La France et l’écologie

La France et l’écologie
October 18, 2007 by sylvain

Enfin !

Après avoir considéré les écologistes comme des soixante-huitards marginaux pendant de nombreuses années, les Français prennent enfin conscience de leurs responsabilitées.

L’industrialisation, puis la société actuelle de consommation égocentrée, ont caché  le plus important malaise de notre pays, la dégradation de notre environnement, en le classant  à  la dernière place des préoccupations politiques et économiques.

Aujourd’hui, enfin, la France relativise et s’aperçoit petit à  petit que le conditionnement dans lequel elle végète contient une denrée périssable, l’homme, qui même très riche et sur équipé, sera dans quelques temps l’égal de l’animal devant l’agonie de notre planète s’il continue à  ne pas la respecter.

Cette prise de conscience intervient car chacun se sent concerné, mais j’espère simplement que cet engouement collectif ne sera pas éphémère et qu’il permettra à  la France de réellement modifier sa vision de la nature, pour que l’ensemble des Français change  leurs habitudes de vie et pour que l’on puisse envisager un avenir meilleur, voir un avenir tout court, pour notre pays, pour notre planète, pour nous même et pour nos enfants.

Sylvain Houziaux

Note from Imre
We asked Sylvain to give WordPress a spin…. and to find out the french language capabilities…
Not bad.

Community stuff – now we are really talking about power!

Two things have happened recently.

a) We bought some pages on the Millian Dollar Wiki (MDW)
b) We decided to give Click Cart Pro a serious try.

The first was a purely speculative purchase and was driven by the idea of “let us see what happens to this”. (and what a nice idea, why didn’t we think of this one – lol) The second was more about – “bespoke ecommerce sites take an awful lot of effort to get right and to deliver” – especially when the client has not fully appreciated all of the associated business rules….

Anyway, both Click Cart Pro and MDW have strong communities supporting them. And this is the key, the communities want their respective projects to succeed. So if you are a newbie, you can ask all the simple questions and you will be helped. Then there are those who will want the project to grow, expand and become more useful and so there is a steady stream of feedback to the business owners. The business owners then respond and will come up with solutions. The community will then help make these features work and will help others to get the most out of these features. All of the advice, support and encouragement is FREE! Does not cost a penny! But with everyone working together the general knowledge of the group improves, the products improve and everyone benefits – Remarkable.

I think the times are changing, closed and proprietory ways of working surely have their days numbered. How can a small “silo” possibly compete? – The answer is they can’t and therefore must open up. Big companies and organisations that are slow and lumbering had better watch out. The message is clear, “change and adapt or die” – the market is brutal, the costs are going down, customers expect self-service and innovation is the key to survival.

If you have a truly great idea, you must find a way to share it. Share it with a community and they will make you rich!