This article highlights the importance of IT developers having a comprehensive and carefully drafted development contract with their clients in place before commencing any IT project.
The location-based social network FourSquare has really divided opinion among users and even raised security fears with the launch of a spoof website. FourSquare also offers opportunities for marketers to tap into members in their area, so New Media Knowledge decided to get the views of a leading Internet marketer to evaluate the pros and cons of FourSquare.
The population of social network Facebook now exceeds all countries apart from China and India, yet the vast majority of Facebook groups fail to amass a following of more than one thousand. With social media fast becoming part of mainstream marketing, New Media Knowledge sought to find out exactly how companies could benefit from Facebook groups.
Blurtit.com operates from rural Norfolk and operates their Q&A Community free of charge for all users, making money only on advertising throughout the site. This method of business has worked well for Blurtit because rather than paying for someone’s help, it acts as a source of information sharing and therefore provides a strong community.
Most managers are not currently equipped with the knowledge necessary to facilitate real organizational and business change. They lack the frame of learning required to excel beyond ecommerce, and towards eBusiness. Christopher Skinner, from MakeBuzz, discusses the theme in this article to New Media Knowledge. more
Doing business via social networks is a hot topic at the moment, and the hottest place for small businesses right now is BT Tradespace. New Media Knowledge’s Chris Lee spoke to BT Tradespace’s general manager, Didier Liautaud, to see how far it has come as it approaches its third birthday.
With social media rapidly taking centre stage in marketing directors’ plans for 2010, Mark Redgrave, CEO of OpenAmplify, explains the role he believes the ‘Semantic Web’ will play in social media going forward. more
Benjamin Dyer, director of product development at ecommerce supplier Actinic, reflects on the reality of that most elusive of future technologies: mobile commerce. more
Guy Walker put his two decades of industry experience into forming FindsYou.com, a new website which alerts sellers with suitable buyers through an alert system and enables them to initiate contact.
Walker talks to NMK’s Chris Lee about the business model, the wider e-commerce market and pinball machine repair men…
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