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Hosting another article for the digital transformation and the 4th Industrial Revolution, by Marina Alamanou (regional partner at FasterCapital) who gave us permission to publish in our blog space. ''During my first month as a regional partner for the FasterCapital incubator, the most common question I have received from Greek founders around Europe has been the following: “Since FC is based in Dubai how can they help me while I am based in Europe”? While my answer is that “FC is a virtual incubator”, I find myself explaining to them what it means to belong to a “virtual community living in the cloud”! Essentially a community of digital associations, interconnections and new emerging associations of people and businesses all distributed globally and crossing straight through traditional geographical, cultural and political boundaries. So, enter the 4th industrial revolution, an era that is going to be characterized by a fusion of technologies blurring the lines between the...

Please introduce yourself to the reader of this blog and update us on your latest endeavors. I started my company in social media when I was 24. I had then gone from studying entrepreneurship to working at the University in Kristiansand with Entrepreneurship that I thought it was time that I actually started a company myself. Having lived alone since I was 14 you could say that I in some ways always has been an entrepreneur but I hadn't yet formed a company. I could see the future of communication being social media. And this was at a time where companies would not have anything to do with Facebook or did not believe it would have anything to do with them at all. And of course they just thought I was stupid when I told them that it would be their prime communication tool with users. I started approaching companies with my new formed social media company and sold services that at that time made them stand very much out from the crowd in social media. I also did public speaking to...

1. Please introduce your company, IMC Technologies, to the readers of our blog & update us on your latest endeavors. Modern organizations, regardless of their size or function, want to engage their members / customers / citizens / employees (who are the most valuable assets) in an online collaboration and participation process to receive feedback, insights, opinions, ideas, to discover emerging trends and opportunities or identify threats, to inform and build awareness, to reach consensus, to solve problems, to build relationships, to promote goals, and most of all to make generate new revenue streams. IMC Technologies flagship products are eDialogos, publishAIR and Knowledge Accelerator with which IMC develops a leadership positioning in the markets of social business software and social analytics. IMC offers their tools in various commercial models ranging from full custom solutions and professional services for large customers and governments, on to cloud based Sof...