Like any television series, we thought it wise Spoiler alert lest those who are following, it does not want to know that 2011 is over and we know roughly how it will be.
The truth is that this has been a tough year that has tested many. We had to learn new forms of communication, undertake new challenges, accept new jobs that we never thought we would. We had to struggle to find balance between pursuing dreams and surrender to the obvious reality and decide where we want to transform or to what extent can we adapt to it. This year we learned a little more on solidarity, that which is passed from hand to hand to your same height and people we did not expect.
This year we have learned new synonyms for the word EFFORT. We have found the courage to follow when there were days when all seemed so complicated and not get to those goals that we set ourselves at the beginning of the year.
And yet here we are. Overcome fears, working, creating, thinking, feeling, sharing. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
So close your eyes and rest a little. We deserve it. We will dream of this new year begins, so that when, let us open your eyes and be ready to make all those dreams. You will also be a difficult year, but perhaps precisely fulfill those dreams seem so impossible when, will taste much sweeter and make us feel more proud of ourselves and our achievements, no matter their size. Are ours.
Going for 2012! There they will be waiting to cross it!
A hug.
Mentat team.
Lisset Meizoso Vazquez, Luis Torrado Guerro Rodriguez and Juan Ignacio Tejada
Today has been filed with the media in Madrid, at the headquarters of red.es, the Guide to Good Practice for Free Bid Developments by Local Government. This is the first product generated in the environment Alial project, whose aim is that local hire, use, sharing and reuse free solutions based on the technical conditions of tendering them.
In the text have been present Sebastián Muriel Smith, CEO of red.es (public company under the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade), Pablo Gomez, President of ASOLIF (National Federation of Software Libre) and Miguel Jaque, Managing Director of CENATIC (National Center for the Application of ICT-based Open Source).
The expected result is to improve the current dynamics of technology procurement by the Spanish councils, to ensure it is technically, legally and procedurally feasible to share their solutions and thus help to improve the efficiency of their investments in technology.
- The aim is that local hire, use and share free solutions based on the technical conditions of tendering them.
- This guide is the first of the products generated in the project environment Alial, and is available for download:
Read the highlights of what was said by those present, and download the Guide to Good Practice for Free Bid Developments by HERE Local Government.
Source: CENATIC
So with 20 days in advance, with this brief message and without anesthesia, the Andalusian has canceled the Free Software conference this year in Malaga .
This news, of course has not been received gladly among companies as they have now made some investments that can not be recovered.
Luckily, ASOLIF , the National Federation of Free Software Enterprises will hold its fourth meeting, not canceled and I leave your message here and links to sign up all interested parties.
We do not release: IV meeting of Software ASOLIF Free on October 28 in Malaga
The National Federation of Software Libre (ASOLIF) said their companies back in July of this year to celebrate our Fourth Meeting ASOLIF Business of Free Software by the Open Source World Conference ( OSWC'10 ) in so that both events take advantage of synergies. This conference, organized by the Andalusian Government would strengthen its commercial aspect to the presence of 75 of our companies, while ASOLIF would take the action to solve many of the logistical problems arising from such events. On paper it looked like a winning relationship.
The sudden cancellation of the event , only 20 days of its conclusion, has been a blow to companies, since much of the investment is recovered. Not only are the costs incurred in traveling and staying, but the work related to the preparation of the content to submit, commercial work, the merchandising, etc.. In short, to a large extent, a significant saving of public money involved in the failure to hold the OSWC'10 rests on the losses inflicted to the sector, especially SMEs.
Andalusian companies clumped around Andalibre and other entities and actors related to Free Software, deserve all the support we can offer from elsewhere in Spain by our organization. Taking the challenge to pick up the baton left by the Junta de Andalucía, the Federation will continue with its plan and will hold its Fourth Meeting ASOLIF Business of Free Software in Málaga on October 28.
Moreover, the usual activities of a domestic nature, we will add a public action broadcast on October 27 for displaying products and projects, discuss relevant issues on the industry today and interact with organizations, teachers, technicians, community development and Free Software enthusiasts. Soon announce the location and content.
Together they will be easier than solo, therefore, please join our public mailing list to assist us in this action. There will be room for everyone.
The open source advocates today celebrated a festival to encourage the use of free software, which have a public code and can be copied, modified and distributed without restriction.
More than 500 teams of people from 120 countries have organized events around the world to celebrate this September 20 International Day of Free Software. The commemoration has been held since 2004 to honor those who develop programs and open systems, to promote their use and knowledge and to promote dialogue on rights in the information society, digital inclusion and transparency in the selection of software.
As reported today 20minutos.es, free software are defined by giving its users four basic powers, says the Free Knowledge Foundation. It is free to use the program for any purpose, to examine how it works and adapt it to their needs (access to source code is a precondition) to redistribute copies so you may help others, and to improve the program and to make public improvements, so that the whole community benefits. The free nature of the programs is not indispensable, although many are associated with this type of software. Among the free programs available on the network are, for example, three Internet browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Google's new product, and Opera.
Regarded as the father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee , has called for free access to the Internet around the world, as it considers it an engine of progress and is as important as health care or access to clean water.
Ep - Five days - Madrid - 16/09/2010
Berners-Lee has used his speech at the Nokia World Conference to appeal for those who do not have access to the network because he said that only a fifth of the world population has access to the web.
In this regard, he stated he would like to see that everyone has a broadband connection "default" because it believes that the network can be used to give people access to essential services like health, as recorded ' Portaltic 'by' BBC '.
"Presumably you must first get access to clean water, then health care, and then there is the luxury of the internet, but it is not. The web can be a tool for achieving health care, "he explained.
