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I really am enjoying the Orange #Live11 conference – not only as an opportunity to learn more about the challenges of delivering on demand, global customer centric services in an agile way -  but also because its an opportunity for Organic Development to support and showcase our own on demand, customer centric, global technology platform – the Orange Business Live Mashup at events.orange-business.com

The platform allows you to see all the content created in and around Orange #Live11 in one place – with video, blog, twitter and a vast array of other fees being delivered to one central location.

It then allows you to package who you consume that content – by theme or event, via email or social media and at a frequency to suit you.

It’s a unique and powerful tool – and we are very excited at this opportunity to showcase it. Its great seeing people experiencing an event in an immersive multimedia way online in real time – just like I will be at the event – Plus I’m on hand to provide support if necessary!

Munich! Home of Lederhosen, Bratwurst, Bavarian clog dancing and of course really really big beers – and for three days only home to me!

Okay there is more to Munich than load of silly stereotypes. It’s a stunning city with a vibrant culture and of course the home of BMW cars. Its also the venue for Orange Business #Live11 which I will be attending.

If you don’t know, #Live11 is an annual event held By Orange Business for its customers. It brings together the leading IT decision makers form over 200 global market leaders in one place for a few days to evaluate the state of the IT industry, network – and of course have a good time!

I’m currently en route to Heathrow from Sunny Devon and perusing the agenda for the next few days ahead and three themes strike me as being central themes to the conference:

1. Agility

• Dealing with changing technology and demand, specifically the ability for IT services to be dynamic as the way people use IT changes.
• IT departments helping companies to deliver services direct to customers through dynamic ever evolving digital channels
• Implementing IT in this agile environment: Specifically acting more as a technology consultant rather than a systems builder, because as soon as you build the system it will need changing. Learning to outsource effectively is a key part of this.
• Managing people in this fast changing world.

2. Global

• Providing a global IT infrastructure in a dynamic world with vastly different localised requirements.
• Identifying emerging markets and delivering IT services within them
• Preparing for a more volatile and uncertain future.

3. Customer-centric

• Customer centric thinking at the heart of IT delivery.
• IT as a customer facing department: Delivering services direct to consumer at the sharp end

Whilst the details are relate to specific challenges faced by IT decision makers, the three themes themselves are much broader – affecting business as a whole and providing vital challenges to corporate decision makers across the board.

As technology allows more on demand services to develop and mobile connectivity drives global access to these services, a new generation of consumers and business people are entering the market who not only prefer their services delivered in real time, personally to them, but who also DEMAND it.

Link Building, like all SEO, is constantly changing. Something that worked in 2005 may not be as effective nowadays, so it’s important for any link builder to constantly read new blogs and articles on the subject. 

Luckily, there are a lot of great new articles on link building by some of the important people in the industry. You can set up a Google Alert that emails them to you. You can also do a search on blog search engines as well as social networking sites. This post shows you a few recent blogs and articles that I’ve found very useful.

The world of mobile apps is an ever growing world of possibilities. WIth new features and functionality being added to the mix all the time, the possibilities are endless. So why should you start building a mobile app? Well, how long is a piece of string and that should give you the answer!

A mobile app can be/do just about anything these days, from a simple egg timer to a home automation system, from games like Angry Birds to augmented reality navigation, all neatly packaged with a nice little icon that sits in the palm of your hand.

So the question is, how hard can it be?

Someone once said to me everytime you publish an infographic on the internet, a LOLCat dies.

If so, I just killed nine of them.

This is selection of infographics conceived, created and built by the super awesome team at Organic Development. They are good for SEO, link building and people like to look at them. They also communicate a lot of infomation in a nice way.

Click here for nine Infographics by Organic Development

Have a good weekend.