• When the social media bubble burst

    by  • October 25, 2010 • 0 Comments

    Dick Lee asked recently in LinkedIn: “We rarely see people as enthused as they are over social media. Among those recent rare times are: when the high-tech balloon popped; at the height of the housing bubble; just before the market crashed; and when Sarah Palin was nominated for VP. Hey, exuberance can be headiest just [...]

    Read more →

    The New Enterprise

    by  • May 26, 2010 • 1 Comment

    The “new enterprise” as I call it is a network of highly engaged individuals or groups of individuals that may constitute the most successful organizationism in the future – actually organization + organism is organizationism. However it will be quite challenging to build the first of such “new enterprises” as many potential customers may require [...]

    Read more →

    7 Years Social Media

    by  • May 11, 2010 • 1 Comment

    “Seven years ago, in spring 2003,  Konstantin Guerke, one of the LinkedIn co-founders invited me to join LinkedIn. I had no idea what he was talking about – but my instinct told me: “go – this is interesting”. My LinkedIn ID: 8573.  I wasn’t too embarrassed not understanding the full scope because he didn’t either! [...]

    Read more →

    End of Automation

    by  • April 26, 2010 • 0 Comments

    Please listen carefully to this menu as the menu has changed. Your call is important to us but please leave a voice message. If you need more information go to www – dot – whatever dot com… Sound familiar? The intentions were good – yet the results are telling us we made huge mistakes. Automation [...]

    Read more →

    Merger of Blogs

    by  • April 26, 2010 • 0 Comments

    I am finally replacing my old website and merge my personal Blog that resided on Blogger.com since 2005 with my Social Relationship blog I recently started. Why “End of Automation”? No I don’t envision moving back to caves or living in trees (nice idea though) – No, I’m taking tangible business results. I’m talking about [...]

    Read more →

    sCRM & SRM

    by  • April 25, 2010 • 0 Comments

    This week we introduced our first Social CRM solution, Xeesm/Edge!. A powerful social relationship management system with a touch of sales process. Are you confused? I guess so. And to be honest I’m not sure where the market will take us. Xeesm is a crowd source based product. And as such I’m sure the crowd [...]

    Read more →

    The split image of sCRM

    by  • December 11, 2009 • 0 Comments

    Social CRM has two major and very different aspects: 1) The sCRM Product Solution Aspect As CRM is under huge pressure from the open and collaborative social media space, CRM vendors (first was Oracle) decided to promote the idea of “Social CRM”. Even so there is no real product and no real product definition, it [...]

    Read more →

    Social CRM – a dead end?

    by  • December 11, 2009 • 0 Comments

    I just read a few articles about sCRM. One was a post on a blog where the blog doesn’t allow comments (very social). The other was talking about Ajax enabled technology that revolutionizes CRM (OMG) and yet another one described the advantage of getting Twitter streams and Facebook wall entrances all feed into the CRM [...]

    Read more →