2009/08/28

What is Social Enterprises

Instead of establishing a NGO, my friend Boom build a social enterprises easily.

What is Social Enterprises? Wikipedia rocks again:

Social enterprises are social mission driven organizations which trade in goods or services for a social purpose. Their aim to accomplish targets that are social and environmental as well as financial is often referred to as having a triple bottom line. Social enterprises are profit-making businesses set up to tackle a social or environmental need. They often use blended value business models that combine a revenue-generating business with a social-value-generating structure or component.

Rather than maximising shareholder value, their main aim is to generate profit to further their social and environmental goals. Therefore some commentators describe them as 'not-for-profit' as their profits are not (at least primarily) distributed to financial investors. Others dislike the term as it suggests they have an unbusinesslike attitude.

about TBL triple bottome line: people, planet, profit
In John Elkington 's 1998 book Cannibals with Forks: the Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, TBL means economic, ecological and social.

2009/04/27

Google’s market share

Get this infor about how much market share that Google has in each market. It is interesting to see Google has under 30% share in China, Japan, South Korea, Hongkong and Ruassia. It seems Language matters.

Country Market Share Date Research Institute Source
Argentina 89.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Australia 87.81% Jun-08 Hitwise http://www.hitwise.com/press-center/hitwiseHS2004/us-google-70-percent-of-searches.php
Austria 88.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Belgium 96.00% Mar-09 comScore? http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:1mihicg_BXQJ:blog.werbeplanung.at/files/Google-Comscore/+Google+market+share+Belgium+comscore+OR+hitwise&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Brazil 89.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Bulgaria 80.00% Dec-07 Multilingual search http://www.e3internet.com/downloads/global-search-report-2007.pdf
Canada 78.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts—google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Chile 93.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts—google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
China 26.60% Oct-08 iResearch http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/
Colombia 91.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts—google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Czech Republic 34.50% Mar-09 http://vyhledavace.chose.cz/
Denmark 92.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Estonia 53.37% Jul-08 Gemius SA http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/
Finland 92.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
France 91.23% Feb-09 AT Internet Institute http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-moteurs/barometre-des-moteurs-fevrier-2009/index-1-1-6-163.html
Germany 93.00% Mar-08 http://linkspiel.de/index.php/marktanteil-google-in-deutschland-bei-93.html
Hong Kong 26.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Hungary 96.00% Aug-08 http://netkutatasok.blogspot.com/2008/08/gemiustraffic-internethasznlati-adatok.html
Iceland 51.00% Dec-07 http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/
India 81.40% Aug-08 comScore http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2400
Ireland 76.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Israel 80.00% 2007 http://www.searchengineoptimizationcompany.ca/seoblog/World%20Wide%20Web/search-engines/worldwide-search-engine-market-share-part-1/05012009
Italy 90.00% Feb-09 http://www.nicsrl.it/blog/il-mercato-online-italiano-e-google/
Japan 38.20% Jan-09 Nielsen/NetRatings http://www.ojobuscador.com/2009/03/10/yahoo-mantiene-su-popularidad-sobre-google-en-japon/
Korea, South 3.00% 2009 http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13185891&source=hptextfeature
Latvia 97.95% Jul-08 Gemius SA http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/
Lithuania 98.18% Aug-08 Gemius SA http://www.gemius.com/pl/archives/2008-08-22/01
Malaysia 51.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts—google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Mexico 88.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Netherlands 95.00% Dec-08 http://www.checkit.nl/nationalesearchenginemonitor.html
New Zealand 72.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts—google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Norway 81.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Poland 95.00% Q4 2008 Gemius SA http://pliki.gemius.pl/Raporty/2009/02_2009_Polski_internet_2008_2009.pdf
Portugal 94.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Puerto Rico 57.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Romania 95.21% Mar-09 statcounter.com http://gs.statcounter.com/?PHPSESSID=44a19a42c7ac4cc34b71adb6e3a54f50&chart_type=line&statType=Search+Engine&statType_hidden=search_engine&region=Romania&region_hidden=RO#search_engine-RO-daily-20080701-20090314
Russia 32.00% Jan-08 Spylog http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Singapore 57.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts—google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Slovakia 75.60% Dec-07 http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/
Spain 93.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Sweden 80.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Switzerland 93.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Taiwan 18.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/
Ukraine 72.42% Feb-09 Bigmir-Internet http://i.bigmir.net/index/UAnet_global_report_022009.pdf
United Kingdom 90.39% Dec-08 Hitwise http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/
United States 63.30% Feb-09 comScore http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2750
United States 72.11% Feb-09 Hitwise http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=101971
Venezuela 93.00% Jan-08 comScore http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/the-web-in-charts%E2%80%94google-vs-microsoft-yahoo-vs-china/

