Recent Posts
Manoj Ranaweera's EIPP Blog
Return To Blog Listing
On ebdex, Document Exchanges, EIPP, e-invoicing, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, Funding and anything else of interest
Recent Posts Tagged With 'not tagged'
Forthcoming event on the 15th July at KPMG Manchester
I have been running Northern StartUp 2.0 events to promote digital entrepreneurship in the North of UK since October 2006 at the suggestion of TechCrunchUK Editor at the time, Sam Sethi. I am happy to announce that for the first time, the event on 15...
Being Digital - must attend event on 10th Jun 08
Simon Grice and Tony Fish from MashupEvents are holding a cracking event on 10th June 2008 for web 2.0 enthusiasts, branded Being Digital to celebrate the success of MashupEvents, which was founded in February 2006 by Simon. Tony joined in early 2007...
Calling VCs and Business Angels in San Francisco
My message posted on LinkedIn today… As part of webmission08, I will be in San Francisco from 19th to 25th April representing www.edocr.com, as the Founder and CEO. I am free on: 19th Sat - 17:30 to 18:30 20th Sun – anytime after 14:30 ...
My new mac
Influenced by the inner circle, I finally ditched my laptop for a shiny Macbook Pro with 5GB of RAM and 186GB of hard disk. Since last Thursday, I have been moving files and applications from old laptop to the Mac. I also installed VMWare as I intend...
Responding to Paul - "the Vision Thing"
L to R: Paul Robinson and Simon Grice at Northern StartUp DEMO 2 on 19th March 08 I cannot exactly remember when I first met Paul Robinson, perhaps at the inaugural event of North West Digital Communities, which was organised by Manchester Digital De...
Barcamp Manchester - Inaugural event
I attended Barcamp Manchester on 1st of March 08, and here are couple of pictures thanks to flickr. BarcampManchester had been a subject regularly discussed at North West Digital Communities meetings. Until Paul Robinson took over,...
e-mail marketing campaigns and advertising opportunities
This year, I plan to reach out to my readership, clients and prospects through e-mail marketing campaigns. This presents an opportunity for you to advertise on e-mail marketing material that I plan to generate. If you are interested, please do get in...
2008: A year of recovery, consolidation and growth…
Let me start the first blog post of 2008 by wishing all my Readers a happy and prosperous New Year. I see 2008 as the year of recovery, consolidation and growth. I would like to take a moment of your time to share some of the activities I will be inv...
Forbes’ Top 25 Web Celebrities
I am a collector of people - the basic ingredient of networking. Forbes just published the list of Top 25 Web Celebrities. Here is the list: 1. Perez Hilton2. Michael Arrington3. Mark Frauenfelder4. Seth Godin5. Cory Doctorow6. Matt Drudge7. Gina Tra...
Web 2.0 startups and Crain’s Manchester Business (CMB)
Crain’s Manchester Business was launched yesterday as planned giving a great opportunity to showcase Northern businesses not just to the local audience through both print and web, but also to the world. The CMB is not just limited to mat...
The Power of the Blog (especially in the financial automation industry)
So… my company, PayStream Advisors… our biggest business is Accounts Payable Automation. We make the point to say we deal with financial automation in general, but in all seriousness, our sweet spot is AP automation. We’re successfu...
2008 claims to be full of events in Manchester……….
I am not sure whether I am crazy in announcing this, but the plan is to hold an event each month. NW StartUp 2.0 This event will continue to focus on startup and early stage funding with the format unchanged, i.e. Networking 2 to 4 speeches - entrep...
NW StartUp 2.0 DEMO + Mashup* Manchester is almost here
On 6th December 07, I will be hosting the NW StartUp 2.0 DEMO (inaugural event) and Mashup* Manchester (2nd event) back-to-back at a new venue, eOffice Manchester. As usual, the Mashup* Manchester is co-hosted by Simon Grice. Whilst the event date wa...
The International Problem
I read recently that it take the average British citizen 40 days to get a Visa to the United States. 40 days! England, our time honored ally pretty much since the end of the War of 1812, a country that speaks the same language, has heavier-handed pri...
