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    <title>Blog Posts From Jive Talks Tagged With rock</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:03:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jive Partners Rock!!!</title>
      <link>http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/community/jivetalks/blog/2009/03/31/jive-partners-rock</link>
      <description>&lt;!-- [DocumentBodyStart:9c8a2074-0f78-4d4b-957d-c5078ac8a39b] --&gt;&lt;div class="jive-rendered-content"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Any successful software company doesn&amp;rsquo;t try to &amp;ldquo;take the hill&amp;#8221; alone. Partnerships are critical to growing faster, smarter, and most importantly, delivering the best results for &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/customers"&gt;&lt;span class="jive-link-external-small"&gt;Jive&amp;rsquo;s customers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;We have a ton of talented, creative, intelligent people, but our SBS leadership would not have been possible without &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/about/partners/list"&gt;&lt;span class="jive-link-external-small"&gt;our valued partners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;These partnerships can take on many shapes and forms, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technology Partners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who enable us to extend the capabilities of our product to provide the most feature rich offering on the market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;System Integrators&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who understand Jive&amp;rsquo;s product thoroughly and deliver successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agencies and Strategic Consultants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who provide Social Business Software guidance and complement our own Strategy Practice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jive Resellers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who have relationships in markets and verticals that expand the reach of our own sales team.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;OEM Partners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who embed Jive within their products to provide their customers with more extensive offerings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Government Experts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and International Partners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who help us navigate these growing market opportunities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Our Customers,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who we have always viewed as our partners,&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;that&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;leverage their experience in their own domains, as well as their experience with Jive&amp;rsquo;s products, to create incredible solutions that can be shared with the market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The best thing about our partners is their approach to servicing customers. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Figuring a way not to fail vs. figuring out a way to do something &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;legendary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; One of the greatest things about Jive is working with people who have the desire to be legendary. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Our partners share that approach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;I always tell customers and partners from the outset that no relationship is perfect all the time&amp;#8230;just ask Mrs. Brown. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; It&amp;rsquo;s about being able to work together, to disagree and work through that disagreement, to realize it&amp;rsquo;s not about winning, but about winning together for mutual success, that really produces those legendary results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;There are too many partners worthy of recognition to single them out here by name -- &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I would be fearful of an oversight and thus not giving them their deserved credit. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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 &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://news.google.com/news?um=1&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=jive+software+partners"&gt;list of recent news about our partnerships&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Suffice to say, we appreciate and value our partner ecosystem and look forward to growing those relationships and developing others. &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; min- "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Jive Partners truly rock!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:9c8a2074-0f78-4d4b-957d-c5078ac8a39b] --&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>robert.brown@jivesoftware.com</author>
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      <dc:date>2009-03-31T15:11:00Z</dc:date>
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