ThoughtFarmer on Enterprise 2.0 TV
Chris| June 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
I was interviewed for “Enterprise 2.0 TV” today in Boston. I’ve embedded the video below:
View more clips from conference sessions at Enterprise 2.0.
ThoughtFarmer at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston; IDEO presenting
Chris| June 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Darren and I are off to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, June 22-25th. This event has become the official go-to gathering for all the pundits, bloggers, media, vendors and consultants in the enterprise social software space. If we’re lucky, there might even be some potential customers there. 
One of the highlights will be seeing Gentry Underwood, our good friend and client at IDEO, presenting on “How to Build Collaborative Software That People Will Actually Use.” The extract of the session:
Why do many internal Web 2.0 systems fail to thrive? Is it culture? Fear of new technology? Unspoken rules around collaboration and competition? Designing solutions that work means finding triggers for individual motivation, insisting on simple and intuitive UI, and integrating into existing workflows. IDEO, the award-winning design firm ranked #10 on Fast Company’s list of the Most Innovative Companies, shares key insights derived from experiences building knowledge sharing systems internally and for its Fortune 100 clientele.
Gentry will be showing off The Tube, IDEO’s beautiful intranet. ThoughtFarmer is a critical component of it. Catch the presentation in Boston on Wednesday, June 24th at 1:00pm.
Gentry presenting IDEO’s knowledge sharing platform at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. Photo by Paul May.
ThoughtFarmer will also have quite a presence at this conference:
- We’ll have a demo pod in the Expo pavilion
- I’m presenting a condensed, 10-minute version of “Stemming Knowledge Loss with Social Intranet Software” — see a recorded version here
- We’re sponsoring Oliver Mark’s and Stowe Boyd’s Open Enterprise 2009 Research
- Darren and I will be walking everywhere in our flashy ThoughtFarmer T-Shirts
If you’re in the Boston area and would like to meet, please come by the expo (you can register for a Free Pavilion Pass) or tweet us: @thoughtfarmer.
Our demo pod at last year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference.
Walk through of ThoughtFarmer’s New Employee Directory
Chris| June 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Check out this video walk through of ThoughtFarmer 3.5’s New Employee Directory!
Search for employees by name, last name letter, or using our advanced filtering system that helps you find the right person, faster. Connect with your colleagues in a meaningful way.
For screenshots of the new Employee Directory, you can check out our features page or this blog post.
Stemming Knowledge Loss with Social Intranet Software - Recorded Webinar
Chris| June 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
This morning, wiki expert Stewart Mader and I presented a webinar on Stemming Knowledge Loss with Social Intranet Software.
According to a tweet by industry pundit Thomas Vanderwal:
the @thoughtfamer & @slmader webinar is really good (yes, I know I am supposed to hate everything).
Thanks Thomas, glad you liked it! Although we were unable to record the live webinar, I recorded a shorter version here. Length is 25 minutes.
ThoughtFarmer Featured on Top Tech Blog ReadWriteWeb
Chris| June 4th, 2009 No Comments »
ReadWriteWeb, the world’s 15th most popular blog, featured ThoughtFarmer last night in a post titled, “ThoughtFarmer, Cultivating Social Intranet Software.” (Writers always seem to love making those farming jokes about us.)
The article highlights our new Discussion Capture feature:
By battling with the notoriously thorny Exchange server APIs, Discussion Capture automatically creates pages from threads in an email distribution list. This turns your emails in to a searchable knowledge base for those who’re comfortable in a more social work environment. What’s more, distributions lists can be managed from within ThoughtFarmer by anyone, circumventing IT and Exchange altogether.
