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Somesso: Oct 31, Zurich

SOMESSO – the Corporate Social Media Conference is a series of recurring events organized throughout large cities in Europe where industry leaders, sales and marketing experts, agency new media specialists, internet marketers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other financiers share their ideas about CORPORATE social media and present their latest projects and discoveries. SOMESSO recognises the importance and enormous potential of Social Media in driving companies’ business values.

The mission of SOMESSO is to bring the above mentioned industry experts together on a frequent basis to let them explore and share the latest developments and strategic shifts that Social Media is causing companies across the globe.

Where is the SOMESSO conference taking place?
We’ll be at the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute

If you're interested to attend, contact us to receive a complimentary discount of 25% at adj AT trendq.eu.

Enjoy!

A new format for booklovers

We have seen quite a few niche social networks catering to booklovers already, but there is a new social network called BookRix that offers slightly more to the aspiring author. Unless its competitors, this German site (rest assured: everything is in English though) offers authors the possibility to put their work online, including a nifty tool to create the look and feel of your book's cover and content. Also, the result can be easily transported into other blogs or websites.

Members of BookRix can personalize their profiles through a sophisticated user interface and display their writing in a graphical, flipbook format. The books can be downloaded for easy reference offline and the user-friendly, horizontal layout makes reading enjoyable.

The founders behind BookRix are co-founder and CTO, Alex Racic, who is responsible for technical development; Davor David Drezga, co-founder and head of strategic portal development and design and Gunnar Siewert, co-founder and head of marketing and promotion.

35 ICT Symposium October 1 & 2nd

The latest ICT Symposium organized by Belgacom will reunite about 5,000 telco professionals from Belgium and beyond. This year, the organization is focussing on social networking as well as the technical aspects of networking. If you're interested in the topic, join me on October 2nd at 9.30h! (program below)

Build Your Own Social Network

Personally I have stopped counting at 1,000 social networks, but it seems that the latest trend is in growing your home-variety of a social network. After Ning we have seen several other vendors cropping up, offering free of charge white label social networks to experiment with, but none have become quite as popular as Ning so far. However, this doesn't mean that vendors should stop trying :-). The new kid on the block is called Neeetz. The design is simple, straight forward and clean, nothing fancy. Although I haven't created my own network on Neeetz (just a profile to get a feel for the product), it seems as easy as Ning.

The 1 million dollar question remains then: why would the market start prefering Neeetz to Ning, Ning having gained a large crowd of followers already? This remains to be seen. As Neeetz has only been active for two months, it is too early to tell. One feature I liked (and can't seem to remeber having found on Ning) is that you can choose to select networks from specific countries. This saves you time if you're only interested in local contacts.

We'll keep an eye out for them and see what new features are available in the next six months.

Tip for the Neeetz team: check out the Q&A at Ning; it will let you know what users are looking for instantly without any marketing research ;-) !

ThinkTomorrow- the program!

As many people are curious about the day's program on the 5th of June, please find the abbreviated version below. If you need more information, feel free to get in touch at adj (at) thinktomorrow.eu.

The program :

from 9 a.m to 9.30 a.m: Geert Conard/Country Manager Ecademy (Belgium)

from 9.40 a.m to 10.10 a.m: Wim De Waele/Director IBBT (Belgium)

from 10.20 a.m to 10.50 a.m: Patricia Ceysens/Flemish Minister of Economics (Belgium)

Coffee break

from 11.20 a.m to 11.50 a.m: Octavio Pitaluga/Founder TEN (Brasil)

from 12 p.m to 12.30 p.m: Emeric Ernoult/co-founder Affinitz (France)

from 12.30 to 13.30: Lunch

from 13.30 p.m to 14 p.m: Sagi Richberg/Founder of a company in stealth mode (Israel/USA)

from 14.10 p.m to 14.40 p.m: Bas Van de Haterd/van de Haterd Consultancy (The
Netherlands)

from 15 p.m to 15.30 p.m: Hendrik Deckers/CIO Net (Belgium)

Coffee break

from 16 p.m to 16.30 p.m: Sabine Allaeys/Co-founder Minifizz (Belgium)

from 16.40 p.m to 17.40 p.m: The Elevator Pitch, kindly introduced by Filip De Geijter, CEO Actonomy: Allejobsinleuven, Synergetics, Xpertize, Paladares, Wwaow, Wygwam, Knowledge Plaza, iStockCV, IntroNiche, Winkwaves

Actonomy calls for collaboration on Web2.0 for HR:
HR professionals are invited to join the work group to define the WEB2.0 for HR Model. People interested in this collaborative project, please visit www.actonomy.com/web2_0_for_hr.html

from 17.40 p.m to 19 p.m: Cocktail & networking

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At 2:07pm on October 17, 2008, Abdul Mannan Barbhuiya said…: Dear Madam,

Thank you very much for accepting RecruitingBlogs.com invitation. I have browsed your Profile with great interest and am glad to have connected with a successful executive/professional like you. Be well, do good work and keep in touch.

I am an Open Networker. Please feel free to invite me to your network or group/community.

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At 1:44am on July 17, 2008, Milind said…: Can we connect for the benefit of our biz and friendship ?!!
I am running my software development firm, we are speacilized in making dynamic and interactive internet websites.

If I can be of any help to you please let me know.

Looking forward to hear from you.

At 2:45am on March 16, 2008, Eden Britt said…: Hi An,

Thanks for reaching out to me. Let keep in touch.

Regards

Eden

At 10:58am on March 15, 2008, Douglas Mazanec said…: Hello An ... thanks for reaching out to me on RecruitingBlogs .. I'm always looking to learn and share with other smart people ..