July 2008 - Blog Watch

I have been trying to resist writing too much about the new iPhone. As has been previously reported it has many warts which I hope will be cured soon. However, in the end, it really is a killer device. As many of you know, I am a big fan of Google Reader Read More......( read more ) Read More...

I have been working at Telligent for a little over four years now. When I started, there were just four full time employees. We were very aggressive from the start with our goals and what type of software we thought we could deliver. If you take a look Read More......( read more ) Read More...

ABI didn't include us in their recent social software report , which perplexes me a bit, but we'll chalk it up to the characteristics of a nascent market. But as early as it is in the social software arms race, there are clear cut leaders beginning to emerge. Whether it's enterprise social computing, online communities, or web 2.0 platforms, I think most of us agree that its fundamentally about creating better ways to communicate. The companies that are able to innovate their platforms...

I am a big fan of Evernote and I have been trying to use it more often for centralizing and managing content that matters to me the most. In many cases, this is content to which I receive in my aggregator. Evernote makes it really easy to take content Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Josh gives the low down on what you can expect to see in Community Server 2008.1 . Quick Summary: Themes - Hawaii is getting a really nice make over. Q&A - This is a killer forums feature which needed a little love to put it over the top. If you use Read More......( read more ) Read More...

We're always working on something cool at Telligent , whether it be an entirely new product or some type of addition or extension to Community Server . Some good examples are some of the things we came up with in Hackathon II, including the couple of IM clients that work with Community Server messaging. If you haven't already read about some of the thing we came up with you can see them here and here . Recently over a late night IM session with Dave Donaldson , we pondered the benefits of...

I was excited when Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies from Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc, arrived from Amazon a few days ago. I made sure it was placed at the top of my Nordic Track Must Read stack. The book was written for corporate executives to show them how to use the Groundswell, the emerging world of online social technologies. Unfortunately, the book was a big disappointment for me. For Corporate Execs who don't have a clue this is probably...

True to form, our VP of Sales & Marketing, Tom Edwards , has an ongoing hobby of reviewing emerging trends around marketing and social media. (Guess that's why he's in Marketing and Sales.) :) His most recent point of interest is a new phenomenon Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Well done on The Mojave Experiment! For a company with some of the smartest developers in the world, it's good to hear about others at Microsoft doing something smart once in a while, too. The Mojave Experiment is just that. "Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90...

The last Twitter holdout folds. I ended the good fight and starting tweeting a couple of days ago. It's a vehicle to express my schizophrenic coding life, doing Community Server all-day every-day, but moving in a different direction after hours. I mostly tweet about Community Server, in other words. I also tweet my daily Nordic Track session stats. As for consuming, I've been enjoying catching bits of information throughout the day from folks I don't subscribe to like Tim O'Reilly...

Mastering Brand Performance and Effective Marketing Solutions is what AdTech ‘08 Chicago is all about. It's pretty straight forward, right? Well, it's easier said then done, that's for sure. Web 2.0, social networking, social computing Read More......( read more ) Read More...

The Best Place to Work in DFW is looking for a full-time, in-house recruiter! If you are a recent college graduate and are interested in getting into the fun, fast-paced world of recruiting, we’ve got the position for you! You will work in an energetic Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Windows Live Writer is still best desktop blogging tool on the "market", but as the name implies it only works on Windows. I had been using TextMate for a while, but I have been wanting something a bit richer. After a bit of debugging and testing Read More......( read more ) Read More...