2009/04/24

答曹增辉-2.0的web和1.0的广告

我写了好长的留言哦,光顾写这个忘记时间了,上班要迟到了!居然还没发布上去!伤心了!
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我很喜欢你的blog,因为你一直在思考。
但我无法同意你这一篇blog所写的,因为你一篇blog抹杀了整个online marketing行业。而这个行业,在英美已经相当成熟,每天drive着千百万收入(保守的说),在中国刚开始发展的行业。本人不才,却也在本行业欧洲最大的公司里做了那么一小段时间,自认为有点说话权。
首先,网络广告就的形式,除了你能看到的那些text link,静态或flash的banner以外,还有很多形式,比如现在用的很好的product feed,search box(在travel行业广为应用,已经是必不可少的工具了),contextral link(很可能今后是twitter广告盈利的主要工具之一)。而更多的方式也在被挖掘,更好的融合在2.0的网站里,同时对1.0向下兼容。
其次,关于您说的3个媒介,其实在国外广告盈利已经成型,只是方式在继续发展:
1.blog。blog的确在很多国家不好做,像您说的,都是google adwords。不过blog在欧洲某一两个国家(以及我在我会写点东西说这它在这些国家怎么应用,写好了发链接给你)
2.SNS.facebook,linkedin,myspace是我关注下做的比较好的,对于我以上说的广告应用比较广。除了对最常见的各种banner应用很好以外,对简单的product feed也可以支持,对contextral link就更是无缝应用了
3.视频。youtube本身就是应用vedio作为广告,是网络广告里最新的技术(至少我这么认为)。现在提供视频广告跟踪和服务的公司越来越多,有些做的已经很成熟。而youtube的视频能非常容易的plugin到各大网站,对于需要打广告的advertiser和帮助打广告的affiliates来说,都是非常易用却很powerful的工具,这本身就非常符合2.0甚至是3.0的精神。youtube和myspace的广告盈利模式不仅已经应用于商业(music和film是最大的两块),连非盈利机构它都可以做,这是目前为止比其他方式更活跃更灵活的广告方式,非常有前景。

至于网络营销,也有很多方式:
affiliate marketing 联署营销
Campaign, display marketing
adwords
SEM
等等等等

不过无论如何,我能同意这还是个很年轻的行业,在欧洲正很好的发展,在中国只能算是起步阶段。大家一起努力吧;)

2009/04/23

Tripadvisor Launch Chinese domain today -- daodao.com

前两天上网闲逛是偶然看到tripadvisor有中国站,就心想这年头国外旅游网站都开始打国内的主意了,今天就看到官方的声明,说到到网正式上线。其英文网站,twitter和各大媒体均有报道。

知道这个网站还是因为它是我们公司的大 affiliate之一,第一印象是这年头咋这类型的网站这么多,在expedia,lastminute,cheapfights的笼罩之下居然成活的 还挺好。后来才从其他国家的同事那了解到,在瑞士等国家,人做的还挺好的,还是我们top5的affiliate,牛哄哄的。

