new iphone on sale today in Zurich .... in the US too

So today in the City just voted No 1 in the world, for best quality of life, Zurich, the city in which I spend a large part of my life writing about start ups and project managing; the new iphone is the talk of the moment. ..................

Photo iphone Wisequeen Donna Jackson bonding with hers

 An, iphone 3G S  review done by Stephen fry  on Guardian Tech  

   here are some tweets about the new iphone 3G S coming out of the city this morning.

RT @jsamuelson And they tried to tell me it was Apples decision not to discount, not Swisscom. Rubbish.

Yes shop workers r full of BS. Mobilezone were saying, the day after the keynote, that the 3GS would not be in CH till end 2009!

iPhone 3GS has arrived!!!! w00t! Huge box such a small iPhone box.

 iphone3G S guide video

Oops! trying to tweet from the iPhone 3GS using @tweetie but it exits as soon as I try to type.

@stargatejohn There's GPS in the G2 Touch.

quarterwikiRT @mbenez Fido customers are getting the shaft from Rogers on 3GS: Rogers is allowing customers who purchased... http://u2s.me/gbQCa

RT @stevegarfield I uploaded a YouTube video -- iPhone 3GS Chestnut Hill MA

Heres the latest tweet up in Zurich, if you want to join in next time and want to be advised about

innovation dinners watch this space.

Need to update to 3G S on itunes heres an instruction video

Tell us about your iphone experience leave us a comment New start up in Zurich? crow about it here

Donna Jackson

Online Branding the new-fashioned way Specialist

Wisequeen

Milan hosts Enterprise 2.0 INT forum

So my last few posts have covered the major capitals of the world,where I have attended Web conferences within these last weeks, London, Rome and now Milan.

The International forum on Enterprise 2.o was organised and co-sponsored by Open Knowledge, a skilled Enterprise 2.O team of 8 partners based in Milan.

The speakers where great, and included Ross Mayfield Founder of Socialtext, who spoke on "breaking down the barriers to success in an increasingly complex world" George Siemens from the University of Manitoba, who spoke on knowledge without management, and Laurence Lock Lee who gave us some great Ideas on Social capital and its origins.

The full programme of speakers can be found here.

One of the most entertaining talks for me, was, Andrew Gilboy's of EMEA Oracle talk on " from content to people." He told his story of himself as a young manager in Australia, asking the board of Coke to adopt the idea of using email in its infancy, and being turned down by the board, as they said they couldn't see value. He then later met a man who told him that he too had presented in the past to the Coke board on adopting barcodes, and they couldnt see the value in that either.

His advice to the room was: Don't expect the company/corporation to see the value in adopting and embracing Enterprise 2.0 or social media to make teams communicate better. "Your hope lies in improving the relationship with customers by using these tools."

Swiss Re also gave a good talk on how they got management to buy into using social media tools.

Shantrez Miller spoke on the methods they used.

Lunch was a light-hearted Italian affair as we walked to local resturants. Ours was The Duke near Missori, where I had the pleasure of sharing a table with Ross Mayfield, Emmanuele Quintarelli the organizer and George Siemens, where we debated the twitter phenomenon.

There where panels discussing innovation within Italy in Italian, using Enterprise 2.0, and many questions were asked. A full translation service into English or Italian was provided throughout the conference, which I was pleased I didn't need, being a long time resident Of la Italia.

After lunch there were panel discussions and  David Terrar of Wordframe gave a short talk on some of the pioneers using the enterprise to build communities within their SME s

II was a full and interesting day, and then there were beers in Milan at Rosso Pomodoro.

Were you there? what was your takeout at #E2 09,or would you simply like to comment about the Enterprise. Send us a comment

Donna Jackson,

Social Comunications Specialist

Wisequeen

When In Rome....

So last Friday I was in Rome again, a city that has always charmed me. Mostly, because if you ask any Roman, on any street, including taxi drivers, about their home city, you will get more or less this answer: "Roma e la piu bella citta del mondo" and just like a woman whose response to affirmation is to glow prettier, so does Rome, she glows under her labels "The eternal city", "The most beautiful city"

Yes you can, find litter, beggars, people dragging sad dogs in a haze of drug-induced stupor, but Rome's people love it. I love it. The fountains, the piazze, everyone of them unique, and I'm not a foreign tourist anymore. I have lived north of here for years now.

The venue was good,and  thanks to my taxi driver I found it easily enough in 30 degree heat.

Anyway, I was there blogging for techgarage awards for innovation in web and new media at LUISS. and representing poken.

