Business blogging is great thing for Internet Social Marketing. Here is link to Podcast from Enterprise Ireland about it. Most important thing – it is presented by Damien Mulley, blogger, copywriter and trainer, and Roseanne Smith, the Membership, Marketing and Communications Manager for the Irish Internet Association.
I have always problems explaining people what our company does. Not because I don’t know what it does, but because other people isn’t knowledgeable enough to understand the concept. If I say “eBusiness” – people don’t know the term. If I say “business process optimisation” – they think we aren’t IT company. If I say “we do web development”, they usually reply “ah, web design”. Wrong! (Of course we do web design too, but it’s not our main business…)
So I met my mentor last week and he told me that people do not care how I call it – websites are still websites. They want their project done and they don’t care how we build it. And he asked question which made me think – “Which comes first design or development?”. By logic and all the good concepts I and probably most of you would reply “design”. But is it true in agile development?
I searched a bit over the net and found one really good article about it. And now what I think is that in agile development pilot project comes first. Pilot project is proof of concept that developed idea can work. You can argue that it should have some design anyway, but it’s just something to get ideas from for the finalised design.
Agile development is test-driven. You write tests first and only then code and then design. Have I proved my point? Any ideas about this?
This is already my 3rd post about twitter. Somehow I feel like Twitter fan now (even if I’m not reading twitter very often).
Today I googled for my company and some other blog that appeared in my Google Analytics, just to see where does the hits came from. And accidentally I found one interesting site – muumoo.jp. While you wouldn’t understand a thing what’s written there (it’s in Japanese), I found that if I write http://tw.muumoo.jp/_twitter name_/friends_web then list of all twitter friends + their links appears on the site. As I wanted to add friends blogs in Technorati, this is great way to see all blogs.
Check out my friends list: http://tw.muumoo.jp/gita_m/friends_web
“The Irish Internet Association (IIA) is the professional body for those conducting business via the internet from Ireland. It has been and remains one of the driving forces behind the adoption of the medium. Established in 1997, the IIA provides leadership to enterprises and society conducting business in Ireland.”
Last year we joined different associations and networking groups but couldn’t meet our target audience through them. I believe IIA is the right choice for us, see post about joining at IIA blog.
Last week I went to Data Edge half-day seminar about Networking testing. This however wasn’t what I was expecting (as I’m not admin and can’t understand routers 
). However I received mail from them today about other tools that can help me do testing.
Check out:
Keynote LoadPro Service
LoadPro service
or
Download Keynote’s FREE Keynote Internet Testing Environment (KITE) tool here
Have to look at them at my free time…
This Friday HubSpot had another quite nice webinar. I tried out to draw mind map of it. I know – it is not perfect as each branch shouldn’t contain more than 1 word. But still, it’s great way to get an overview of it.
This post is dedicated to IGOpeople as part of Tuesday Push.
I started to use IGOpeople right after I stopped to use Yammer. When I joined IGOpeople I found a lot of people I know and the topics that are interesting to read. While Yammer e-mail announcements I found really annoying, I love IGOpeople weekly digest. It keeps me on track of all the things happening in my groups and who said what. I can also rate topics I like and contact people directly. It keeps track of everything I did and others did – it so it’s really great.
So few things I liked about the IGOpeople was:
- Dell Limerick group – it is really great idea and a lot of positive feedback from people
- Keiretsu group (as I do love everything related to Japan and would love this to be implemented in Ireland)
- I put up my own topic and got a lot of valuable responses
- I got twitter accounts for people related to IT & Business in Ireland. I always try to get grow my network and this is great way of doing it
- I joined 5 Fav Books group and got good idea which books to read next
It all started 8th of January when Dell decided to cut 1,900 jobs in Limerick and move manufacturing to Poland over next 12 months.
Just few days later a new idea was born – Dell employees should start their own business. And while some were still discussing it, people like Evert and Chris went right into action.
Right after news they posted blog post “How to turn a bad thing around…” and received awesome response from people commenting. So they went further and created group on IGO people. At the moment it has over 20 members who are willing to help Dell employees for free or with discounts. Idea got also featured in Silicon Republic just few days later.
People started to respond very quickly – re-blogging Open Coffee post and even creating seminar covering redundancy.
Evert posted yet another post yesterday following ideas from New York incubators and the ones in London, Ottawa, Waterloo. I’m sure there isn’t anything like that in Ireland. Keep it going!
It might take time, but if we will support Dell employees, Limerick valley is not a fantasy.
For those who missed here is news on 8th of January:
“1,900 jobs lost at Dell in Limerick” by RTE News
“Dell’s Ireland plant to shed 1,900 jobs” by CNET news
Redundancy has been very popular topic from September and people keep blogging about it. If you look around the net, you will see a lot of help already provided for Dell employees. For example, RecruitIreland.com offers free placement of any recruitment ads on their site to any Limerick based employer.
Cheers and keep it going!
People often use terms incorrectly. It’s ok if nobody around knows that term anyway. However after some time term gets wrong meaning in people eyes. E.g. a lot of people are mixing up eBusiness and eCommerce and don’t know what they really are.
I wanted to start discussion about eBusiness term and make people more aware what it is.
Please join me by leaving comment here as reply to “what is eBusiness?” or reply in:
Thank you!
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