不过我更感兴趣的是这些公司现在也瞄准了中国市场,我不知道他们是怎么样个心路历程:
1. 经济危机影响?经济危机都这么严重了,cost都cut成那样了,还死活砸钱到亚洲市场。过去一年多,我是亲眼见到所有travel行业的 affiliate program业绩刷刷刷往下掉的。performance base的都这样,那些为提高品牌知名度的cpc cpm就更别说了。
2. 直入大陆。大多数欧洲和美国公司都会从日本入手,然后香港新加坡台湾,然后大陆。让人tripadvisor还不走寻常路,直接来大陆市场拓展,难道真是 看好中国市场了?今天还看到E-Marker的一片调研报告,说整个09年广告投入增长预测被调整,US下降到-9.8%,UK下降到-7.1%(我还留 在这干嘛),而China也从10.9%下降到4.6%。无论如何,asia市场还算是不错的,也许基于这个原因,人才继续着向亚洲扩展的步伐吧。
3. 国内市场竞争。国内携程,elong,去哪儿做的各有特色,这个daodao该这么做?国际路线和国内路线双管齐下吗?国内旅游部分怎么和这些domestic的大头竞争呢?我不知道。我挽起袖子看好戏。
4。发展与增长。tripadvisor,或者daodao这样的发展,光靠organic的增长,盈利点似乎比较传统而单一,往往依靠别的方式。我好奇 它在国内如何做affililiate,会加入哪个network。 Zenox?OMG? 阿里妈妈?其他?我看好国内的affilaite marketing趋势,但始终认为它处在一个在摇篮的阶段。我不知道Zenox在国内做的怎样,恐怕affiliation不是主攻?但作为欧洲业界老 大的我们,迟迟不进大陆做affiliation的原因还是很多。 但有一点肯定,有tripadvisor这样的跨国affiliate进入国内,对整个affiliation的发展来说还是相当的好事 :)



碎碎念着,困了,打算去睡觉。
anyway,恭喜tripadvisor/daodao开张大吉,祝生意盈门,大展宏图!

2009/03/28

Google/Youtube for Charity

Google/youtube starts charity program, which worked very well on World Water Day

Although Youtube Nonprofit is only available for Charities registered in UK and US, I am still confident in its future in Asia and Africa. 

In my view, Chinese NGOs should make use this marketing tool to expand their brand image, drive traffic to their sites. Therefore more people will know and then participate these charity campaigns, even make donation online. By creating a profile on Youtube, YouKu or other video sharing providers, posting Videos or presentations, and embedding to NGO's website, more people will get to know charity campaigns all around the world. They will subscribe, follow and participate eventually.

I am still thinking about the Nongjiale project I worked on 2 years ago. An improved model is forming in my mind. Hope I can work something out in a near future. 

2009/03/24

Today's reading -- 数字游牧(Digital Nomads)


数字游牧(Digital Nomads) 是一种基于游牧主义和分享主义的 未来生活方式,无论你身在何处,无论周边有任何情景,你都可以自由地与这个世界联接起来。你分享,有人会在远方接续呼应;你倾听,将有最佳的信息传递而 来。你如同参与到一个高阶的社会性大脑中参与共同思考,所以物理位置只作为一个参数,传统边界更将作朽物。每个人都将在新的方式下获得自身的最大化,生活 将无所困扰。

Digital Nomads is a future way of life based on Nomadism and Sharism. No matter where you are and what circumstances you are in, you are free to link up with the world. When you share, someone from afar would respond. When you listen, there will be the best information transmit. It is as if you are participating in collaborative thinking at a higher level of the social brain. Hence physical location is only a parameter and traditional boundaries will render as irrelevant. Everyone will be able to maximize themselves in this new way of life, and life will be worry-free.

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由于目前国内 BLOG 系统鱼龙混杂,以及国内 IDC 环境的特殊原因等种种因素,促使我们来做这样一件事情,那就是帮更多的有价值的 BLOGGER 建立更加独立的 BLOG 平台。

在我们所致力推广的 BLOG 独立平台上,您再也不用接受 BSP 的审/查,再也不用担心你的言论会被某些部门阉割,从此你将真正畅游于网络海洋之中。

“数字游牧”计划完全在合法的商业环境下操作,您再也不必为繁琐漫长的备案所拖累。

“数字游牧”计划采用开源或者广泛接受的 Blog 工具和主机服务,并支持更多最新的 Blog 技术,包括:

  • Blogger.com, Movable Type, WordPress
  • Dreamhost, Media Temple 等等
  • OpenID, Microformat 等等
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