Emily Chang - eHub

Emily Chang - eHub: "TaskDriver Though not strictly a web-based application, this project management application brings enterprise-level task management to the browser via a thin client and PHP/MySql. Allows your team to log in through their browser, assign and manage tasks, create reports, and control email notifications. Open source software available as a free download from their website. The current version is a stable release and promises an easy install and setup. You must sign up for their newsletter to participate in the version 2.0 beta. (Link: TaskDriver)"

Helge: Get more information from the link that takes you to the blog.

Professional Enterprise Blogging

Back then, when we started to embrace the net, many people really didn't know much about us. Finland is located at the periphery of this flat world. We still are a small company. Building a brand and a name is hard work and takes time.

Four (blogger) to ten years (html) of blogging has resulted in an increasing traffic to our blogs and home pages. There have been ups and downs, starting early have disadvantages. I guess I was writing for myself for several years. There weren’t many readers in the beginning. Many bloggers have experienced the same.

Things have changed. The traffic improves and we do have economical benefits from our efforts. Irja started blogging this year and has been successful as well.

Yes, in addition to kknet.fi, a number of other blogs, we run digitalvillages.net. I try to think what people, clients, partners and friends would like to know about our work, our services and us.

Writing to a big global audience has taken us to develop different channels for different themes.

This is a space where to talk about Digital Villages, high-tech, networking, social media, collaboration and what's on my mind, what I'm dealing with, etc. My writings may be business related, it may not, technology oriented, Web 2.0 related.

I will post here when having something interesting to say. The next goal is to write better stories to attract readers and to increase the traffic to our blogs and sites. The Internet Traffic Map tells who is reading this blog (100 latest visitors).

It was in the early 90's when we started to become involved with the Internet, when our first ideas about global networking started to evolve.

At one point along my online journey, I became aware about the possibilities of online journalism. Nevertheless, it did take quite a while to get down to useful and profitable applications. I guess that was around 1997 when we started Wiirila Werkossa Wiikottain.

Another aspect has been the evolution of our Virtual Organization. We have extended our network to span all over the globe.

The product development has taken longer than I anticipated at the turn of the century. The dot.com boom and blast didn't affect us. We were working on things that didn't hurt us.

"Genius isn’t anything more
than elegant application
of common sense."

Net tools for SME's - CRM and project management

SME companies can produce tools for the Internet users. There is still plenty of room for improvement in the field of CRM, project management and integration of information. We've 25 million companies in Europe alone and globally, I don't have a clue, but let's suppose 100 million companies.

Most of them are SME's with need to manage their business better in a networked economy. The Enterprise 2.0 idea is in a very early stage of development. Virtual Organization is a great idea but very few understand, what they are all about.

Here we have business opportunties. Tools to make the entrepreneurial life easier and global operations more manageable. There are very few companies like Nokia. Most are small! How to make the little man / organization more productive.

Tools can be sold like screwdrivers or black and deckers. Microsoft has been selling their tools. The Google model is different, but there is still space for traditional business models. Or am I completely wrong?