Openbravo Launches QuickStart for quick implementation of ERP systems on free software
- New processes, reporting and configuration wizards streamline operations -
Barcelona (Spain) and Boston (Massachusetts), September 9, 2010. Openbravo , the leading company in developing ERP solutions based open source Web environment, announced the launch of a new version of Openbravo QuickStart, a solution of rapid ERP implementation, designed to meet the needs of SMEs.
QuickStart 2 builds on the proven success of its predecessor to provide optimized implementations of standard core business processes from order to payment, from purchasing to payment reconciliation reports and bank accounts. Its price, based on a subscription model, and its implementation in the cloud facilitate SMEs access to the fundamental advantages of the integrated management of companies (the automation and optimization of the processes of accounting, sales orders, inventory and procurement ) without the high costs and the lengthy implementation periods of traditional systems.
This new solution further reduces implementation times for businesses through its configuration wizards, pre-configured processes and improved the management of the charts of accounts, making and receiving of payments or the recording and reporting of sales and taxes.
QuickStart 2 also incorporates the new module for advanced management of accounts receivable and accounts payable of Openbravo, a complete payment management system equipped with a more user-friendly interface that provides a clear view of the cah-flow and automates and controls the payment processing and bank reconciliation.
Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo , said: "In this economy, companies must act quickly and provide quality financial reporting. Openbravo QuickStart 2 gives small and medium enterprises with a solution fast implementation and easy to adapt, use and update. This new offering puts the cash flow of vital importance for any business, as an important matter, and has financial structures and processes that are ready to use them accessible to businesses all critical business information they need. "
Author: By Julio Cesar Fernandez and Apple .
Exiter is the name of this new invention from Apple and that comes from the hands of the web Pantently Apple. The invention shows something like the concept already used by another application that is not Apple. We refer to Bump , this great application that just shake two iPhones or Android, both connect and exchange data securely (including from one to another without being two of the same operating system).
The patent shows a system for exchanging information, wirelessly and securely between two different devices that could be not only iPhone, but iPod, Macbooks, Blackberry, cameras and even medical equipment. Additionally, this technology would apply to a new type of device that Apple classified as a bike computer, which could refer to the latest Apple patent the smart bike.
We received so much publicity every day, so many brands that try to sell their products, it is time that we have installed a spam filter ourselves to ignore everything that we consider ordinary and generally unoriginal, pointless or completely unnecessary for our lives. And here comes the time where creativity needs to be integrated of truth in advertising, where imagination has to go beyond itself and surprise, and for that, is the guerrilla marketing.
Forget about prejudice, stereotypes, constraints and stomp. You have to propose things that offended, that somehow, break than expected and attention, that is what has created the marketing.
The term was coined Guerrilla Marketing in 1984 by Jay Conrad Levinson in a book with the same name. Here, Levinson gives tips and aggressive weapons for use by small businesses with limited financial resources.
Environmental marketing characteristics, described by the same Levinson are the following:
- It is designed for small businesses on a budget.
- Should be focused on human psychology, rather than experience. Experience is an acquired skill through repetition and perseverance to accomplish a task. Guerrilla marketing is about creating something new.
- Instead of money, the main investment is the imagination, time and effort itself. It's cheap, but requires who does it.
- You must create new relationships, but focus on those already created. 80% of profits come from 20% of customers. Generally these are the ones that already have brand loyalty and repeat purchases also are one of the best marketing tools.
- The use of traditional marketing and technology to get the message across. Give use all available resources, guerrilla marketing is not acting alone. Need a good platform from which sustained.
Openbravo: web-based ERP solution for small and medium enterprises
Openbravo ERP solution in a web environment for small and medium enterprises has exceeded 1.7 million downloads. During the first half of 2010, the monthly number of new downloads have increased significantly, to accumulate a 320 percent increase in just five months.
It has also seen a strong increase in demand Openbravo Professional Edition, the commercial version of Openbravo ERP solution that enables small and medium enterprises have a lower cost of the benefits of this solution in Free Software, such as unique functionality , professional support, guarantees and access to updates and improvements certified. The modules and extensions of the ERP solution, available through Openbravo Exchange (marketplace solutions and services for production environments, designed as extensions of Openbravo ERP), have also registered a notable increase. Currently has 160 different modules, 40 percent more than in early 2010. Some of the most popular solutions for industries such as hotel management and fashion as well as functional extensions for management of sales or transactions "inter-company."
15/07/2010 by Pure Marketing Writing
Social media is trendy. We all talk about them, but there are still many managers who are considering introducing or not the 2.0 in their strategic plans.
Although some companies are already in it, and are developing interesting campaigns in the network, others are still afraid and are reluctant to jump to 2.0 and others lack only one last push to dive into this exciting field.
For the undecided, Best Relations has collected 1 meter for reasons to be in social media, 100 data to dispel any doubts about the desirability of integrating the 2.0 in the strategic communication plans of any company.
Here we highlight some of these reasons for being in Social Media
- Companies that use social media outperform the competition in revenues and profits.
- Only 14% of the population rely on advertising claims
- 25% of the search results of the 20 companies in the world are links to content created by users outside of those companies.
- Social media require less investment than conventional advertising.
- Internet overtakes TV as the most used by the Spanish.
- 85% of Internet users have ever changed your buying decision based on an opinion that you have read on the Internet, buying decisions are forged from what people say online.
- Be the first can be risky, but the latter can be even harder.
- Spain is one of the countries with the highest Internet penetration, with over 25 million users.
- Over 60% of Spanish households have personal computers and portable acquisition continues to grow very quickly.
- Spanish users engaged in online an average of 13.6 hours per week.
