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E2.0 Conference community site runs on Jive Clearspace

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:14:23 GMT

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference community site is running on Jive Clearspace 2.0. Wait until you see what’s coming in 2.1 in a few weeks.

Go join and enjoy!

Clearspace X wins InfoWorld's "Technology of the Year"

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:00:17 GMT

Yesterday two pretty cool things happened. Clearspace X won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for "Best Community Platform." We also had our biggest new hire orientation day in the company's history. I think it was close to 15 new people, which is more people than were at Jive when I started.

Clearspace 1.x: A Look Back

greg@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:21:41 GMT

With 2007 coming to a close, I'm in a reflective mood and wanted to share some of my favorite changes to Clearspace and Clearspace X from the past year.

The change to the way discussion threads are presented is at the top of my list. Check out the difference between the way threads look in Clearspace 1.1.1 versus 1.10. In this screen shot you see the older style on the left and the newer style on the right. The newer style is threaded, and the treatment of the individual messages makes it easier to quickly understand the structure of the conversation.

A more profound change is the customizable Space Overview tab in Clearspace 1.6. By rebuilding the Overview tab with drag-and-drop widgets it became much easier to provide just the right information to visitors in a space. A long list of widgets is available, including some for pulling content in from other systems. Widgets have also been used in several customizations to add new functionality or integrate with other systems.

The "What's New" feed on the home page evolved as well. It started out as a feed of all the activity in the system, but this can be overwhelming in large, active communities. Now "What's New" can be personalized to create our own view of the activity in Clearspace. This change makes it easier to focus on your areas of interest. By clicking on "Your View" you can select only the Spaces from which you want to see new and updated content. This change can decrease the noise in "What's New" so that you can focus on what is most important to you.

Do you have a favorite change to Clearspace from the past year?

Clearspace 1.8 Released

greg@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:39:00 GMT

Clearspace 1.8 was released yesterday and includes a couple of new widgets for the customizable space overview page along with a slew of minor improvements and fixes. The two new widgets included are an Activity View of what's going on in a space and a widget for showing the tag groups in a space.

The Activity View widget shows a more detailed listing of what has been happening in the space than the Recent Content widget. It displays an update for each time a comment is posted, each time new content is created or existing content is edited, and each time a poll is created or voted on.

Office 2.0 Recap

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:48:48 GMT

Last week, I was in San Francisco for the Office 2.0 conference. <span class="jive-body-profile-padding">Ismael Ghalimi, the guy behind the whole thing, pulled an amazing conference off in eight weeks. He chose Clearspace to power the conference site , the first use of our product to power an event and (given how fast things were moving) he launched the conference's site a day after setting Clearspace up. As always, he was open about what that process was like and what he learned. From the website's perspective, a little more time would have been great. In the meantime, everyone at the conference was blown away by what Ismael was able to pull off. On the lighter side, attendees who stayed at the conference's hotel were greeted by what looked like the USA Today delivered to their room but was really us having a little Onion-style fun.

I participated in an Enterprise Collaboration panel with SAP, Oracle, BEA, Zimbra and Sony. It was a bit high-level but I tried to reinforce the importance of keeping collaboration focused on productivity. You can watch the video of it and the rest of the conference thanks to coverage by Veodia.

We also participated in the demo tracks. Ismael asked that we have our customers demo our software so we invited Intel and Attensa who both gave great demos of how they're using Clearspace and Clearspace X. Check out the video of Attensa's presentation (slides above) on how they're using Clearspace internally and the sort of impact it's made to their company (like the 31% reduction in email). Intel's video does an excellent job articulating their goals and the short term impact Clearspace X has had for them.

The best part of the conference was how many of the discussions recognized the need for true enterprise-class collaboration software that recognized the needs, challenges and reality-based technical environment that large companies deal with everyday. I remember one person at our booth saying, "you mean you make 'real' software that companies can actually use behind their firewall?!"

Jive Show and Tell Dinner in Portland

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:12:26 GMT

Jive is releasing a new version of Clearspace with what we think are some really cool improvements on September 13th. We thought it might be fun to invite the Portland blogging, podcasting, and influencer community in for a sneak peak on Tuesday, September 11th. Everyone is welcome to attend! The Details: Date: Tuesday, Sept. 11 Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm Where: Jive Software 317 SW Alder St Suite 500 (5th floor) You can RSVP on Upcoming if you are interested in attending.

Jive's Agenda:

We get to do a demo of our new Clearspace release
We're happy to answer questions about our new VC investment from Sequoia, about our job openings, or any other topics.

What You Get:

Free food & drinks
The ability to blog, podcast, etc. about these new features 2 days before the official release
Time to ask questions about Jive Software

How to Get Here:

The Jive Software Office is on SW Alder between 3rd & 4th.

Parking is available in a nearby parking garage, and it is short walk

from the Max / bus lines (Directions).

Intel launches "first online public community" on Clearspace X

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:48:29 GMT

</span>Today, Intel launched Open Port, Intel's "first public online community," a site dedicated to direct communication between Intel's product & technology experts and the IT community. The video below does a better job than we could in explaining what the community is all about. One of the many quotes I liked was

"To talk to your end user is a must. The longer it takes to make that connection the more you become disconnected from your end user and what they need and want."

Intel shows the right leadership in welcoming a myriad of views and opinions as well as their plan to engage deeply with their community. The site officially launches next week. Be sure to check it out!

Clearspace 1.5 Released

greg@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:12:35 GMT

Clearspace 1.5 was released today featuring a solid list of improvements. Of note is the ability for blog authors and administrators to edit and delete blog comments from three places: inline in the end-user UI; in the blog management area; and, from the Admin Console. Two new blog-related reports were also added for measuring the number of blog comments and blog trackbacks to the system.

There were many other improvements and bug fixes that you can check out in the changelog.

New PC World community powered by Clearspace X

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:26:14 GMT

Yesterday, we were excited to see that PC World had launched their completely revamped community. They talk a little about it here and you can visit the community yourself to check it out.

I remember chatting with the PC World people just a few months ago. They have a really active community and they wanted a way to bring together different content and provide readers, as they put it, "the freedom to create and share" what they know.

Reading through the community feedback, it looks like they're well on their way. As their community manager put it:

This is one of the best post-launch days I've had on any community.

We applaud PC World for their leadership, innovation and commitment to providing value to their loyal readers.