PitchEngine Asia

August 6, 2009 By

As regular readers and subscribers will know, one of the things I do these days is look after the Australia and New Zealand market for social media release platform PitchEngine.

Some exciting news for me this week on the PitchEngine front, with particularly practical implications for the many Australian and NZ companies marketing into China and the greater Asian region, was the announcement of a number of new services via PitchEngine Asia, including the launch of a new translation service to enhance the reach and impact of social media releases produced on the PitchEngine platform.

Together with the announcement of a new partnering agreement with Reuters China, which will enable the provision of a value-adding service to obtain much greater distribution for any PitchEngine subscriber going into or already in the China market.

For a quick scan, here are the key points in the media release on these and related developments (points lifted from the social media release, of course!):

  • PitchEngine, Inc., opens Asia office, launches new site
  • New partnership with Reuters China delivers unprecedented distribution to PitchEngine users
  • SMR translation capabilities include 12 languages
  • PitchEngine offers SMR distribution via Baidu, the third largest search provider

The full release is here – there is a button to click so as to see the release in full screen mode.


PitchEngine Adds Global Translation Services

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PitchEngine for Australia and New Zealand

July 10, 2009 By

pelogo140The main news for my company and me in the past week was the announcement of my appointment as social media release PitchEngine’s Manager for Australia and New Zealand.

The announcement was, of course, via a PitchEngine social media release. A feature of the release is that it came not from PitchEngine HQ in the USA, but from Guangzhou, China based company CFM which is the base of operations for PitchEngine Asia. The full release includes a link to a 14 minute conversation about the announcement, between my Guangzhou-based colleague, CFM Chief Exec Lonnie B. Hodge, and me.

You can also read the full release from the box below: note the “full screen” button for greater ease of reading.

Having spent hours in the past, constructing social media releases manually, I really love the ease and speed of the process with PitchEngine, as well as all sorts of other great features. So representing PitchEngine in my part of the world is a pretty cool thing to be able to do.

(More about PitchEngine, in a recent post on my Thinking Home Business blog)

If you have any questions about how PitchEngine works and how it might help your business or organization, please ask – in the comments or, more privately, on the contact page: if I don’t have the answer I’ll make sure we get an answer from someone who does.

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Chris Lampard, Corporate Express: Interview

March 5, 2009 By

At Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum last week I interviewed several people who were presenting on the day. The first was Chris Lampard from Corporate Express, a company which has gone through a lot of change and is into Enterprise 2.0 and social media in a big way.

Corporate Express specialises in company incorporations, trusts and company secretarial services. Services we all need at one time or another but for which many of us do not have in-house expertise or for which it simply makes sense to outsource.

Chris Lampard is Business Technology Consulting Manager and as you will see and hear from the video interview he has an inspiring “big picture” view of how Enterprise 2.0 is helping his firm and can support it in the future.

He explains that Corporate Express :

  • has some 2,500 employees in Australia and New Zealand
  • in 45 different locations
  • has had some 70 different mergers/acquisitions over 15 years

They are using a SAP solution, providing chat rooms, collaboration and wikis.

My apologies for the fact that there is some extraneous noise. We had gone outside to get away from the pre-seminar conversational noise inside. However, just when you think the banging and clashing offscreen is getting a bit too much, it dies down. Trust me, I’m a social median. :)

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WordFrame Partners with Webarts for Asia-Pacific

April 1, 2008 By

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ITBrix/ WordFrame announced last week, via PRWeb, the appointment of my company as solution providers for WordFrame – with a special emphasis on our Asia Pacific region.

I’m excited about this. In various forums and conversations and on this and other blogs I have been promoting the use of social media in business for a while. With this new partnership I can go beyond the theory and exhortation and help companies and organizations more directly with a product I know works, is value for money and will scale.

As part of the announcement of the partnership, I posted my version of a “social media release” on the Webarts company site and am including the core information here also for good measure.

Copying of the content of this post is encouraged :) .

Summary:The Webarts Company Pty Ltd (Webarts) has been appointed by Colorado based ITBrix/Wordframe as their partner for China, South East Asia and Australasia. There has been a steady increase in enquiries and interest in the WordFrame platform globally, so ITBrix needed to provide a local marketing and support presence. The Webarts Company was selected because of our expertise in the enterprise social media space, coupled with our broad industry knowledge and depth of experience.

Current product, WordFrame Community 1.0, provides:

  • an out-of-the-box solution that allows teams to create Web communities for information sharing and document collaboration, benefits that help increase individual and team productivity
  • is based on Microsoft asp.net 2.0 Framework
  • includes IT resources such as community workspaces, blogs, user profiles, e-mail, document management, wiki, audio and video publishing, all secure and easily managed via a feature-rich administration shell
  • enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently, as well as connect to and work with others more productively.

Contacts:

Webarts CEO Des Walsh, Gold Coast, Australia
Phone Australia: +1 7 5536 5658
Skype: deswalsh
email: wordframe@gmail.com
Twitter: deswalsh
web: www.webarts.net.au

WordFrame CEO George Athannassov, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone USA: +1 719 332 5062
web: www.wordframe.com

Key Points of partnership announcement:

  • The Webarts Company (Webarts), Gold Coast, Australia, appointed by ITBrix LLC, with HQ in Colorado Springs, as partner for China, South East Asia and Australasia
  • Increase in enquiries and interest in the WordFrame platform globally
  • Webarts CEO is Des Walsh, social media consultant, business coach, author and international speaker
  • Walsh is also Asia Pacific consultant to Guangzhou, China group Culture Fish Media, specialists in cultural SEO

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Quotes

Des Walsh, Webarts CEO quotes:

“I had direct experience of using the platform through being a member of the Social Media Collective blogging group, which uses WordFrame to drive its aggregation.”

“WordFrame is a really neat collaboration solution, covering blogs, wikis, social networking, group messaging, document management, and RSS feed aggregation. It is also highly scalable, so it is a very effective solution for a wide range of companies and organizations. Its range of functions, combined with it being developed using Microsoft standard technology makes it very attractive as a corporate solution.”

George Athannassov, ITBrix CEO quote:

“We are delighted to be teaming up with Webarts and Des. His company can help us increase our sales and support coverage in the Far East and Australasia, and provide our customers with the consulting support we need. His consulting background, and knowledge of the enterprise 2.0 marketplace will be an asset to the team.”

Links

PRWeb:
ITBrix / WordFrame Appoints Collaboration Solutions Providers The Webarts Company as China, South East Asia and Australasia
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb777494.htm

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The Webarts Company site: http://www.webarts.net.au

ITBrix/Wordframe site: http://www.wordframe.com

More if needed on Des Walsh

Walsh has 20 years of experience in business communications, corporate training and executive coaching, including a strong focus on web-based initiatives and, more recently, social media solutions. He has provided strategic advice and consulting in the corporate, government and university enterprise sectors. Prior to establishing his own company, Des was a senior government executive with development and management responsibilities for multi-million dollar federal and state programs.

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For company, association, or government agency enquiries, please use the Contact form, or the email address wordframe@gmail.com (this goes directly to Des Walsh and all business enquiries will be treated in confidence), or call on one of the numbers listed above.

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