Let us not mince words…and wish 2012 be a year… AAA !!

Audacity, Agility, Ambition

Happy New Year 2012

May it find you in good health, full of love and dreams to realize

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The Agile Tour, un international roadshow whose objective is to promote values​​, agile methods and practices, both inside and outside the world of software development, makes a stop in Ireland.

Organised by Frederic OEHL, Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation, the Agile Tour will be held in Dublin on Thursday 27 th of  october,  2011 Grand Canal Hotel Grand Canal Street Upper – D4 Dublin The aim of the afternoon’s conference  is to spread awareness and use of agile methods, applied to software development, IT project management, and more.The event is open to all those working in IT : Developers, System Administrators, Deisigner, Project Managers, Analysts, IT managers, but also business leaders interested in learning the methods to work in a more sustainable, more productive, more effective .. More informations about the program here Contact  Frederic OEHL: agileIreland@gmail.com

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Any projects in the pipeline?  Would you challenge to create a business? The next Startup Weekend Toulouse will be held on 13th, 14th and 15th of May 2011 at Toulouse Business School. Coaches wil be there to accompany you throughout the weekend, a panel of experts will evaluate your project at the end of the competition, the beginning of a new adventure?

In terms of competitive intelligence and knowledge management, the increasing volume of information to be processed becomes a big challenge. Company’s performance depends directly on the professional skills of its staff, experience and strategic individual knowledge, but they are rarely shared by all.
However, collective intelligence clearly shows that the efficiency of a company depends heavily on the ability to provide good information at right time.

With the maturation of Web 2.0 technologies, companies – including SMEs – have to rely on social networks to cultivate individual talents and promote interaction based on the concepts of sharing and trust.
Many methods and software tools are used to identify, build upon the business’s knowledge in order to organize and disseminate it. The latest trendy tool : content curation.

The challenge of content curation is to receive sorted and selective information, so that it is relevant and qualitative, as expected by its users. A new opportunity to empower employees and make one’s organization more reactive and agile.

How content curation can become a tool of intelligence available to all economic actors, for a better adaptation to a tense competitive environment and greater openness to the company’s stakeholders ?

Here’s an example : Content curation order to information overload

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The French government is taking concrete steps to stimulate the development of uses of Web 2.0 within enterprises. With the aim of boosting the competitiveness of French companies.

Eric Besson, Minister of Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, attended the Camping incubator start-ups of Web 2.0, held January 7, 2011 at the Palais Brongniart (Paris). Camping* is an incubation program created by the association Silicon Sentier**, to help start-up of the web Industry to take off.

There, Eric Besson has revealed plan in four-point plan to disseminate the uses of Web 2.0 within enterprises.

- A specific call for proposals named Company 2.0

- Funding for ten new projects related to the digitization of trade between companies

- Calls for projects related e-health, e-education and especially the cloud computing

- The launch of pilot projects to deploy contactless mobile services in nine French cities

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* The Camping incubator – An Anglo-Saxon approach adapted to the business French culture – is a 6 month program to help young companies take off.

** Silicon Sentier is an association of regional dimension involving hundreds of technology companies (Web, Open Source and Mobility) in Paris and Ile-de-France. It provides a platform for exchange and visibility to young innovative enterprises, encourages experimentation and cross-fertilization « of projects. Silicon Sentier seeks to contribute to the development of innovation, growth and employment.