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Best wishes for 2012

The New Year is upon us, resolutions for the coming months have been made and many will come to fruition but many are likely to be broken.  However, I hope to work harder and smarter during 2012, to continue to evangelise the benefits of the MultiValue technology and to ride on the opportunities that the New Year will no doubt bring.

I’ll be watching the path that the No/SQL movement takes and continue to keep OpenInsight on that agenda.  I’ll also be watching how business further utilises the cloud and help our OpenInsight and O4W users to benefit from those benefits.  I’ll also be watching how social media will continue to erode into our business processes and we’ll ride that wave as well.  I already have a growing list of updates that I need to make on my Facebook and LinedIn pages.  I have videos planned and goodness knows where Google+ and Twitter will take me this year.  In addition, there will be the ‘as yet’ unknown new opportunities that 2012 and will bring.

With plenty of unresolved issues from the last year (not least the Euro and more austerity measures to come) 2012 looks to be an interesting year.  That said, things are improving in the USA and Revelation US saw new opportunities presenting themselves and a marked improvement within their VARs performance towards the end of the year.  Let that continue and hopefully Europe and the rest of the EMEA region will follow in a few months time.

Anyway, I wish you, your colleagues and your business well for 2012.  Let the New Year bring you health and prosperity that lasts the whole year through.

For sometime, I have been an advocate of social media for getting more company and product exposure online.  Many of you will know that I use Twitter for just in time snippets of news, this blog for larger articles (news items, technical info, etc.) as they come to my attention, LinkedIn to get the Revelation brand noticed, alerts to see when people are talking about Revelation and OpenInsight, etc.

In recent months, we have seen many of the key online social media resources opening up opportunities to host company and product pages.  Revelation have several such pages, Sprezzatura has been running a tech blog for a while (providing a more technically deep resource than I could ever hope to achieve) and I’m pleased to find my alerts flagging up some of our VARs first steps into using social media.

Just recently, I have had alerts for Ardbrook’s (Ireland) LinkedIn company and products pages and also those for Merit Software (Wales).  Ardbrook are also making good use of their blog for news items

Both companies have also begun using Twitter, with Merit just announcing the forthcoming launch of their new website and with Ardbrook announcing their new LinkedIn pages as they were published.

Many organisations of all sizes are seeing the business benefits of these resources and it is good to see some of our clients embracing these new opportunities.  Oh, and it does not have to take over your life as there are a wealth of monitoring tools available to bring all of the information together.

Please comment below if your organisation uses any social media resources: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, a Blog, a YouTube channel, etc.

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