e dei servizi di Mobile Content delle principali Telco italiane.

Alla presentazione dei risultati della Ricerca seguirà una tavola rotonda alla quale parteciperanno alcuni dei principali operatori del mondo Telco e IT.

Nella sessione pomeridiana verranno approfondite alcune tematiche di particolare significatività relative all’accessibilità ICT.

Il Convegno si terrà lunedì 19 maggio 2008, dalle ore 09.30 alle ore 16.15, presso l'Aula Rogers del Politecnico di Milano, Via Ampére 2, Milano.

Al termine del Convegno verrà distribuito ai partecipanti il Rapporto contenente i risultati principali della Ricerca.

L’Osservatorio è patrocinato da Assinform e supportato da 3 Italia, IBM, Microsoft, Telecom Italia, Vodafone e Wind.

 

La partecipazione è gratuita, previa iscrizione cliccando qui.

 

Programma

9.00    Registrazione

 

9.30    Introducono e presiedono

Umberto Bertelè, Presidente School of Management Politecnico di Milano

Andrea Lacaita, Presidente ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

 

 

10.00  ICT Accessibile e Disabilità: un percorso necessario

Carlo Gulminelli, Fondazione Asphi Onlus

 

 

10.20  I risultati della Ricerca

Paolo Paolini, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

Andrea Rangone, School of Management Politecnico di Milano

 

 

11.45  Tavola rotonda: il ruolo degli operatori ICT

 

Modera

Maurizio Decina, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

 

Partecipano

3 Italia, Assinform, IBM Italia, Microsoft Italia, Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Wind

 

13.00  Chiusura della sessione mattutina

 

14.00  Inizio sessione pomeridiana

          

           Introduce e presiede

Andrea Lacaita, Presidente ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

 

14.15  Nuove opportunità ICT per la disabilità

               Cesare Colombo, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

 

14.45      ICT e autonomia: supporti informatici per la residenzialità di persone con disabilità cognitive

                Piero Fraternali, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

 

15.15   Accessibilità oltre le linee guida del W3C

                 Paolo Paolini, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano

 

15.45   Mobile Wireless Accessibility (MWA) per la disabilità visiva

                IBM Italia

 

16.15   Chiusura dei lavori

Keywords: , 3 Italia, ASPHI Onlus, Andrea Lacaita, Carlo Gulminelli, Direttore Risorse Umane, Direttore Sistemi Informativi, IBM, Maurizio Decina, Microsoft, Mobile Content, Paolo Paolini, Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Telco, Telecom Italia, Umberto Bertelè, Vodafone, Wind, digital divide, eCommerce, Osservatorio ICT

Andrey Golub

Università dell'Insubria Aula Magna - Via Ravasi, 2 Varese (Italia)

L'Enterprise 2.0 sbarca in Italia

il Forum internazionale, 25 Giugno 2008- VARESE

Anche nel nostro paese l’Enterprise 2.0 sta diventando una leva fondamentale nella risposta ad esigenze profonde di rilancio della competitività, della messa a sistema dei network industriali, dell'incremento di velocità e reattività sui mercati internazionali, di umanizzazione delle organizzazioni.

L’Università dell’Insubria e OpenKnowledge propongono al management italiano un evento internazionale come occasione di confronto e di riflessione sui fenomeni più recenti e rivoluzionari del web mondiale. Un momento – del tutto gratuito – per entrare in contatto con i maggiori leader di innovazione organizzativa, per confrontarsi con casi di eccellenza dall’Italia e dall’estero, per creare network con colleghi e persone impegnate nello stesso ambito di lavoro.

Il Forum si caratterizza per:

• Una riflessione a 360° sugli impatti organizzativi e di business che l'Enterprise 2.0 introduce

• Un’esplorazione completa dei diversi ambiti di intervento dell’Enterprise 2.0: tagging, blog, wiki, feed rss, open innovation, widget

• Un taglio operativo focalizzato su casi applicativi e metodologie/strumenti collaudati sul campo

• L’ingaggio di speaker di primaria importanza a livello internazionale nei rispettivi ambiti di azione

Perché partecipare

Per gli Imprenditori ed il Top Management

• Per poter anticipare e guidare l'evoluzione delle proprie organizzazioni tramite modelli partecipativi e bottom-up

• Per vedere il perché e il come di innovazioni profonde che aumentano la creatività, l’efficienza e la qualità

• Per capire e capitalizzare i cambiamenti sui modelli di business introdotti dal web 2.0

Per le Direzioni Personale

• Per migliorare la gestione dei saperi, delle persone e dei network sociali all’interno delle organizzazioni

• Per ampliare i processi di formazione formale tramite contenuti generati dai partecipanti e modalità informali

