Information vs Knowledge Worker

Wednesday, October 29 2008

I've spent the past couple of days in Redmond, WA at Microsoft's Enterprise Partner Summit. A term Microsoft uses just about everywhere is "Information Worker". They have entire business units formed around...

Social Fingerprints

Thursday, October 23 2008

One of the really innovative things that the team has been working on, and that we showed at the in.Telligent conference, is something we're calling Social Fingerprints. This is included in Harvest 2.0...

2008 In.Telligent Conference Sold Out

Friday, October 17 2008

It came down to the wire, but as of about 10AM today - the Friday before the conference - we sold out! Last year we had approximately 80 attendees + staff. This year we have 200 attendees + staff! It's...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Thursday, October 16 2008

I almost let it pass without realizing it. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is an issue that I'm personally connected to. When I was 21 breast cancer killed my mom. It started when I was...

Pragmatic beer - Dallas

Monday, October 13 2008

Re-posting from Scott Watermasysk: http://simpable.com/code/pragmatic-beer-dallas/ Come join us for a beer and a chat about software. See Scott's post for more details....

Email is part of the DNA of Social Software

Monday, October 06 2008

I don't understand why email is so often disregarded when it comes to collaboration software. Everyone wants to talk about how their software gets you out of email - whereas when you look at how organizations...

World Golf Tour

Monday, October 06 2008

The new community for World Golf Tour launched today. This online game with its stunning visuals and great game play feels like a throw-back to the days of Links mixed together with the Electronic Arts...

Forrester Groundswell User Technographics Reports

Thursday, October 02 2008

The latest version of our business intelligence tool, Harvest , is nearing completion. One of the new included reports is the User Technographics report popularized by Groudswell : The User Technographics...

College ranking by the people

Tuesday, September 30 2008

Customers email me quite often showing off the sites they've built on top of Community Server . It's always really fun to see what innovative new ways people are introducing social tools to an audience...

Intel Capital invests $20M in Telligent

Tuesday, September 23 2008

intel

I'm thrilled to announce that Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, has made a $20M investment in Telligent. You can read the full press release here: Intel Capital to Acquire $20M Stake in Telligent.

I started Telligent back in 2004 with about $5,000. Since then we've grown into a 140+ person profitable business. Today millions of people use Telligent's software everyday with customers such as Microsoft, NASDAQ, NFL, Intel, MySpace.com, and Dell (to name a few).