Help me price my first analyst report on EIPP (e-invoicing)
I have been working on and off on an Analyst Report on OB10 independently. OB10 knows what I am doing but it is not sponsored by them, and therefore remains 100% independent. Most Analyst Reports are sponsored, and sometimes even co-written by the sp...
Feedback from BarcampLeeds
Imran Ali’s e-mail just reminded me that I have not written about BarcampLeeds, which I attended on Saturday. An event full of networking and presentations opportunities! I had a decent crowd for my presentation, which had two halves - first l...
Calling all web developers….
Do you upload documents to your web sites? If so, would you like to liven your web site by showing the thumbnails instead of the less attractive pdf icon? Then, please follow the following simple instructions: Upload the document to edocr Copy and p...
My first ever Barcamp - 2 in 1 (Leeds + Ottawa)
BarcampLeeds is almost there, yes it is on tomorrow. This will be my first barcamp and I am really looking forward to it. I have been told that it is an event where you focus less on sales and marketing, but more on open dialogue, perhaps around a c...
edocr gains over 50,000 hits so far this month - what are you waiting for?
We have reached the half point of November today, and what better to do than share some of our traffic figures (from 1st to 14th November 07) so far: Hits 50,027 Unique visitors 44,940 Page views 126,802 New visitors 89.68% Reached 137 coun...
Sun StartUp Essential Programme is almost here
Over the last six months or so, Stewart Townsend has been working hard to bring Sun StartUp Essential programme to the UK. Whilst the details are yet to be finalised, a soft launched is planned for in December at Mashup* Events, with main launch tak...
Dell to ship Sun Solaris OS
I do not normally cover technology news unless it is related to EIPP or ERP. But this is quite a big story - Dell selling Solaris operating system software. Sun declares the reasons for this partnership as market momentum and customer demand. Solari...
Google Rankings - edocr starting to make an impact - 3500 hits yesterday
Here is a quick comparison of Google Rankings for some of the vendors already leveraging edocr: VENDOR THIS BLOG edocr Accountis 3 (Dec 06 post) 7 DDC HRO 19 (Jan 07 post) 8 Paystream Advisors 4 & 5 14 It will not take long for edocr ...
Hello… and the struggle with Google
So! First post on Manoj’s blog and I have to be honest with you, it will have little to do with EIPP, except a little tangentially. I’ll leave the expertise to the expert himself, and spend my time here at manojwaneera.com waxing about eP...
BarcampLeeds on 17th November 07
BarcampLeeds is taking place on 17th November 07, thanks to startup evangelists such as Imran Ali. North’s first Barcamp took place in Sheffield, which I could not attend. Manchester has not yet managed to pull off a Barcamp this year, even th...
Mashup Manchester 2nd event on 6th December 2007 - Conference + Free Demo
As we believe that everyone had a good time on the 18th October, Simon Grice and I with Stewart Townsend (and with thought leadership from Lee Strafford) have decided to fast forward the next Mashup event from Feb 08 to 6th December 2007. We are also...
Mashup Manchester - Collection of blog posts
We had a great Mashup Manchester inaugural gathering on 18th October at Sun Microsystems, Sale, Manchester. The session was started by none other than David Terrar, who is one of the three people who inspired me to start blogging i...
Crain’s Manchester Business launching in December
Today, I had the pleasure to meet Steve Brauner, Editor of soon to be launched, Crain’s Manchester Business, a weekly tabloid aimed at business reader covering Greater Manchester. Steve is a veteran journalist, having previously edited North We...
OpenCoffee Manchester - 7th Event & Handover to Paul Robinson
Today, we had our 7th event of OpenCoffee Manchester, at which I handed the running of this event series to Paul Robinson of Vagueware. I believe Paul is able to unite the Manchester geekup community and the entrepreneur community, especia...
Fundtech # 1 - Sanjay Dalmia Authors Book on Financial Supply Chain
Sanjay Dalmia, CEO of CashTech Solutions, a Fundtech company has authored a new book, Financial Supply Chain, published by McGraw Hill. According to the press release, the book defines fundamental Financial Supply Ch...