• Per conoscere e comprendere i nuovi scenari dello sviluppo organizzativo

Per le Direzioni Commerciali e Marketing

• Per entrare in contatto con esperienze ed esperti internazionali che hanno introdotto modalità nuove di dialogo con i mercati

• Per portare il cliente all’interno dei processi di innovazione come partner e motore di rinnovamento

• Per trasformarsi in organizzazioni porose e capaci di coinvolgere i clienti come canali di marketing gratuiti e trasparenti

fonte: http://enterprise2forum.it/

Keywords: Collaborazione, Enterprise 2.0, OpenKnowledge, enterprise2forum, partecipazione, web 2.0, Emanuele Quintarelli

Andrey Golub

Incumbents would offer a VoIP client that will work on incumbent broadband and 3G wireless pipes, using a backend to allow people to make free phone calls to anyone logged into it, similar to AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google.

Calls from client-to-client would be free, and the backend platform would keep “calls” (data streams) from the participating carriers free. Termination charges would be avoiding, but each carrier could still make money when calls S****-Out to a rival’s phone or wireless network. A common platform and client means everyone gains in lower support costs and simplicity, rather than having 15 different standards

Maybe another way to think of this is this would be the VSTN (VoIP standard telephone network) to the PSTN.

Anyway, the crystal ball says Skype-Killer will be launched in 2009, run on broadband connections and on top of 3G/4G wireless connections (which are, after all, broadband), extended to other mobile phones eventually, and be used as a hook to sell other services such as video.

Why are telcos prepared to eat their own young, so to speak? Voice is a losing proposition and they continue to lose fixed-line customers at a rapid clip. Providing VSTN gives them a way to retain customers, rather than letting them skip off to cable, an independent VoIP service, or a rival’s wireless service.

- Read the GigaOm post on the:

Telecom Skype Killer

http://gigaom.com/2008/05/06/global-telcos-plotting-a-skype-rival/ 

 

Here are some key points about this yet-unnamed proposed Skype killer:

• To be launched in 2009.
• The concept will be extended to mobile phones eventually.
• The service would run on the carrier broadband connection, and also on top of the 3G/4G wireless broadband pipe.
• The service will be used as a lure for selling other services such as video.
• The incumbent consortium partners can brand this service any way they want.

Keywords: , 3G, AIM, Google, MSN, Skype-Killer, Telco, VSTN, VoIOP, Yahoo, broadband, skype

Andrey Golub

More than 4 million U.S. wireless subscribers--1.6 percent of the total U.S. mobile consumer population--now access social networks via mobile device, according to a new study released by media research firm The Nielsen Company.

Nielsen finds the U.K. leads Europe in mobile social networking percentage, with 1.7 percent of British mobile subscribers (roughly 810,000 of all subs) visiting social communities during the first quarter of 2008. By comparison, only 0.8 percent of Spanish wireless subs (291,000 consumers) access social networks via the mobile web, followed by Italy at 0.6 percent (293,000 subscribers), France at 0.6 percent (255,000 subs) and Germany at just 0.2 percent (141,000 subs).

Full study analysis-

Social Networking Going Mobile, Nielsen Finds

Keywords: , Mobile 2.0, Social Networking, Nielsen

Andrey Golub

“Questo film non s’ha da fare” ma Jack La Mosca non ci sta.

Nicola scrive “JACKFLY LA RIBELLIONE”, un thriller finanziario molto avvincente dalla trama che scotta. Dato il successo del libro, quando l’autore decide di trarne un film, le più importanti case di distribuzione cinematografica italiane se lo contendono e tanti attori e registi si dimostrano molto interessati.

Che il film si giri allora! Invece no, perché poco dopo case di distribuzione e produzione, attori e registi spariscono nel nulla o si defilano elegantemente. Perché? Un amico di Nicola gli riferisce che qualcuno ai “piani alti” non gradirebbe che la pellicola fosse girata. Chi si cela dietro a questo complotto contro Nicola e contro il suo film?

Già questa sembra  la trama di un film. Invece è la realtà.

L’autore è Nicola Scambia, il quale lavora da oltre 16 anni in qualità di manager e promotore finanziario e, quindi, frequenta l’ambiente bancario da anni, decide di scrivere un romanzo che racconta proprio questo mondo.

Un mondo che Nicola conosce bene, talmente bene che, forse, descrivendolo con la fantasia, ci ha realmente preso. La storia racconta di un operatore finanziario milanese che viene “scaricato” dalla sua banca e, invece di piegare il capo come tutti, si ribella e si mette in gioco. Attorno a lui terra bruciata, viene perfino picchiato. Il protagonista, però, non si lascia intimidire e porta allo scoperto il marcio che si nasconde dietro alla banca: dirigenti e avvocati che fanno i propri interessi contro quelli dei clienti, malversazioni, cocaina e conti all’estero.

