April 2006

vyew – a free web-based collaboration tool – Webex Killer?

April 30, 2006 Innovation

Zoli says he’s seen a presentation from a company that will add this type of functionality without requiring having to wait for the vyew developers to get hold of the API and then shoehorn Skype into vyew…. Better still, we have way where Hugh could share his designs with the Stormhoek people in real-time using his Tablet PC and vyew.

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Do I blog too often?

April 30, 2006 Marketing

…I think the answer is subtle and simple: over time, as blogs reach the mass market, the number of new readers coming in is going to go down, and the percentage of loyal readers will increase…. But I want the profession to move on. There is so much happening that’s important I want to capture it all and pass that on. Posts I just know are juicy sometimes flop.

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David Milliband, government censorship and being punched from both sides

April 30, 2006 Marketing

[note - so is David] All Ali has to do is come back and declare who he/she is and then we can fairly assess what is said…. The more inventive of my readers will, I’m sure, find ways of using Milliband’s blog to prise open government just an inch or two.

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BBC search and the irrelevance of accountants

April 30, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

OK – so you can’t see the clip but I can tell you that was the hardest £100 I ever lost money on. Sure, the BBC paid me £50 for turning up but it cost me £150 to get there!… Sure – but the BBC remains a vast, useful catalogue of social history from which we can draw and make useful comparison – in real-time.

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Do you like the Stormhoek wine label idea?

April 30, 2006 Marketing

I know it’s a Bank Holiday in the UK and most of my readers will be doing something else but for those lucky few that are reading this – I’ve found a wine label idea for Stormhoek that will blow your mind…. If he gets in touch with Loic LeMeur, France’s uber-blogger, SixApart exec and otherwise excellent company, he’ll give good feedback.

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Compliance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) for SMEs

April 28, 2006 Uncategorized

Now for the history and if I have told it before then here’s the latest version: Dennis Keeling who himself is just getting into blogging yet is very powerful within the vendor community and has influence at the seat of government, suggested Manoj get in touch with me…. Yesterday, I was able to help Manoj with a communications problem he was having inside another vendor and was able to source a more appropriate contact together with an alternative at board level if this doesn’t work out.

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Employee non-compliance attracts £20K FSA fine

April 28, 2006 Uncategorized

Insurance Insider (subscription site) carries an article: UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Lloyd’s broker Besso £20,000 for failure to apply for approval of a member of its management who had previous fraud convictions and is alleged to have gone on to commit fraud whilst at the firm…. How many prospective employees are going to be chuffed by the idea of a police notice of good conduct to be available for inspection in connection with a job application as a financial advisor?

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More audit compliance and SarBox woes and opportunities

April 28, 2006 General

It has made it so expensive for a public company that these companies that used to be able to go public with $20 million in revenues and growing, and things are going very well, are now in a position where they have to wait until they’re doing $100 million in revenues…. A lot of the entrepreneurs I’ve talked to who have very successful companies who are going to take them public are going to take them public on the London exchange, or the Singapore exchange, or the Hong Kong exchange, and not on NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange because the restrictions and [SOX] have just made it too difficult.

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Microsoft unwilling to explain its future

April 28, 2006 Marketing

I suggested to Robert that he: Hunt out the closest person to your CFO who blogs and can explain the figures in words the man in the street will understand…. Note to Steve Ballmer (who doesn’t read blogs – allegedly) – Tell your chief finance people to start an internal blog where they can figure out how to communicate with one another for a start – then get them engaging with operations who in turn can communicate with customers over your extended supply and customer chain.

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