Ideas4all. The ideas social network.

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Madrid, Novermber 5th, 2010. Ideas4all, the reference social network of ideas, which is also offered to companies as an innovation tool, has just launched the Second Edition of its ʻBig Bang Challengeʼ, a competition rewarding the best business idea with 25,000$. The organization is looking for ideas that are innovative, technology-based, focusing on mobile phones, the Internet… The jury responsible for the selection of the best ideas is made up of renowned experts in the evaluation of new businesses, such as Javier Oliván (Facebook), Juan Roure (IESE), Brian Subirana (MIT), Fernando Egido (Caja Navarra), Inés Leopoldo (Mitsue Venture), Margarita García de la Calle (Aboo Partners)… and Ana María Llopis herself, CEO of ideas4all.

All the information is available in the website bigbangchallenge.com.

The founders of The Journal Wiki, winners of the first edition, and the people at ideas4all, invite anyone with a good idea to take part... here is the video (viewed over 5,500 times during its first week): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDTqVXteUMw

About Ideas4all

Ideas4all (www.ideas4all.com) is a vertical social network, providing a new way of sharing ideas and innovation, offered to companies and institutions, and giving them access to original ideas that are currently out of their reach, and this internally, thus managing a fivefold increase in the commitment employees feel towards their organization. Since its launch, on July 15th, 2008, users have added over 60,000 ideas in the website ideas4all.com and have raised 3,700 problems, offering close to 3,400 solutions. There are over 60,000 registered users in ideas4all and over 13,000 platforms have been installed for clients, with an added total of ideas and challenges of 7,200.

For further information:

Millán Berzosa
mberzosa@ideas4all.com
+34 915 76 06 76

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•Prestigious business personalities contribute resources.
•The Million Euros join another 3 Million from previous financing rounds.
•Over 50,000 ideas submitted by users in the website, www.ideas4all.com
•Ideas4all reaches its objective for the whole year in half the time: contracts for over 400,000 Euros in the first six months of 2010.

Madrid, July 13th, 2010. Ideas4all, the ideas social network of reference, offered also to companies as a tool for innovation, has just increased its capital by 1 Million Euros.
Close to 70% of angels who invested in previous financing rounds, adding up to 3 Million Euros, have again contributed to capital.

Along with Ana María Llopis, CEO and founder of ideas4all, as well as Board Member at BAT and Service Point, other renowned business personalities have also invested in this round, such as Peter Wood (founder of Direct Line in the UK, and later of Línea Directa) or Board Members Ángel Durández (President of OJD and Board Member at Telecinco and Repsol) and Stanley Bendelac (founder of Delvico, Advertising creative
and prestigious adviser). Also contributing to capital were Luis Cacho, President of Arsys, partner of Gnoss and President of Fundación Promete, or Mercedes Domingo (owner and founder of FunnyDoors).

This financial support has arrived precisely as a business plan advances twice as quickly as expected. Contracts have been agreed for 418,000 Euros during the first six months of 2010, meaning ideas4all has reached its annual objective in half the projected time.

Big clients and successful case studies
Ideas4all has, to date, installed nine platforms in big companies of the finance, energy, telecommunications and computing sectors, as well as in education, where brand identification has been more than significant. Ideas4all’s platform for Banco Sabadell, launched in early 2010, and which has received close to 3,000 ideas, has already seen the participation of 70% of the bank’s employees. The platform ‘ideas for Guadalajara’, with Santander Universidades and Universia, reached 750 initiatives in May, betwe en ideas and challenges that were presented and debated, with great impact, during the 2nd Ibero-American Rectors’ Congress that took place in Mexico.

About Ideas4all
Ideas4all (www.ideas4all.com) is a vertical social network that offers a new way of sharing ideas and innovation. A place where businesses and institutions can find original ideas from people who are currently out of their reach. Ideas4all seeks to keep these ideas from going to waste, and to democratize their validation. Since its launch on July 15th, 2008, ideas4all has grown very quickly, showing there was a demand for its services.