Questa la reale trama. Nicola Scambia nel 2007 fonda una casa di produzione cinematografica quindi a settembre 2008 si gira.

La storia sarà raccontata anche attraverso il linguaggio cinematografico, contrariamente a quanto “qualcuno ai piani alti” si augura.

Sta anche a noi sostenere Nicola nel suo progetto, dimostrando che non tutti si lasciano intimidire dallo strapotere di pochi. Potremo farlo lunedì 12 maggio alle 21 al Pacino Cafè, quando l’autore dello spinoso financial thriller ci racconterà di sé, del suo romanzo che vuole diventare film, ma soprattutto ci svelerà quanto di vero si cela tra le righe di “JACKFLY LA RIBELLIONE”. 

 

Keywords: Nicola Scambia, PTS, Presenta te stesso, JACKFLY

Andrey Golub

Women on boards –Moving mountains

21 maggio 2008
alle 19.00
Centro Svizzero
Via Palestro 2
Milano

A unique opportunity to analyse key findings on women on boards in Europe and discuss with Italian board women on next developments.

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Programme

h.19-20 Registration and Cocktail
h.20-20.30 Presentation of the book by Annalisa Gigante
h. 20.30-21.30 Discussion panel with Rosanna D’Antona, Maria Pierdicchi, Stefania Celsi
h. 21.30-22 Q&A
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The event is open to women and men guests!

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Registration
Participation is free and open until the event is fully booked. Registration is required
Members and Guests: please register your attendance in the event section of EuropeanPWN, www.europeanpwn.net
For additional information, please contact speakers@pwa-milan.org or visit www.pwa-milan.org

via  Axelle Brown-Videau

Keywords: Axelle Brown-Videau, Italy, Milan, Women on boards

Andrey Golub

A VOIP Service Provider over Jingle/XMPP in Italy?

http://www.jabberout.com/ Open Your Voice!

Recentemente si è accesso uno crescente interesse per il protocollo Xmpp come standard per piattaforme decentralizzate di social networking o meglio ancora computing. 

JabberOut e' start-up italiana che si propone di diventare il primo VOIP Service Provider basato sul protocollo aperto Jingle/XMPP, utilizzato da oltre 40 milioni di utenti e de facto il protocollo standard per l’Istant Messaging e la presence, garantendo la massima interoperabilità con i sistemi esistenti e future evoluzioni.

Ho conosciuto Stefano Grini, founder, owner, CFO and CEO di JabberOut.
 

Keywords: Jingle, Stefano Grini, VOIP Service Provider, VoIP, XMPP, JabberOut

Andrey Golub

via Giovanni Pola

4 giorni di convegni specializzati sulla comunicazione e la crossmedialità: dal 13 al 16 maggio 2008 FieraMilanoCity.

• Media 2.0 www.media2expo.com
• EBA Forum www.ebaforum.it
• Netcomm E-commerce Forum www.consorzionetcomm.it
• TVDigitali08 www.tvdigitali.com
• E-mail Power 2008  www.emailpower.it
• Proximity Forum 2008  www.proximityforum.eu 

La partecipazione a tutti gli eventi sopracitati è gratuita previa iscrizione su i rispettivi siti web.
 
Nello specifico Connexia vi invita a seguire gli interventi all'interno delle seguenti sessioni:

• 14 MAGGIO ore 9,50 - EBA Forum (14-15 maggio) - Giovanni Pola, Direttore Marketing e Vendite di Connexia terrà l'intervento di apertura dei lavori dal titolo: "Aziende e consumatori: la multicanalità paga. Ricerche di mercato, trend e scenari evolutivi della comunicazione 2.0".
  

• 14 MAGGIO ore 14,00 -17,30 - MEDIA 2.0 (13-16 maggio) - sessione "MARKETING RESEARCH & BUSINESS MODELS" all'interno dello spazio dedicato all'Osservatorio Multicanalità Giovanni Pola, Direttore Marketing e Vendite di Connexia terrà l'intervento dal titolo: "L'impatto della multicanalità nelle strategie delle media agengy" 

• 15 MAGGIO ore 11,30 - EBA Forum (14-15 maggio) - alla tavola rotonda "Il Marketing sportivo e i suoi protagonisti" interverrà Paolo d'Ammassa, Amministratore Delegato di Connexia

• 15 MAGGIO - ore 9,30 - MEDIA 2.0 (13-16 maggio) - sessione "OLTRE IL WEB 2.0 IL MERCATO DEI CONTENUTI PARTECIPATI E PARTECIPATIVI" Massimo Cortinovis, Presidente di Connexia terrà l'intervento dal titolo: "BLUEMAPIA.COM - GeoCommunity 2.0 - TAGS: geo, gps, web 2.0, social network, media sharing"

