ThoughtFarmer at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco

Chris| November 2nd, 2009 Comments Off

Gord and I are in San Francisco this week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. We’re wandering the halls in our ThoughtFarmer t-shirts, attending sessions, meeting existing customers and speaking with potential new ones.

A handsome and slimming ThoughtFarmer t-shirt

Bevin Hernandez, the project manager who led the hugely successful ThoughtFarmer roll-out at Penn State University Outreach, is presenting on how to launch Enterprise 2.0 in Oliver Mark’s and Sameer Patel’s session on Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies.

A marketing piece that was part of Penn State’s intranet launch

Gentry Underwood, who leads IDEO’s Knowledge Sharing discipline, is leading a session on the Best of Boston track entitled “How to Build Collaborative Software That People Will Actually Use“. ThoughtFarmer is a critical component of IDEO’s intranet.

Gentry presenting IDEO’s knowledge sharing platform at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. Photo by Paul May.

We’d love to meet with you too. Contact us via twitter at @thoughtfarmer (that’s me) or @gordonr (that’s Gord) and let’s set something up.

ThoughtFarmer ranked #11 on KPMG & Backbone Mag’s Top 20 Web 2.0 Companies in Canada

Chris| July 28th, 2009 1 Comment »

For the second year in a row, ThoughtFarmer has won a Pick20 Web 2.0 Award from KPMG and Backbone Magazine. This year, we move up the list from #18 to #11.

The PICK20 Web 2.0 Award recognizes Canada’s best minds and sharpest practitioners leading the 2.0 evolution of the Web.

We’re especially pleased to be on there again because “any nominee who appeared on last year’s PICK 20 was judged only on developments or progress in the past 12 months.” ThoughtFarmer has progressed tremendously in the past year, from both a technical and business perspective. It’s great to have that recognized!

The judges explain their selection of ThoughtFarmer as follows:

A winner last year, ThoughtFarmer “is still great, although they’ve got some tough competition. Still, it has a solid team, smart products and really cool marketing,” according to O’Connor Clarke. Trgovac also sees “lots of competition in the marketplace” but also calls ThoughtFarmer “one of the best social intranet applications I’ve seen, with a great interface and features.”

The full list of winners:

1. FreshBooks
2. Myca Health
3. CoveritLive
4. Viigo
5. Radian6
6. Filemobile
7. BoardSuite
8. NowPublic
9. Tungle
10. HootSuite
11. ThoughtFarmer
12. AfterCAD Online
13. TeamPages
14. The Manufacturing Innovation Network
15. Well.ca
16. Clarity Accounting
17. Voices.com
18. Taglocity
19. PollStream
20. Pixton

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 Comments Off

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.

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.