Up to July 2010, users have submitted over 50,000 ideas in the website ideas4all.com and have raised over 3,000 problems and offered close to 2,700 solutions.

Themes: Ideas are related above all to improving the quality of life of people, to entertainment, the environment, culture and technology.

There are over 50,000 registered users in ideas4all and approximately 10,000 in platforms installed for clients, where the total of ideas and challenges is close to 6,000.
There is a clear incentive for participation in said platforms, especially for employees, who increase their commitment to the organization up to five-fold.
For further information:

Millán Berzosa
mberzosa@ideas4all.com
+34 915 76 06 76

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Banco Sabadell sets “BS Idea” in motion, a platform destined to make employee participation easier

•       The use of this new platform will enable the company to collect and treat suggestions for improvement made by company employees.
•       The tool, developed by ideas4all, includes a series of characteristics that differentiate it significantly from other similar products, and has been integrated into Banco Sabadell's corporate intranet.
•       During the first weeks, 900 suggestions for improvement have already been generated, commented and valued by 4,000 users.

January 19th, 2010. Banco Sabadell has set the "BS Idea" in motion, an innovative virtual social network that facilitates the reception and treatment of all ideas, suggestions for improvement and new commercial initiatives generated in any area of the organization.

BS Idea, developed by ideas4all -a company founded and directed by Ana María Llopis, also founder of OpenBank and executive director with ample experience in the Internet and new technologies sector- incorporates a series of characteristics making it a far more advanced tool than other similar platforms currently on the market.

During the first weeks of operation, the activity level in this new social network for the bank's employees has been extremely high. On December 31st, a total of 4,000 users had accessed the portal. 1,600 of these had contributed ideas, including 932 suggestions for improvement. These are, according to Miguel Montes, Associate General Director, “extremely positive figures, exceeding by far the average use of this type of channel, and proving the implementation of a social network within a company has the potential to become a very useful resource, if managed correctly”.


An innovative tool in the sector

BS Idea uses technology developed by ideas4all (www.ideas4all.com) to implement specialized social networks. A number of modifications have also been included to adapt this technology to Banco Sabadell's specific needs, making BS Idea an advanced and clearly differentiated product. Some of BS Ideas' outstanding characteristics are:

• Its idea voting system, based on five levels for grading.
• Total freedom to register new ideas, without having to pass through an internal circuit for approval.
• Access for all employees, from the corporate intranet.

The interaction made possible by this system generates an important source of information for the company. Since it is very possible that the most commented and highly marked ideas are the most useful for a greater number of users, those responsible for making a final selection have access to particularly useful information.

BS Idea also includes 17 categories to classify ideas, aligned with the bank's strategic objectives, in order to detect high-value initiatives that may contribute to improve internal processes.

In the future, the bank is considering the possibility of opening a social network to its customers, in order to obtain more feedback from its users.

ideas4all, a new way of sharing ideas and innovation

ideas4all (www.ideas4all.com) is a vertical social network offering a new way of sharing ideas and innovation. A place where companies and institutions can access innovative ideas generated by people currently out of their reach. ideas4all seeks to avoid that these ideas may go to waste and to democratize their validation. From its launch on July 15th 2008, ideas4all has grown very quickly, showing there was a real demand for its services: more than 38,000 ideas submitted; 5 million visits; more than 10 million pages viewed; registered users from 150 countries, and more than 3,500 cities. The platform also offers its services to companies, as a tool that facilitates and democratizes internal, or external, innovation processes, collecting contributions made by customers, employees and consumers.

Dirección de Comunicación y de Relaciones Institucionales Banco Sabadell
bspress@bancsabadell.com
Tel. 902 030 255, ext. 39427 • Fax 935 916 062

Más información sobre Banco Sabadell:
www.bancosabadell.com • Sala de prensa

For further information:

Millán Berzosa
mberzosa@ideas4all.com
+34 915 76 06 76