Per maggiori informazioni sugli eventi e gli altri appuntamenti vi rimandiamo ai seguenti link1  e link2

Keywords: BLUEMAPIA.COM, E-mail Power 2008, EBA Forum, GeoCommunity 2.0, Giovanni Pola, Massimo Cortinovis, Media 2.0, Netcomm E-commerce Forum, Paolo d'Ammassa, Proximity Forum 2008, TVDigitali08, WEB 2.0, comunicazione 2.0, geo, gps, media sharing, social network, web 2.0, Connexia

Andrey Golub

Forrester research

Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Keywords: Social Computing, Forrester

Andrey Golub

via http://blog.yooplus.com

 

 Il 14 maggio esce “Noi è Meglio” (titolo originale ” We are smarter than me” ) per ETAS, libro di cui Leonardo Bellini ha curato l’edizione italiana.

 

• "This book is a breakthrough in real community, contribution and collaboration..."
  ~Myles Bristowe
  President, American Marketing Association

Mi chiedete  cosa c'entra YooPlus? :) alle fine dell' articolo troverete tutto: http://blog.yooplus.com/it/?p=128 

Keywords: We are smarter than me, yooplus, Leonardo Bellini

Andrey Golub

FONDAZIONE aiutare i bambini ONLUS

“aiutare i bambini” è un’organizzazione laica ed indipendente. La missione della Fondazione è “aiutare e sostenere i bambini poveri, ammalati, senza istruzione o che hanno subito violenze fisiche o morali per dare loro l’opportunità e la speranza di una vita degna di una persona”.

La vision a lungo termine di “aiutare i bambini” è quella di un mondo in cui:

i bambini poveri ed affamati abbiano il necessario per vivere e quelli ammalati ricevano adeguate cure mediche; i bambini privi di istruzione scolastica abbiano la possibilità di andare a scuola; i bambini che hanno subito violenza vengano aiutati a superare il male che è stato fatto loro; i bambini che non hanno più una famiglia possano essere accolti in una nuova famiglia o in una comunità.

 

Oltre le parole, tanti fatti!

ADOTTA UN BAMBINO A DISTANZA! Proverai una grande gioia.

I bambini contano. Anche su di te

 

Sostieni 5 asili-nido in Italia con il 5 per mille delle tue tasse

 

HELPSTYLE: la collezione che aiuta concretamente i bambini

 “aiutare i bambini” è una ONLUS (Organizzazione non Lucrativa di Utilità Sociale) regolarmente riconosciuta dallo Stato Italiano (registrata in data 4/07/2001 al n. 40 del Registro delle persone giuridiche della Prefettura di Milano).

http://www.aiutareibambini.com/ 

Keywords: Fondazione, ONLUS, Aiutare i Bambini

Andrey Golub

I've joined Xoost, the new web 2.0 service-

"a new way of searching the web"

and their welcome message is 

If you enjoy Web Searching + Social Networking let me call you friend!

With Xoost you will web search what you like, you will instantly connect with other Xoosters who are searching the same thing and you will contribute to the search relevance optimization for everybody.

Just start for example by adding your profile and picture |Edit Profile|, by searching something of your interest |Xoost Search| and connecting with other Xoosters who are searching the same thing, or by browsing |Xoosters| profiles.

Please, use the above |beta feedback| link for your bugs report, questions, comments or feel free to message me directly and I will write you back.

Thank you for joining the Xoost project! 

IF YOU NEED AN INVITE- let me know :) 

Keywords: Social Networking, search 2.0, web 2.0, web 2.0+, web search, xoost, Web Searching

Andrey Golub

Keywords: Italian Network, Italien, Italy, Xing, business, business networking, connect, connecting, contacts, contatti, people, relations, relazioni, social networking, Italia

Andrey Golub

Cagliari Business Club, CagliariIn

• Inizia l'attività del Cagliari Business Club-CagliariIn con l'auto-presentazione del "primo Socio", anzi della "prima Socia", del Club: Roberta Atzori, giovane imprenditrice nel settore della comunicazione integrata, presente se stessa e la sua attività. Non mancate. Il prossimo potresti essere Tu: prendi contatto con il gruppo e prenota la Tua presentazione....

Presenta Te Stesso

Date:	Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time:	7:45pm - 9:45pm
Location:	Hotel Mediterraneo (American Bar)
Street:	Viale Diaz
City/Town:	Cagliari, Italy

to confirm participation-

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=20141510217 

contact/ organizer-

Keywords: CagliariIn, Francesco Morittu, Roberta Atzori, Cagliari Business Club

Andrey Golub

Received via e-mail from J. Gerry Purdy, VP & Chief Analyst of Frost & Sullivan.