media aces

Media Aces was born during a rendez-vous. A social media rendez-vous, as you can easily imagine. Yann and me first met on a TV show, someday  in february 2009. As every wednesday, I was doing interviews for Corporate Blogs, the online TV show produced and hosted by DecideursTV, a french web TV for professionals. Corporate Blogs is the place where french coporate bloggers come and explain how and why they started their blog. Several companies have joined so far: Poweo, BNP Paribas, Ben & Jerry, etc.

Yann was one of the people interviewed during those days. As head of the internet activity at Orange Business Services (OBS), he had been involved in OBS blogs since the beginning: the audience would clearly benefit from his views, knowing the role he plays within a major telecommunication company, coupled with a long experience of the Internet. 

It was just after the last sequence was recorded, that Yann and me got to the same conclusions: the need for a global european association, where all people involved in "corporate social media" - and not only corporate blogs - would meet and share their common intreste in social media technology, usages, benefits … and barriers. Media Aces was born.

Just for the pleasure of remembering the early stages of our initiative, and for the benefits of our French readers, here is the video of the interview.

http://media-aces.org blog now open

Media-aces.org is the blog which will underpin our new club of European social media enterprise experts. This isn’t just another blog about web 2.0, but the platform which we will use in order to evangelise about social media and how important it is in the business world. 

We have also wanted Media-aces to be a real 2.0 (non-)organisation, in which all members are contributing to the improvement of the use of social media in a responsible, accountable and ethical manner. 

As a result, we also want this blog to be the repository for value-added content regarding social media subjects in Europe. Welcome to the media-aces blog and feel free to contribute ideas, suggestions, and even articles if you so wish by contacting us via e-mail through our Yahoo! Group list-owner account at media-aces-owner "@"yahoogroups.com

Yann Gourvennec, founding member of media-aces

Media ACES is the association for corporations & European social media.

We are a peer to peer network of corporate social media experts / evangelists based in Europe.

Our aim is to

1. Be recognised as the community (club) of European corporations(*) of all sizes involved in all kinds of social media initiatives, including corporate blogs and the use of social networks

    

2. Enable European social media experts to meet with their peers from all other European corporations, in their own country and across borders

    

3. Become the reference for social media in Europe as to best practices and methods, via the publication of a reference guide book for European professionals interested in leveraging social media (online & offline)

    

(*) by corporations, we mean any company having invested in social media, irrespective of company and revenue size