One company that I follow with interest is Microsoft (disclosure: iTive is partner of Microsoft). Last week I had the irresistible feeling of retweeting the the video that my friend Paolo Tosolini released about Microsoft’s Academy Mobile.

Next09 Conference, Hamburg (Germany) - May 5&6
I’ll be there as premium blogger. This year event’s theme is the Share Economy

• A World Without Email - Year 2, Week 10 (Is Email Really Dead?) - Reduce over the 85% to 90% of noise that is currently coming through emails… I’m sure many of you will find value in following Luis in his mission. @elsua Dale Luis dale!
• Shaving My Head for Charity | chrisbrogan.com - Respect… @everyone: join in!
  

Yesterday after my keynote presentation on ‘Social Media in Education’ I had a nice twitter chat with the one I define the Podcasting Queen my friend Karin Hoegh. Remember her?

Episode: VMC #144 - Social Media in Education
This is the keynote on ‘Social Media in Education’ that I delivered yesterday at ITK in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Tim O’Reilly: “Web 2.0 is never intended to be a version number, it was really a reflection of what happened after the dot-com bust”
@Tim: you made me smile when you said this.
This time I couldn’t make it to San Francisco but I was hoping that Tim could have start his keynote exactly like he did. Why? Well let’s say to set things clear.

• Logic+Emotion: How To Be More Human - I can’t get tired of telling this: In the end… we are dealing with people!
  

Today I was reordering some footage I recorded during the last months and when I came across some of the videos I recorded with Tim O’Reilly immediately came up to my mind this article that I read on Techcrunch a while ago.

Today ended Open Innocell, a regional development project that we started with iTive in Finland last year. We had a virtual Q&A session in which Neville Hobson was answering to questions related to his excellent keynote “Building Genuine Relationships - 8 Critical Rules for Engagement With Your Audience Online”.

This is a keynote that I presented last month for Open Innocell a project we are running with iTive.net in Finland, but now that the recorded video track is available to be watched on demand I thought to share it also here with you.

• /Message: Google Real-Time Twitter Search… Sort Of - Bring real-time Twitter search directly into Google search results. Handy. Thanks for sharing Stowe.
• Social Media Decision Tree | chrisbrogan.com - It’s not all about the conversation. It’s not a matter of whether you get it or don’t.
  

• Social Media in Sixty Seconds - Micro Persuasion - Nice and easy
• The finger from Ryanair — NevilleHobson.com - Auchhh…bad bad bad move… Ryanair is definitely not moving well…
• Presenting social media in context — NevilleHobson.com - Great post by Neville about his presentation - Open Innocell p
  

iTive.net is an international agency specialized in digital marketing & strategy consulting. Read more about it here… We are based in Finland but work without frontiers here in the Internet! This is also why we are always more than happy to work and cooperate with other professionals world wide.

Janetti Chon released a great blog post that includes all the hot links from the Bloggers’ Roundtable  that we had with Tim O’Reilly, Jennifer Pahlka and Brady Forrest at Web 2.0 Expo Europe. In the post you’ll find also all the links to the videos I created for the session:
…via Janetti Chon - Web 2.0 Blog…

How can we measure a distributed web strategy? How can we quantify the ROI related to social media investments?…
…Here I’m thinking “How many times I heard questions like these ones, from CEOs, managers, etc.?”
So this is a great case study by Ted Murphy (Founder and CEO of Izea) that could help you in finding an answer to those questions mentioned above.

I’m a big fan of the series so it came up to my mind to celebrate a Happy Day for iTive.net!
We became official partner of Six Apart one of the world’s leading blogging software and services company.

via iTive.net:
By merging our expertise and resources with Six Apart we aim to a higher level of performance in order to help our clients in:

Live blogged session from DLD Conference (Munich, Germany)

Episode: VMC #119 - Robert Scoble on Open Data Practices
Remember when I asked if you had any question for LeWeb guests? Here’s Robert Scoble’s answer to David Orban’s question.

Episode: VMC #112 - Your Questions for Robert Scoble
Here I asked Robert the questions you sent me
In the video:

Episode: VMC #111 - Tell if Your Social Media Expert Is a Carpetbagger
Geoff wrote this great post. He gave me the inspiration for this video.
UPDATE: + Here’s my take on ‘Experts’.