Jive's Got an App for That...

chris.morace@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:29:56 GMT

"This is huge."

This is a recurring statement each and every time we demo the new Jive iPhone application and Blackberry capabilities for a customer. Social Business Software has matured rapidly and grown by leaps and bounds since the early days of wikis and blogging. But as long as our customers remained tethered to their computers, we knew we could only take the Social Business revolution so far.

Our recent announcement of the new Jive SBS 4.0 puts that problem to rest, giving people access to all of the same content and conversations they’ve worked with at their desks, extending this experience to the iPhone and Blackberry. We believe that by extending Jive to mobile devices in a meaningful way, we are making it even easier for people to get hooked on Jive. Not only that, but something about the iPhone is a lightning rod for creativity and innovation. I've gotten more incredible ideas as feedback since we started sharing this app than any piece of software I've ever built. I truly believe that within a year this application is going to fundamentally change the way people work.

As our customer Kevin Smyth, CIO at Cerner stated so eloquently:

"We are thrilled to see Jive extend the platform to the iPhone, replicating the desktop experience in a rich, seamless way. The ability to download the application straight from the Apple Apps Store is going to support rapid adoption."

We certainly hope so, but seeing is believing. Check out the screenshots. I dare you not to get hooked.

We've donated an iPhone to the DataPortability logo contest

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:08:17 GMT

Earlier this week, the DataPortability WorkGroup was sent a Cease and Desist order by Red Hat to stop using their logo. Opting to take the high road, Chris Saad and the crew decided to hold a logo contest to rebrand the DataPortability WorkGroup. To show our support and to get the prize bandwagon moving, Jive was the first to donate a prize, which was an iPhone. Since then, the prize list has grown to an impressivly long list of goodies, such as:

iPhone from Jive Software
Weeks ad space on Techcrunch! Thanks to Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch
A Month ad space on either CenterNetworks (www.centernetworks.com) or
HTMLCenter (www.htmlcenter.com) thanks to Allen Stern
$100 from Bub.blicio.us thanks to Brian Solis
$100 of Compete Credits to get access to premium reports thanks to Jay Meattle at Compete.
$500 and a “I’d sync that” T-shirt from Plaxo thanks to John McCrea
An A0 Trendmap from Information Architects
$100 from HedgeHog Lab

We believe in the work that the DataPortability WorkGroup is doing and are proud to support their rebranding effort. If you would like to see the logo submissions, check out their Flickr pool. The deadline for submissions is March 11, 2008.

Good luck!

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Jive's Got an App for That...

"This is huge."

We've donated an iPhone to the DataPortability logo contest