Handouts for Social Media Workshop @ Kassel

Thanks to all of you who participated in our latest social media workshop held at the Mövenpick Hotel in Kassel. It was a great day for us with a lot of interesting feedback and in-depth discussions. Our entire team (Prof. Wagner, http://cms.uni-kassel.de/unicms/?id=21712 and me) are looking forward to intensify our discussions and drive some joint projects forward.

Please find the seminar handouts for download at Prof. Wagner's academic website.

You can easily stay tuned for all the activities going on at the DMCC by following Prof. Wagner's team on Twitter.

My slides on "Market and media monitoring with Qitera" could also be found at document sharing service scrib.com here. Just give me a ping if you are interested in further information.
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Best regards,
Carlo

Video Summary of Social Search Session from Global Future Camp

Thanks again to Moritz and his team for organizing the GlobalFutureCamp in Berlin. While now 2 weeks ago the #gfc09 was a great experience leveraging the ideas and inspirations of a bunch of very engaged and motivated people. It was good to see how many people in our digital industry really care about future challenges and take responsibility (and action!). To grab some of the atmosphere and some insights on the discussion results please find photos on flickr, tweets and other action at mixxt.

Our session about the future of search and how socially-empowered technologies will reshape the search industry is summarized in the video below. Please find more infos at our scrib.com page or our website.

Latest Slides on "Social Search" presented at Social Software@Work event at Schloss Mickeln

For all who joined yesterday's insightful event at Schloss Micklen ("Social Software@Work") I have shared my presentation slides below. If you have any further questions or interest in our current collaboration platform (or our crazy lab projects) please contact me via email or XING.

Best regards, Carlo

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Corporate Communication with Social Media - Executive Seminar

Together with the Management School of Kassel University and the Endowed Chair for International Direct Marketing, Qitera will be hosting a hands-on seminar for professionals from corporate communications and marketing. The seminar will focus on the strategic impact and operational tactics of social media within the corporate communication processes. As there are only some tickets left, please sign up at our XING-event site here until 28 September 2009. Additional information and the agenda can be found here or get in touch with Qitera founder Carlo Velten.

Artist Mark Lombardi as grandfather of Social Search

In his session at the Globalfuture barcamp in Berlin, Qitera founder Carlo Velten outlined how artist Mark Lombardi has influenced the architecture model of social search that will be the new paradigm for search within the next 2-8 years. In his session Carlo presented some of Qitera's approaches to semantically-powered search and the core principles of its current enterprise social search platform. The debate than circled around the near-term future of semantic and social services and how user-data could be provided in a secure and seamless way. You can find some slides here. Additional information and some video footage of Carlo's session could be find on the groups Facebook-page.

Qitera founder Carlo Velten moderates session at "GlobalFuture" Barcamp in Berlin

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will moderate a session at the "GlobalFuture" barcamp in Berlin this weekend (Sept. 18-19.). The session is part of the wider topic "trust & confidence in web and economy" and will circle around how the future search technologies will become social. Feel free to join us for an interesting session about futuristic tech and social trends. Please sign up at http://www.globalfuturecamp.de or get in touch with organizer-in-chief Moritz.

For more information about our "future of search session" please check out the agenda
here(Scrib document).

Qitera founder to moderate EO teambuildung event in Berlin

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will moderate a panel for the Entrepreneurs' Organization in Berlin on Tuesday 14. Sept. The event will circle around the topic of "teambuilding" and bring together a bunch of successful entrepreneurs for a debate with two of Germany's leading sports and music stars Stefan Kretzschmar and Lucy Diakowska. If you are member of OE please do sign up for the event here.

Qitera founder Carlo Velten to speak about the future of Market Research

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will give a lecture about new directions and instruments in market research for high-tech start-ups. The lecture is part of a series of academic and hands-on presentations at the Entrepreneurship Summer School organized by CENSET (Center for Scientific Entrepreneurship and Transfer) at University of Cologne and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Finance at Georg-Augusta-University of Göttingen. The venue for this event will be Schloss Wahn nearby Cologne.

For further information or the presentation slides please do contact Carlo Velten.

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Qitera founder Carlo Velten to speak about Future of Social Search at Heinrich-Heine-University

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will join a panel and speak about the "social future" of search together with other experts gathering at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf at Sept 28.

