Barbara Mallinson founded OBAMI, a social network and eLearning platform specifically designed for schools. Barbara is on a mission to bring the best eTools and social networking to teachers and learners. OBAMI enables the teachers to distribute resources, to allow the learners and teachers to comment and discuss the resources, as well as to provide assessments [...]
The internet of things useful… arrives Having heard Cedric Hutchings, co-founder and CEO of Withings, speak at LeWeb 2010 last year, I had the chance to meet him at the Université d’Ete 2011 for the MEDEF (an organization for French business executives and entrepreneurs). If I had to summarize, Withings is the real beginning of the “internet [...]
A podcast is content… yessir! Mitch Joel remains a man on the ball and one of the most revered voices in digital marketing across North America. In this early morning interview recorded on August 1st, 2011, with Mitch in Montreal, we discussed where we are in digital marketing, how can companies improve their digital strategy [...]
A Social Search Optimizer Martin-Luc Archambault, 30, is a “serial entrepreneur” in the tech/web world. Based out of Montreal, Quebec, he is CEO and co-founder of Wajam, a social search optimizer or add-on that is still in a private beta phase (launched in February 2011). In addition, Martin-Luc is CEO and co-founder of Bolidea, a [...]
Get smart (-phone) marketing As smart as the internet can make you, it is not called the smartnet nor the intellinet. Meanwhile, mobile phones that connect to the internet are called “smart phones.” Not sure I subscribe to the title. This label may soon be considered as silly as putting “new” or “modern” in front [...]
The importance of dialogue I have been podcasting in English and French now for nearly a year now. For those of you who don’t know it, I call my podcast the Minter Dialogue radio show. I use the term “radio show” thanks to the advice of Alan Stevens because the word podcast is just too [...]
I had the chance to meet François Pétavy, a fellow INSEAD alum, who is CEO of Eyeka, a successful French start-up providing a co-creation and crowdsourcing platform for brands around the world. Eyeka manages a community of over 140,000 creative consumers who participate and co-create with brands on a wide array of briefs that focus [...]
Interactive Marketing at its best I got to know Rachel Weiss while working at L’Oreal. Specifically, Rachel began at L’Oréal in 2007 working on the digital strategy for PureOlogy and Redken USA (‘professional’ brands that sell through the hairdresser channel and is, thus B2B2C). At the beginning of this year, Rachel was promoted to run [...]
Andrew ‘Drew’ Ellis is the co-founder of We Are Like Minds, which was founded in October 2009 and has quickly taken up a pole position as thought leaders for business using social media at their global events, and with an eponymous co-working private members club in London WC2. Drew also founded EyetoEye Digital, in 1994, [...]
Up close with a founding father of the Internet: Dr. Stephen Crocker
I had the distinct pleasure to meet and interview Dr Stephen Crocker, one of the three founding fathers of the Internet. In the photo on the left, Steve is the one with the intention of only listening to what goes on. The other two are Jon Postel (1943-1998) and Vinton Cerf (b 1943). As a [...]