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Entry for March 02, 2006

KK-Net Ky, Finland, is a privately held family company. The company started in August 1998. We are a consulting company providing: Information Technology Supported Services for Industry, Commerce and Regional Development Organizations.

 

The range of services include:

 

1. Business Ideas, Concepts and Strategies
2. Networking support and Financial Planning
3. Market Research and Business Plans,
4. Creative Collaboration platforms
5. International Business Operations
6. Innovative Implementation Strategies
7. e-Commerce, Micromovies, and Visual Positioning,
8. Global Sales and Innovation Support
9. Podcasting and Webcasting solutions

 

Who

Helge Keitel, KK-Net, Loviisa, Sotkamo, FINLAND

Drottninggatan 13 B, 07900 Lovisa, Finland

http://www.kknet.fi/

 

What

Areas of Interest: New product innovations and global distributed distance operations Experience: global operations in combination with hyper local action programs

 

Digital Villages

Kuikkalantie 4, 88600 Sotkamo, Finland

http://www.digitalvillages.net/

 

Global Economy

In the global economy, collaboration within groups of geographically dispersed knowledge workers is quickly becoming the locus of creativity and innovation.

http://digitalvillages.wikispaces.com/

 

Partners

We are searching for partners in the area of:

• Social Collaboration and Networking
• Business Improvement District (BID) practices and experiences from various countries
• Les Grands projets de ville (GPV)
• Visual Radio, Future Television over Interent, Videoblogging, Webcasting, Narrowcasting
• Social innovations in the areas of combination of global and hyper local action programs
• We are searching for BID partners for a European project concerning BID

Nylands BID

 

Project management

On a global scale or at a hyper local level

 

• Project management
• Distributed documentation
• Collaborative intranet
• Team weblogs communication
• Videoblogging for community information distribution
• Visual Radio as a future interactive communication platform for regional development
• Design collaboration in international projects
• Distributed market intelligence
• Consultative team selling and distributed information production
• Customer care as the blogs provide the faqs and facts
• Private partner collaboration
• Event facilitation
• And much more...

 

We provide advertisers with opportunities to establish digital and localized consumer connections.

 

Digital Storytelling

 

One reason I think digital storytelling is so compelling, is that as human beings, we have always connected to and learned from stories. At one point that was our only means for sharing our histories and experiences.

 

The purpose of large scale digital displays at service stations and shopping centres is not always to get the largest and widest readership possible. We want to communicate with interested individuals.

 

Webcasting

 

We have had television, movies and video for a long time, but we have not had the ability and mean ourselves as regular community members (and not specialists in video production) to create our own productions like we can today.

 

Creating a video clip - micromovie - of an oral history interview, of a family birthday, or any other event involves a multiplicity of aspects. As the videographer, you are both script writer and camera operator. You are the producer and the editor. You are the technical consultant and the content expert. You do it all.

 

Small Focus Groups

 

In business-to-business marketing the number of those individuals and decision makers we want to reach may be very few, but the impact of the chosen communication strategy and content we use can have economic impact far beyond its cost.

 

Blogging

 

A blog can cover trade shows, trips, and competitions that the owner attended, with coverage tuned to the local interests. One of the most important things with being at a conference is that you can get face-to-face response from the people present; you don't have to write them or ask somebody else what they meant.

 

Bloggers bring the discussions and the questions more into the light; it would be possible to create a better dynamic between the different modes. We can add video files, photographs, scanned documents, and Web pages as an increasingly sophisticated effort to conduct a global Internet-based publicity effort.

 

Training and management

 

Many people teach with blogs these days, and there are a number of approaches. One approach to teaching with blogs could be to organize the class blogging around a mini-blogosphere. Each student having an independent blog, for which the course might be one of many subjects blogged.

 

We would like to invite digital content artists to participate in our large screen online marketing action and project. We are conducting research on how businesses are using online marketing in general and searching new sales and marketing channels in particular.

 

Where?

Target areas to be found here:

 

• Scandinavia
• Continental Europe
• Norht America
• South America
• Russia
• Japan
• Asia
• UK

 

BID

 

For the past 20 years, BID models have been applied to motivate activities designed to improve business conditions in business parks, commercial and retail districts. Examples of local BID programs organized:

 

1. The City's largest outdoor festivals,
2. Manage street banner programs,
3. Provide newsletters,
4. Websites and business directories,
5. Generate special marketing campaigns,
6. Manage public parking programs,
7. Drive redevelopment activities,
8. Organize security programs,
9. Supervise public right-of-way maintenance,
10. Manage public improvement and beautification projects,
11. Recruit new business starts,
12. And sponsor various neighbourhood activities such as farmers' markets and restaurant walks.

 

Connecting Objects

 

Advances in tag technology have dramatically improved read rate and range, while driving down the cost of RFID systems. Innovation can likewise help with privacy and security concerns, providing a range of options to balance consumer, business needs

 

Technology in concert with policy: RFID is just the first wave of new technologies connecting the physical and logical worlds. Many benefits to imagine, not just risks…