More on CRM meets Web 2.0: Salesforce.com and Facebook
By Ian Hendry at 4 November, 2008, 12:28 am
Just a few week after LinkedIn announced an investment from SAP, Facebook and Salesforce.com buddy up.
If you don’t follow Salesforce.com, it’s their Dreamforce expo this week, where users and developers of the on-demand, cloud dominator wannabe all meet up and talk about how great their choice was. And Salesforce.com reveals some stuff that no one [...]
Social media a valid route to new customers, say UK SMBs
By Ian Hendry at 23 October, 2008, 2:48 pm
WeCanDo.BIZ Business Networking Trends Survey reveals 92% would recommend their contacts network online.
The results of our recent survey on business networking trends reveals UK-based small business are avid supporters of online networking through sites such as BusinessZone.co.uk, UK Business Forums and WeCanDo.BIZ, although some of the best known business-focused social networks aren’t doing enough to [...]
XING proves the social networking party is far from over
By Ian Hendry at 16 October, 2008, 4:08 pm
Amongst all the negative news on the collapse of Web 2.0, the first social network to go public doubles its revenues.
OK, so there is a large number of so-called Web 2.0 companies out there that amount to not much then a kind of neat idea, but certainly not a business. And the turmoil in the [...]
LinkedOut - when business networks don’t let you network
By Ian Hendry at 13 October, 2008, 12:06 pm
When I logged into LinkedIn today I found I have been punished for trying to network with new people I don’t know.
Well, I say new people I don’t know. I don’t believe I have been using LinkedIn for what I would describe as the basis of business networking. Rather, I have used it for several [...]
Why most business focused social networks are missing their own market
By Ian Hendry at 7 October, 2008, 10:48 am
LinkedIn, Xing and now IBM’s Bluehouse are hot news. But are they providing any of the services which draw business professionals to network in the first place?
When putting together a business plan for WeCanDo.BIZ I was inspired by a survey on the BNI website — BNI is the Worl’d largest business networking organisation with over [...]