Balthazar is pioneering the use of Social Networking in Business as part of its business tools utilized by employees of its customers to share experiences from diverse professional fields. Bwize which was previously Mnemos 2.0 was demonstrated by Xavier Rodriguez in a recent interview on billaut show. Xavier discussed how Bwize is marketed by Balthazar and the business model behind this outstanding management consulting social network.
During the interview Beezbox’s Solofo Rafeno highlighted the features on version 1.0 of Beezbox and announced the release of Beezbox version 2.0.
Since this morning, we have launched our beta test process.
First feedback: it’s cool but design should be improved. So we will do it.
As a reminder, it will be our Entry Level solution for SMBs, Entrepreneurs, SOHO and Non-Profit Organizations.
So what you gonna have inside?
DIY and Instant business-oriented social media service generation,
Comprehensive multi-objects UGC service handling both multimedia contents and office documents,
Collaborative Intranet/Extranet 2.0 services that let members working not only on videos, photos, articles and audios but also office documents such as Word, Excel, PDF, Powerpoint. This is unique on the market as of today
Facebook, MSN, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Digg, MS-Live data exchange
and last not least, business class applications called, Beez Apps, such as Discussion 2.0, Community Agenda 2.0, Q&A 2.0, FAQ 2.0, Poll 2.0, etc ….
We bring to our customers a cost effective Customer DB creation and maintenance process by tapping into facebook, LinkedIn members and other mainstream social media networks DBs.
Our development team has done a great job during these last weeks; we will be launching shortly the beta-test phase of Beezbox V2 (called Communitybox Project as well) .
So what is this?
With Beezbox V2, we will provide a self-service and instant Social Media Creation services for businesses.
Therefore Marketing, Communication, Customer Care managers and also Small Business owners will be able to setup instantly their corporate social networking services for tieing up with their customers, partners and prospects.
What for?
Social networking services are part of people life these days for reading breaking news, keeping contact with friends and colleagues, providing inputs and requests to businesses, brands and governments (look at Obama Administration new services !).
No less than 500 millions internet and mobile users are today connected to these services.
Beezbox aims bringing these people to brands and governments through innovative and collaborative social media based services that will let these organizations:
Speed up new business opportunity generation
Reduce customer and citizens support process operation cost
Develop company asset by setting up always self-updated customers database
For what business value?
Attracting mainstream social networking services members from Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn to join Beezbox based brands services will not only increase these brands databases but also make them always updated (users do maintain their records at no cost for Beezbox customers).
If you just take in account assigned budget for buying prospects databases and their maintenance, we are speaking about tens to hundreds thousands USD here; and this is a permanent yearly process.
What services to brands’ customers and fans?
Beezbox comes with well integrated User Generated Content (UGC) services along with business oriented collaborative services:
Market’s most comprehensive UGC services that let users (brands’ customers and fans) create, upload, share, comment, note and broadcast (buzz out Beezbox platform to Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, RSS, …) any type of contents: not only articles, photos, videos and audio recording but also office documents such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files,
Integrated Extranet 2.0 services that let users (customers, partners, employees) collaborating on ad-hoc projects with a Community Agendaand events manager
Business oriented e-services (Beezbox Apps) such as user created Debate Roomsuser created Surveys
Social media accounts aggregator that lets users have two-way communications with their private and professional accounts within Facebook, LinkedIn, …
Powerful friends and contacts invitation process to join Beezbox based brands services. These friends and contacts are from mainstream social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut, …
and more Beezbox App apps to come in near future
If you are a Marketing, Communication or Customer Support Manager or a Business Owner and you do want to be part of our beta-testers community,
Mnemos 2.0, the social network where professionals share their tips and knowledge by Balthazar recently launched a new version for its users. The new version comes as improvement of the previous release. It presents members with faster navigation to answers to questions from the case database, which is a unique feature on mnemos using vidoes cases tagged situations.
Members can now access cases directly from their profile page. Other improvements include bookmarking of articles and documents allowing members greater flexibility to reasearch and consult useful information at anytime.
Letche recently has expanded Beezbox Enterprise Social Networking platform into the African market. On Friday, we signed up a new Enterprise 2.0 project with a reputable banking institution. “We look forward to transforming the manner in which business is done with this lead”. A beta version of this service will be launched in a few weeks. For Letche and Beezbox it is going to be a pleasant experience expanding and exploring this emerging new market. We are looking forward to launching the first full fledge ‘Banking Social Network’ in Africa to join the global names like Wesabe, Zopa, etc…Paulette, Letche Blog
In the last 365 days Beezbox has been moving fast with the marketing and implementing of Enterprise 2.0 using Beezbox platform since insception. 2009 celebrate its first year.
A Recap of 2008
Regardless of the global credit crunch in 2008, we are proud to still be at the top of our game. However, we have challenged pundits’ vision. Beezbox has continued to achieve performance, in its technology and programming, in its customer relationship and on its innovation and creativity in social media and e-services
In one year, we have considerably grown, after launching our first internal application, Beetnic to showcase our savoir-faire; we rapidly got investors and innovation scouts attention.
March 2008 celebrated the release of Beezbox Platform V1, followed by 2 strategic customers projects. Subsequently, more social media projects joined the list. At the end of the year we launched our cutting edge social networking packages to fit our customer’s business process demands, and of course we have continually updated our technology and we will keep doing that throughout 2009.
2009-Our Activity Filled Year
We look forward to a lot projects in 2009 as we are branching into Africa and the Asian Pacific region. Social Media and e-services are now becoming a must worldwide, and Beezbox is proud to be a dynamic part of this movement.
