RE: social business "players"

Hey, Stéfane – that's really excellent!  Sorry to say, I have never heard of any of them.  Just goes to show how much variation there is in the world.  I feel strongly, if we hold a workshop, we need to figure out how to pull many of these threads together.

What's your view on the W3C holding a workshop in this subject area?  If you think we should, what do you think the 'theme' or focus should be?

  -- Ann

From: Stéfane Fermigier [mailto:sfermigier@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stefane Fermigier
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:02 PM
To: Bassetti, Ann
Cc: public-socbizcg@w3.org
Subject: Re: social business "players"

Ann,

 FYI, here's a list of French companies creating soclal business applications:

- Abilian (my company)
- Azendoo
- Jalios
- Jamespot
- Knowings
- Knowledge­‐Plaza
- SeeMy
-TalkSpirit
- XWiki
- Yoolink

Here's a list of french consultancies around social business:

- Lecko
- NextModernity

These are the people we regularly hear from in France.

Here's also a list of professional events happening in Paris around social business:

- E2.0 Summit Paris (http://www.e20summit.de/)

(OK it's a bit short at this point, I may be missing some information).

Regards,

  S.

On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:32 AM, Bassetti, Ann wrote:


Hi All –

Thinking about the kinds of companies or people we might want to attract to a Soc Biz Workshop, I searched on "social business" (duh!).  Very quick searches; by no means comprehensive nor representative, turns up examples such as:

•         An event held in Europe last summer:  http://www.socialbusinessforum.com/category/speakers/ (Just to give a broad list of people who have apparently stood up in public and promoted these ideas.)  Appears that event was probably sponsored by an org called OpenKnowledge, who says they are an international company specialized in Social Business Design:  http://www.open-knowledge.it/en


•         Another similar event – "Social Business Summit" http://www.socialbusinesssummit.com/ sponsored by the Dachis Group, a self-described "social marketing optimization software solutions leader" http://www.dachisgroup.com/about-us/ .  I note that IBM is a big sponsor of both of those events.

Companies we regularly hear from are: IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce, Jive, Yammer (now owned by Microsoft).  Sorry, Mark, I probably wouldn't be in a position to hear if SAP is ringing our bells... likely they are!  Look also at the list of sponsors for the first event to get ideas of others.

My main point is, there is a LOT of activity going on regarding "social business".  Who are the key participants, opinion makers and users we want to attract? How will we snag them?  What do they need, from a standards point-of-view? Those examples represent some European and American situations.  What's going on elsewhere?  etc...

There's so much more to know and consider than the teeny bits we've talked about.  Part of feeling more comfortable with promoting a workshop is to do some of that research.

  -- Ann





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