Carlo will outline some of the technological underpinnings of social search and give an outlook on future search trends. Additionally Carlo will demo Qitera Enterprise and show how Qitera have implemented Social Search within its Enterprise Collaboration suite.

The interdisciplinary workshop "Social Software @ Work" is organized by the institute for information management at Heinrich-Heine-University and will bring together experts from the business and academic world.

We are looking forward to some fruitful discussions. Please do find more information here http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/social-software/programm.html or get in touch with Isabella Peters

New direct and real-time communication features within Qitera social collaboration platform

Qitera is starting to release a series of new features for its social collaboration and search platform.

Before a major release will be introduced next week Qitera Enterprise™ now allows all users to communicate in real-time via chat. Beside regular chat functionality between two users, Qitera Enterprise™ enables chatting for
-topics
-groups
-projects

So team communication is clearly focused and helps to share relevants views and information in a very fast and very productive way.

We are happy about feedback.

Qitera CTO Rene Seeber to speak at BITKOM knowledge management workshop

Qitera founder & CTO Rene Seeber will give a key note speech about „Time and user as semantic levels of information structuring" at executive workshop which is organized by BITKOM on September the 24th. The workshop will focus on the topic "innovative methods and technologies for knowledge management".

Rene Seeber will be speaking about the thematic cooperation of employees and how it can be used in project-oriented work environments, to store information more effectively, filter, search and make them available sustainably.

The workshop targets information professionals and IT-decision makers in the field of knowledge management, search technologies and semantic web. Please do find more information about the workshop below or read our press release(German)below.

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Qitera founder to speak about Social Media Monitoring at executive event

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will give a key note speech about Social Media Monitoring at executive event organized by the Management School of Kassel University at September 30.

The event introduces the new concepts of social media marketing (e.g. blogs, Twitter) to decision makers from leading German companies. If you are interested to learn more about how to integrate Web 2.0 into your marketing strategy, please do find more information about the event below or read our press release (German) here:

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Social Search now integrated in Bing

Microsoft's new search engine Bing is getting more and more attractive in the market. Since its launch Qitera offers its leading social search technology to be integrated into Bing. Thereby Qitera-users can benefit from the collective intelligence of their organisation while searching the web.

Qitera Assist™ integrates your company's individual search results into Bing. Qitera Assist™ automatically shows matching websites or documents that you or your colleagues have saved in Qitera. So you can spot the most relevant results at a glance and check out personal comments or ratings your colleagues have added. Qitera Assist™ lets you benefit from your social network's knowledge and saves you time searching - that is how search gets social.

For more information about our Enterprise Social Search and Collaboration Platform please do contact Carlo Velten.

Qitera supports non-profit organizations with innovative collaboration platform

Within a special campaign Qitera offers non-profit organizations the opportunity to benefit from its innovative collaboration and search platform. Organizations in the field of education, culture, environment and sports could apply for our community partner program to get up to 100 premium licenses of Qitera Enterprise™ for free.

"Within today's financial and economic crisis, most non-profit organizations suffer from melting donations and less member activity because people have to take care of their jobs and family" says Carlo Velten, one of Qitera's founders and an active member of various non-profit-organizations.

"Our community partner program should enable non-profit organizations to make use of web 2.0 software that frees them from expensive software and infrastructure investments. Most organizations could not afford to pay an professional IT-manager but have to provide tools for effective team work and collaboration. We hope that a lot of organization will get more agile and productive by using our collaboration and search solution.", explains Carlo.

Please do find further information below or contact us for your individual account.

Best regards,
Your Qitera team.

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Qitera among upcoming start-ups in Saas-market

In a recent article by Jens Tönnesmann, Germany's leading business publication Wirtschaftswoche covers several upcoming start-ups in the Saas-space. The article gives an overview how Qitera and other young software companies are delivering software innovations as "Software as a Service". Please do read the full article here (in German).

"Social-Business-Design" - or how to make enterprise 2.0 projects successful

Thinking a lot about new concepts and metrics that could help to plan, implement and run Enterprise 2.0 projects successfully, we recently came across the term "Social Business Design". The term originated from US consulting firm dachis group. It would be too easy to judge it as just another hype term. Indeed, we do believe that it is a good way to describe the urgent need to bring together business and IT-thinking.

