Dirigé par Benoît Conotte, Yogi et ancien Business Development Manager, ce centre d’expertise va s’attacher à développer une offre unique de services destinées à soulager les clients d’Emakina.

Brice le Blévennec, CVO nous confie : “Durant le salon Digital Marketing First, Emakina Belgique et The Reference avaient invité deux masseuses sur son stand. Ce fut un succès énorme. Nous avons constaté que nous avions réalisé des dizaines de massages, mais vendu aucune campagnes interactives et pas le moindre site web. Une des forces d’Emakina est sa capacité à se remettre en question en tenant compte des besoins du marché. Nous avons donc rapidement annulé nos formation AJAX et formé nos équipes aux techniques ancestrales du Hatha Yoga.”

“Avec la crise économique, nos clients sont de plus en plus stressés. Le métier d’Emakina a toujours été de soulager ses clients en leur offrant les solutions les plus pertinentes. Après Emakina/Perform qui offre une combinaison unique de Web Analytics et de Search Engine Marketing et Emakina/Media, première société spécialisée dans le Media planning et buying 100% Digital, nous lançons un nouveau Centre d’Expertise Emakina/Yoga.” ajoute Denis Steisel, CEO d’Emakina Group.

John Deprez, CEO d’Emakina Belgique précise: “Passer du end-to-end Project Management au end-to-end Customer Management concrétise de notre stratégie d’entreprise : rendre nos clients heureux. En pratique, pour livrer des projets sans bugs nous avons complété nos méthodologies waterfall, Prince2, SCRUM et avons recourt désormais à la méditation, voire à la prière dans le cas de projets Java complexes.”

Karim Choukri, responsable des acquisitions et de leur intégration : “Autant faire appel à des société offshore pour la sous-traitance de projet web est impraticable et présente des risques sur la qualité des développements, autant pour les cours de Yoga nous envisageons de nouer des partenariat étroits avec des société Indiennes de la région de Bangalore. Ceci devrait améliorer sensiblement la contribution positive aux résutats, part du groupe, de cette activité.”

Et Brice Le Blévennec de conclure : “Encore une première mondiale! Nous somme la première agence de Watermael-Boisfort à offrir ce service intégré à notre offre de Full Service Digital Agency. Pour refléter ce nouveau pilier de notre activité, nous avons complété nos couleurs corporate Orange, Bleu et Vert (respectivement pour Créativité, Technologie et Business), du noir et du blanc pour symboliser le Ying et le Yang.”

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Creativite, Technologie, Business, Ying et Yang.

From time to tim, I get to receive strange emails from people that let me know that I’m featured in the Belgian edition of Time’s Up!, a board game. I did not gave enough attention to this until I started to get some pictures sent from iPhone or even via Flickr. I even discovered that I was on the same card as Le Clézio… what an honor! I started googling for more informations about this strange game.

The principle of this game is making the other players guessing a famous character by describing him without pronouncing his name. I the first round, you can use analogies, puns, mimes, anecdotes, anything but his name… In the second round, you have less time to describe them, so you have to reduce them to a word. Of course I can’t resist asking to those who have played this game : how do you describe me in a word ? Let me know in the comment below this post.

Fulgurax is the world fastest housecleaner.

Fulgurax. I am faster than all other humans at doing boring tasks like cleaning my bedroom, mowing the garden or emptying the dishwasher.

This book is special. It was created while my friend Valérie Nimal was appearing in Single, a radio show that I used to present. She gave us lectures of her erotic novels and everytime it was a very special moment. Now it’s a real book, featuring 39 novels and it’s about to be published by Luce Wilkin. It should be on the shelves around mid february, perfect gift to give to your mistress the day after Valentine’s Day.

It’s in french, but this is a very good reason to learn french 😉

We have already launched a first website using the LiveSite technology for a major bank in Belgium : www.ingliondeposit.com

Dear Emakina Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for an Emakination keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Denis deliver the Emakination keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Emakina community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been gaining weight throughout 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and before. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “storing” in me the fat my body needs to get rid of to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun diet. But, just like I didn’t gain this much weight and body mass in a week or a month or a year, my doctors expect it will take me until late this decade to loose it. I will continue as Emakina’s President during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Emakina for the past 17 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Emakina’s President. I hope the Emakina community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Emakina first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Brice

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