So began a jam-packed day with 10 start ups presenting.

Poken was represented in the gadgets arena and our poken table with myself representing Poken for Italy, was by far the most visited and popular, with lots of people waiting their turn to see how it worked to manage their social media contacts better.

If you can't wait to get your hands on one of those little critters, then Click on Firebox AD(on the right) they will sell and ship you a single poken. For larger orders in Italy, contact me via my direct email link, bottom right.

The award for innovation was won by a group of smart young people who started Criticalcity.com and  runner up was another interesting start up from Torino called smartRM

Then a good lunch was served outside by white coated waiters, roman style. I never managed to access wifi, but then Italy and her bars are not known for public wifi accessability, innovation or not.

I met so many interesting start ups and people there that, as a networking event, it was worth braving the heat.

Afterwards, we repaired to a cool bar on a wide leafy avenue, Parnaso piazziale Muse above LUISS uni to look over Rome and the green belt with an icy Aperol .

I did not get a chance to throw a coin in the Trevi fountain, but I will definitely be back.

In the following weeks, some of the start ups and VCs like Dpixel (shown below) organising and sponsors at the event, will be interviewed here on wisequeen,

so keep your eye on the blog.

Send us a comment if you attended the event, or want to know more about the startups represented there.

Donna Jackson

Social Communications Specialist.

Wisequeen

Arsenal's home stadium hosts #smo09 Somesso London

The Emirates stadium,

Arsenal's home stadium hosted #smo09 Somesso London on Friday with speakers on corporate social media like Stowe Boyd, who really got my attention with his original approach to web communities and networks in his talk on the webful brand.

Karen Weber recorded a audio boo with me after the event asking me what me number one take out was from the event listen

We were both entertained and inspired by the range of speakers and the discussions on web communities and marketing in which we took part.

Companies ranging from Jason Goldberg from Xing Germany whose caption "SHIP IT " became the buzzword of the conference, to Lee Bryant of  Headshift, Sony Ericsson, IBM,  Wes Chan of  Google,  Marilyn Pratt of  SAP community, and also speakers from  the banking sector.

Jason Falls of Doe Anderson traveled from the States too, to share  Social Media  brand building savy. 

All the speakers where listed on my last post, and their presentations will be up on Somesso soon.

Then Umair Haque who is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation, showed us how Obama mobilised the online community to help him win. Umair also blogs for Harvard Business Publishing.

My number one take out was the importance of transparency and candor in building a personal or corporate online brand.

" Your customers are smarter than you are" rang true, we all know what can happen when we fail to listen to the big panel of judges that test our releases and products, called the web community.

Interestingly the question was asked how many don't use Twitter, and three people put up their hands.

I was tweeting up a storm on #smo09.

Heres my wisequeen twitter page

It was a great day with usable wifi and great company,

A tweet up followed at the Cittie of York in Chancery Lane where two twitter buddies @vascellari and @girlygeekdom kept me entertained on the tube ride there. We met the crowd at the character filled. "Cittie of York"

 

Donna Jackson

Wisequeen

Social Communications Specialist.

Leave us a comment with your feedback on the event or what you got from it. if youd like to know more about the next even, leave a comment and I'll email you.

Somesso conference London 15th May 2009

This is the second Somesso conference, the first was held in Zurich 2008.

“Benefiting from Social Capital and the Relationship Economy as the recession bites”

The london conference will attract speakers like Stowe boyd speaking on " Unmarketing and the Webful Brand". An early adopter Stowe Boyd of the The /Messengers will speak with authority on how to create a brand using social tools. Then Lee Bryant of Headshift will speak on "building a 21st century company and unbranding".

What exactly is Sommeso? A Social media forum covering the use of social media and it's adoption in communities, companies and institutions. The Dutch organiser Arjen Strijker

of SOMESSO - The Corporate Social Media

lives in Zurich were he set up Somesso. The moderator Susan Kish is Director of Knowledge Services at New Energy Finance.

The full agenda and speakers can be found here.

As usual Wisequeen will be blogging live from the event participating in the forums, and bringing you all the highlights and takeaway gems on twitter. Follow hashtags #smo09

This is a not to be missed event for companies and individuals to experience the power of social tools and their use across all sectors and industries.

Register here for London conference 15th May 2009

The next Somesso conference will be held in Barcelona

Have a question on Somesso, want to express your opinion? leave a comment.

Donna Jackson

Social communications Specialist

Wisequeen