Today in Zurich we were sponsoring and intervening during the Swiss Knowledge Management Forum dedicated to the Web 2.0 and Social Software. I gave a lecture about how the web 2.0 will affect the Enterprise, what we call the Enterprise 2.0, and i've presented to the audience the concept of expertise monetization launched by Netcipia. All the consultants have been really interested, because they have seen very clearly a new opportunity to create a new business channel with their customers.

Miguel Membrado, co-founder & CTO of Netcipia, was interviewed few weeks ago by HyveUP: "How to retail your expertise online", about the new monetization platform:

HyveUp is interviewing a lot of founders & CEOs of the Silicon Valley, don't miss their blog, it's really interesting.

Thanks guys :-)

NETCIPIA ANNOUNCES ITS "ONLINE EXPERTISE MONETIZATION PLATFORM" (OEMP)

San Francisco, March 31 2008

Netcipia, a Web 2.0 company founded in 2006 by Bruno de Beauregard and Miguel Membrado (former co-founders of Mayetic) in Palo Alto, has launched the new version of its free online participative platform.

This new version boasts advanced wiki-type functionalities that place Netcipia amongst the 10 top wiki platforms worldwide in terms of features and ergonomics.

Better yet! The first Web 2.0 service to offer both free and unlimited wikis and blogs within a single interface, Netcipia innovates again by enabling its users to charge for the online content they provide.

Netcipia place owners can charge for their content by offering:

• Weekly, monthly or yearly subscriptions giving access to the entire Netcipia Place.
• Fee-based access to specific pages within the Place.
• Time-limited access to the Place.

Whereas historically, advertisement has been the only way for users to earn some income for the content they provide, Netcipia now enables every professional or expert-amateur to use the power of Web 2.0 to build, expand and manage participative communities as well as charge for valuable content. In exchange for this service, there are not fixed costs: Netcipia will only charge a percentage for every transaction.

Consultants, teachers, gardeners, architects have already begun using their Netcipia participative communities as a lucrative business tool, using one or several of the three payment models available.

However, Netcipia can still be used free of charge to create one or several wiki/blog communities.

Netcipia therefore offers a Win/Win proposition: Users can benefit from the Netcipia platform free-of charge to build their community and offer their content worldwide, until they are able to generate some income by monetizing their content through the use of the Netcipia OEMP.

Click here to launch the PDF version

Here they are. You will be able to modify the skin of your place going within your place's preferences.

MyLimeNetcipia

MyGreyNetcipia

MyFlatBlue

MyFlatRed

After two weeks of votes, the new webdesign that has been elected is the 6d (see our feedback website for more information). Some modifications will be done, and it will look like this:

We have finished the upgrade of our infrastructure and the performance issues we had yesterday are over. Thanks for your patience, and have a great usage of Netcipia :-)

Following our upgrade, we are experiencing important performance problems in our cache systems. We are working on it and it will be solved in the next hours.

Really sorry for the inconvenience, you will retrieve full usage of our system as soon as possible.

Feb. 04, 2008 - 01:00am PST - We are currently upgrading our system. It is possible that we'll have some very short service stops in the next hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience it could cause you.

We have launched a new website to collect and share the feedback of all the users of Netcipia. It is accessible at http://feedback.netcipia.com.

It is independent from Netcipia, you must create a new login specifically for it, but it will allow full discussions like in a forum and the possibility to vote for the feedbacks or for the new features that any of our members could submit.

Don't hesitate to use it and to let it know to anybody else.

We launched yesterday two important features:

• an improved linkbox within the wysiwyg mode, differentiating the action to link to a new page from linking to an existing page. It was confusing for the end-users, it will now be very clear and easy to use.
• a really amazing feature allowing you to select already members of your other existing places when you invite members to a new place ! You will be able like this to build little by little your network of friends, colleagues, partners and so on, and invite them through this automatic directory to any new place you will create. Go to your place invitation section to see how it works. You must have at least 2 places to take profit of this feature...

Enjoy!