• Social Networking: the facebook mashup effect

    I’m a recent facebook user. I knew about facebook for quite a while but I thought, as probably most of you, that it was a youngster phenomena. I’m no longer a youngster if anyone in doubt out there 😉 . This comes as no surprise as Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard Read more

  • Blogging future: leverage the long tail opportunity

    I’ve been spending an interesting afternoon at Apple Expo in Paris yesterday with my dear friend Christophe Ginisty. Beside being Apple’s PR, he’s also renowned for his blogging activity. He organized a debate about blogging future. Asking candid, or was it, questions about whether blogging is just a fading trend or a ramping up attitude. Read more

  • 2007 major Marketing 2.0 trends

    We’re entering our last quarter of the year and we should be stepping back, before the final rush for ’07 revenue, to analyze this amazing year and its trends. Marketing, Business and the Web — Web 2.0 flavored of course — have never been more inter-weaved. This is why I called this Marketing 2.0 trends.Let Read more

  • Customer equity to drive your marketing ROI

    During my Lotus years, I’ve been given the opportunity to meet Mike Zisman our CEO at the time. One of his statement stayed with me since then: “The purpose of any enterprise is to acquire new customers and retain existing ones. Product an services are only a means to that end.” It sounded a bit Read more

  • Enterprise 2.0 is here to stay

    Fellow marketers, I’ve been away for quite some time, focusing on some quality time without a computer (can you believe that?). I’m back, energized and ready to roll! I wanted to open it up to a new topic, here on Marketing 2.0, that is keeping my team busy for quite some time now: Enterprise 2.0. Read more

  • User-generated content spans interest across generations

    User-generated content and other web 2.0 trends, one would think, are mostly driven by teenagers and young adults. On the contrary. Here is an interesting research lead by Harrison Group (an independent research services firm) conducted from February through March 2007, showing that both the old and young generations enjoy reading magazines and are receptive Read more