Our project experiences with leading companies all over Europe have shown that still a majority of business leaders have no real clue how the new web technologies are reshaping their business and the way their organizations communicate within their various ecosystems (customers, employees, partners, shareholders).

So the "Social Business Design" approach could be helpful to think about enterprise 2.0 in a more holistic and strategic way. As the dachis group team phrases it "The social business design framework captures ecosystem (community), hivemind (culture), dynamic signal (collaboration), and metafilter (content)."

From our perspective enterprise 2.0 needs some additional back-up from strategic planning and HR. Only when new enterprise 2.0 planning metrics (e.g. shareability, activity index, search flow) are integrated into the companies goal sheets and HR plans, new initiatives will be successful. At Qitera we love the bottom-up initiatives that drive most initial activities. But to profit from productivity gains and collective intelligence on a broader scale the entire organization has to jump on the train.

Currently we are forming a working group together with some of our clients aiming to distill some real planning and ROI-metrics that could help to plan and measure enterprise 2.0 success. Please contact Carlo Velten if you are interested to join our working group.

IBM CEO Study unveils new collaboration trends to shape future success of global companies

Global CEO Study companies in the future have to serve well informed and more demanding customers. Market insights are critical to the Enterprise of the Future. Social networking and real-time collaboration tools improve communication and close the distance between people in different locations. Good ideas develop and spread quicker, and problems are solved faster. New social technologies connect everyone to the customer and help to unleash the collective intelligence of the organization. The Enterprise of the Future recognizes the value of information it collects through its many channels and actively mines it for insights.

Qitera's search and collaboration platform aims to help CEOs and CIOs to successfully transform their companies into learning organizations. Qitera makes it easy to collect, share and search market and customer knowledge within global organizations.

In the world's largest study of this kind IBM has interviewed over 1,100 CEOs and senior executives from the private and public sector. The study outlines how CEOs anticipate the future development and market success of their organizations. Please find the full report here.

Qitera sponsors Executive Seminar on „Competitive Intelligence“

Keeping track with competitors has become a real challenge in a world with exploding information. The web has reshaped the way companies track and evaluate their competitor's initiatives and actions. Thousands of new information sources have to be monitored. Web sites, blogs, social networks, market places and new communication tools.

Euroforum has launched a new executive seminar that empowers decision makers to professionalize their activities in the field of competitive and market intelligence. The seminar offers insights from Europe’s leading CI-practioners and outline strategies to build up successful CI-organizations and processes. Additionally, the seminar is focused on research tactics in the upcoming social web and will showcase interesting tools and services that enable collective intelligence to be used in CI.

Qitera is pleased to sponsor the seminar starting in October 2009. Each participant will be equipped with Qitera’s leading enterprise search – and collaboration service. With Qitera companies are enabled to boost market awareness in the entire organization and to automate competitive monitoring.

Please do find further information about the agenda and the experts below (in German) or do contact Carlo Velten here.

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Filltech GmbH implements Qitera platform as sales enablement solution

Filltech GmbH is a global leader in in the field of industrial gas and pumping systems. The family-owned company is known for its advanced technologies and solutions to manage CO2 in its various forms. Filltech is specialized in designing, producing and servicing Mixed Gas solutions for every major industry. To identify and address the different market needs and to manage customer-related knowledge effectively across the organisation Filltech has a set up a project for implementing an adequate IT-solution. Filltech has chosen Qitera's social search and collaboration platform to let sales, engineering and marketing people work together and share market knowledge in an intuitive way. With Qitera customer related information is captured from various sources and shared among dedicated teams in one place. Thereby Filltech can work out more client-specific solutions and was able to cut search time to a minimum. Users can now find relevant documentation and customer news by simply searching Qitera or looking up Google. Managing director Michael Peine says "Qitera has brought us into the pole position. We can now interact much faster and more customer-oriented. With Qitera we never miss important updates on customers, markets and competition."

If you have further questions please contact Carlo Velten or read the entire success story hereby (german version).

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Competitive Intelligence Professionals - 50% of all jobs created in last 5 years

Leading IT-magazine Computerwoche releases some interesting facts about the current state of "Competitive Intelligence" (CI) as new discipline in corporations. As editor Christa Manta states, about 50% of all jobs in CI were created within the last 5 years. Companies are more aware of their competitive ecosystem and start to use professional software solutions. Please read the full article here. To learn more about Qitera's offering in CI please read our latest press release here.