Web 2.0, Social Networks, E-services, all these terms are now becoming familiar words to the internet community. Interestingly, as one of the only company in Europe to propose high level of customization in web 2.0, Beezbox offers you real expertise in this field and promises you the right application to enter this world.
Solofo Rafeno, Beezbox founder will be lecturing a conference on Enterprise 2.0 for the INSEAD Alumni. Topics will be about social media business benefits and best practices review. If you are in Paris at this time you are welcome to join us.
Beezbox’s Customer Experience
Our first customer Balthazar, a Paris based management consulting and executives education firm, having launched the first ever “best management practices sharing services, Mnemos2.0 website, has enjoyed good response from its users. The methodology for better management is based on videos, and having a web 2.0 platform has offered the team at Balthazar the best way to share and show this content, enabling people to research what they want, and to exchange comments and documents. The social site is developing really fast. Private communities are being built for big companies to have their private training e-communities for management executives.
Footemotion is developing rapidly and attracting media’s attention with their unique concept. France Television FR3 had an exclusive interview with the team. They have leveraged the new Beezbox 3G Mobile Video Live upload worldwide unique feature. Today every Footemotion member could act as an anchor and broadcast live his/her local football match. One of their protégé, Sean, won the Freestyle Football World Cup in Brazil in 2008; you can follow all his « adventures » on Footemotion.
What ’s More for 2009?
As for the team back here at Beezbox, we are continually researching and developing new products and services, after the launch of our five packages;
CRM 2.0, for improved customer relationship management with added socialization as key
E-City 2.0, provides local and regional social and economic programs support and operation
Fans 2.0, get the best of your fans on a social platform that let you secure an always growing and auto-updated members database
Extranet 2.0, for a secure collaborative business and multimedia documents sharing services
University 2.0, to connect student and staff together for a better learning and cost effective administration
In 2009, we plan to launch our community service, Communibox, which will enable Soho, SMB and Nonprofit Organizations create their own Social Network in a few clicks, at an affordable budget.
Expansion of our global presence is key for us in 2009. Africa, Australia and New Zealand can now enjoy Beezbox products and services.
Africa region:
Australia and New Zealand region:
What next?
We aim to bring our solutions worldwide very quickly with worldclass support quality, during the first quarter of 2009 we will expand to reach Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Stay tuned and watch out for the launch of our Communibox!
Footemotion’s social network is rocking the webspace and airwaves in France. Launched on Beezbox platform in 2008, Footemotion’s approach to employing social networking in business has attracted the attention of many and more recently the media. France Television (FR3) met with Footemotion at their La Souterraine head quarters in Central France. FR3 was interested in showcasing the unique concept Footemotion created through its social network and media platform powered by Beezbox.
Footemotion focuses its business on bringing together young football amateur players and kids interested in the game, parents, coach, and club administrator to share the fun around football. Running its own unique online community is helping Footemotion achieve this business goal.
In addition to that, Footemotion partners with professional football players, and also with young talents, such as Sean, world champion 2008 football freestyler. Learn more about Sean on Footemotion.
Petit déjeuner Club Télécom - Le Web 2.0 et les réseaux sociaux au service de l’entreprise avec Solofo RAFENO, CEO & Founder de Beezbox
Wednesday 21st January 2009
Le Club Télécom animé par Christophe Faurie (MBA 93J),
Bruno Dumont (MBA 86J) et Fabien Astic (MBA 06J)
Le Web 2.0 et les réseaux sociaux
au service de l’entreprise
Avec Solofo RAFENO CEO & Founder de Beezbox
L’industrie des médias, poussée par la montée des réseaux sociaux, a dû repenser ses moyens d’opérer et commence à surfer sur la vague du web 2.0. Les réseaux sociaux changent aussi la manière générale dont les professionnels font des affaires et gèrent leur clientèle. Plus qu’un effet de mode, c’est un phénomène mondial, le nombre d’internautes utilisant ces services ne cessant d’augmenter.
Qu’est-ce-que l’Entreprise 2.0? En quoi les outils communautaires en ligne peuvent-ils améliorer la relation avec les partenaires internes, externes, et avec les clients? En quoi consistent ces outils? Représentent-ils un enjeux pour attirer les meilleurs employés de demain?
Solofo RAFENO, CEO & Founder de Beezbox, nous propose de faire une point sur ce nouveau modèle économique de l’internet et de la téléphonie mobile.
Enterprise 2.0 is gradually moving into the African market and many people are eager to know about its take up. Startups Nigeria meet up with me recently on this global moving topic.
Here’s my recent interview with Loy Okezie from Startups Nigeria. Loy sure had interesting questions about E2.0 take up in Africa and Nigeria in particular. Let me know your thoughts on this. Feel free to drop me a comment.Paulette, Letche Blog
As we come to the end of 2008 in a couple of hours, the team at Beezbox would like to thank you for your interest in Beezbox. For us at Beezbox it was an interesting year. Here’s a recap:
We did a lot of campaign that got many of you to learn about us. We intend to carry out more campaigns in 2009.
2008 saw the launch of two major social networks - Mnemos 2.0 and Footemotion. Our launch of Footemotion got a number of feedbacks which was very impressive.
Our 5 unique social networking packages were also launched. We’re looking forward to see more new clients in 2009 build their social network based on our Beezbox packages designed for different enterprises.
Beezbox website saw another revamp, allowing you get more information on our services and products.
Beezbox online customer service was launched to provide real time support and feedback mechanism to customers, social site members and visitors.
Beezbox is expanding its market into different regions and more importantly riding Web 2.0 in business in the right direction. Just like you all out there, we are looking forward to a great experience in 2009. So till we meet again in 2009, from I and the team here at Beezbox we say THANK YOU for riding with us.
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