Re: social business "players"

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Bassetti, Ann <ann.bassetti@boeing.com>wrote:

>  Hey, Stéfane – that's really excellent!  Sorry to say, I have never
> heard of any of them.
>

That's the main issue most french software vendors have, unfortunately.


> 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.
>

Indeed.


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> 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?
>

I'm don't have a wide enough view of the issues at hand, at least one of
them that is of interest to me is the question around standards (and the
fact that there are so many of them to choose from...).

As one of the organisers (and program vice-chairs) of the Open World Forum
2013 (see http://www.openworldforum.org/en for the 2012 edition) I guess
that a workshop on "Open standards for the social business web" would be
perfectly appropriate in this context, but maybe it's a bit too far in the
future (OWF2013 will take place in October 2013).

  S.

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> *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"****
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> Ann,****
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>  FYI, here's a list of French companies creating soclal business
> applications:****
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> - Abilian (my company)****
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> - Azendoo****
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> - Jalios****
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> - Jamespot****
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> - Knowings****
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> - Knowledge­‐Plaza****
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> - SeeMy****
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> -TalkSpirit****
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> - XWiki****
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> - Yoolink****
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> Here's a list of french consultancies around social business:****
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> - Lecko****
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> - NextModernity****
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> These are the people we regularly hear from in France.****
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> Here's also a list of professional events happening in Paris around social
> business:****
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> - E2.0 Summit Paris (http://www.e20summit.de/)****
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> (OK it's a bit short at this point, I may be missing some information).***
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> Regards,****
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>   S.****
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> On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:32 AM, Bassetti, Ann wrote:****
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> Hi All –****
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> 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:****
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> ·         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****
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> ·         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.****
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> 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.**
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> 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... ****
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> 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.****
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>   -- Ann****
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> Stefane Fermigier, tech entrepreneur
> http://fermigier.com/ - http://twitter.com/sfermigier -
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sfermigier
> "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
> "There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice." - Ken Gor****
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"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice." - Ken Gor