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JiveWorld09 Videos and Presentations Now Available Online

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:01:13 GMT

It's hard to believe that JiveWorld09 concluded just a few short weeks ago. It was clearly one of the biggest and most powerful gathering of enterprise social business leaders.

While the success of our inaugural community conference outpaced our own expectations, I've been just as excited about the post-event feedback, discussions and customer requests. What I'm hearing both validates our strategic vision and provides valuable insights to help deepen and broaden our value to the enterprise.

The team here has been busy formatting and organizing conference content to ensure your ease of access. Thanks to nearly 30 customers and partners and Jive's own product experts and strategic consultants, there is a ton of free, valuable content that is now available to you on the JiveWorld event site.

This includes real-world case studies with lessons you can apply immediately at work. Thought-provoking questions and key takeaways for maximizing results with Social Business Software. And impressive metrics and outcomes that exceeded the expectations of the customers sharing them. (Please note -- a few clients requested their content not be published online. So if you detect an omission of content, that's why.)

If you attended, we know you've eagerly awaited this content and we thank you for your patience. Now you can make up the sessions you missed, or get a refresher on what you heard.

If you couldn't get to JiveWorld09, this is goldmine. The most current thinking, strategies and practical applications of Social Business Software in global enterprises is now at your fingertips.

As always, we'd love your feedback and questions in the JiveWorld Community. Together, we'll keep the conversation going until next year -- when the conference will be even bigger and better.

Building a Better Bridge for Cross-Community Conversations

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:20:09 GMT

We at Jive are obviously a bit biased, but we are big believers in the idea of “community.” Online communities have the power to connect people, unearth game changing ideas, and give voice to people who otherwise might not be heard. But despite having drunk the kool-aid, I think anyone who manages an online community will tell you it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. For many companies, it can sometimes feel as if there is a river of activity and conversations happening, but no easy way to capture the sentiments, ideas and insights in a seamless way that allows the organization to take action on what they learn.

That’s why our customers are so excited about the Jive Bridging module in 4.0. In just a few clicks, you can capture a conversation happening in the community and begin socializing it within the organization – behind the firewall – gathering input and feedback almost instantly, and then providing a response just as easily. This is going WAY beyond what others have been promising with Social CRM.

With the magnitude of the Jive SBS 4.0 release, jive bloggers decided to team up on the news and split it into digestible pieces. In this series of posts, we delve deep into the new mobile tools, bridging public and private realms together, deep Microsoft Office integration, and provide a high level perspective of Jive SBS 4.0.

Dave Hersh on Jive SBS 4.0

Bill Lynch on Jive Connects for Microsoft Office

Jive Partners Rock!!!

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:11:00 GMT

Any successful software company doesn’t try to “take the hill” alone. Partnerships are critical to growing faster, smarter, and most importantly, delivering the best results for Jive’s customers. We have a ton of talented, creative, intelligent people, but our SBS leadership would not have been possible without our valued partners.

These partnerships can take on many shapes and forms, including:

Technology Partners who enable us to extend the capabilities of our product to provide the most feature rich offering on the market.
System Integrators who understand Jive’s product thoroughly and deliver successful projects.
Agencies and Strategic Consultants who provide Social Business Software guidance and complement our own Strategy Practice.
Jive Resellers who have relationships in markets and verticals that expand the reach of our own sales team.
OEM Partners who embed Jive within their products to provide their customers with more extensive offerings.
Government Experts and International Partners who help us navigate these growing market opportunities.
Our Customers, who we have always viewed as our partners,thatleverage their experience in their own domains, as well as their experience with Jive’s products, to create incredible solutions that can be shared with the market.

The best thing about our partners is their approach to servicing customers. I come from an old school consulting background early in my career and many times the approach there is to play defense when attacking a problem. Figuring a way not to fail vs. figuring out a way to do something legendary. One of the greatest things about Jive is working with people who have the desire to be legendary. Our partners share that approach.

I always tell customers and partners from the outset that no relationship is perfect all the time…just ask Mrs. Brown. It’s about being able to work together, to disagree and work through that disagreement, to realize it’s not about winning, but about winning together for mutual success, that really produces those legendary results.

There are too many partners worthy of recognition to single them out here by name -- I would be fearful of an oversight and thus not giving them their deserved credit. Going forward I will blog here about specific examples of our partners accomplishments and the success stories they have created. In the meantime, here is a list of recent news about our partnerships.

Suffice to say, we appreciate and value our partner ecosystem and look forward to growing those relationships and developing others.

Jive Partners truly rock!

Work Hard, Play Hard: Jive's Call of Duty 4 Tournament

megan@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:16:48 GMT

Last night we hosted our first Call of Duty 4 Tournament here at Jive headquarters. Turn out was great and the Jivers really showed their gaming expertise.

We started with nine Jive teams at 6:00 PM and by 7:30 PM we were down to our winners: Chase Caster, Software Support Engineer and David Smith, RTC Engineer. Congratulations to you both. You are truly scholars and frag masters.

Then, professional gamers, Kristin Reilly and Oscar "Technoboy" Rivera, stepped up to play our Jive champions. To our own surprise, Chase and David showed us what they were made of and beat the professionals 2-1 in a best of three!

If you'd like to see the photos, check them out on Flickr.