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American Institute of CPAs Partners with Telligent to Increase Membership with Online Social Networking

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

AICPA improves membership recruitment via a unified social marketing campaign with Telligent Community and Telligent Analytics

Dallas, TX – February 6, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, partnered with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to create the leading social networking site for aspiring accountants, This Way to CPA, which is designed to increase awareness of and drive recruitment efforts for AICPA.

“We are expanding our reach with social networking to encourage talented students to invest in becoming a CPA and eventually a member of the AICPA,” said Scott Moore, Sr. Manager, College and University Initiatives, AICPA. “This Way to CPA is a one-stop shop for accounting students to network with peers and discuss career-related topics.”

This Way to CPA is a first-of-its-kind online community that supports the personal development of accounting students and the profession by giving students a place to network with professionals and peers and discuss important topics such as how to land internships, what the accounting career path is like and advice for passing the CPA exam . Almost 23,000 people visit the community each month and over 57% return to the site to stay connected to the community and build relationships with peers.

“This Way to CPA weaves a conversational, fun personality into a creatively-designed community that provides immense value to students,” said Justin Couto, CEO of Couto Solutions, an elite design development firm that designed and implemented AICPA’s online community.

AICPA integrates its community website to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to ensure that members know how and where to stay involved with AICPA. AICPA encourages discussions on popular social media sites and drives potential and current members to its community for more in depth accounting conversations and access to exclusive opportunities, like scholarship opportunities and group accounting competitions.

With this unified social media strategy, AICPA creates more meaningful, manageable interactions that it can measure and evaluate. 19% of visitors return five times or more each month, which shows that community members are actively digesting content and becoming highly engaged with AICPA’s messaging.

“AICPA is a model for organizations trying to figure out how to create a unified, manageable strategy for social media and technology,” said Wendy Gibson, Chief Marketing Officer, Telligent. “AICPA is positioned to increase its member base because it is building strong bonds with the incoming Generation Y workforce and delivering value.”

Read the full case study here.

Telligent Community is social community software designed for flexibility in building customer-facing communities that achieve your business objectives for improving customer support, building brand loyalty and strengthening member networks.

Telligent Analytics is social intelligence software that analyzes and measures community activity so that you can glean valuable insights about how your community is succeeding and uncover areas that need improvement.

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About AICPA

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (www.aicpa.org), founded in 1887, is the world’s largest association representing the accounting profession, with nearly 377,000 members in 128 countries. AICPA members represent many areas of practice, including business and industry, public practice, government, education, and consulting; membership is also available to accounting students and CPA candidates. The AICPA sets ethical standards for the profession and U.S. auditing standards for audits of private companies, non-profit organizations, federal, state and local governments. It develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination.

The AICPA maintains offices in New York, Washington, DC, Durham, N.C., Ewing, N.J. and Lewisville, Texas.

About Couto Solutions

Telligent is what we focus on! Telligent Help is what we provide to you! Telligent Solutions are what we are made of! Couto Solutions is a design development firm that specializes in creating enterprise class community solutions on the Telligent Platform. Couto Solutions is the leading Telligent Partner building custom Telligent Themes, Custom Telligent Modules, and selling the best Telligent Add-Ons and Telligent Widgets available today. Simply stated, Couto Solutions ROCKS the Telligent! For more information, visit www.CoutoSolutions.com.

About Telligent

One of the pioneers in enterprise social community and workforce collaboration software, Telligent helps companies worldwide to implement social communities for their employees, customers and partners. Its powerful community development platform allows customers and partners to customize their community experiences and build award-winning applications on top of the platform.

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

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Microsoft and Telligent Offer Joint Digital Marketing Solution that Fuses Social + Websites Together on a Single, Unified Platform

Tiffany Henry — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:00 GMT

To Support Offering, Telligent and Microsoft Announce the Get Social Tour + Social Workshop Days that will Equip Customers with the Foundation and Tools to Get Social in 2012

DALLAS, Texas — January 31, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced educational programs and a unique product offering to help its customers accelerate their social strategy in areas where their organization can benefit the most. As Microsoft’s vendor of choice to bring social community into its Digital Marketing Platform, Telligent worked with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft’s best-in-class web content management and search functionality into its leading online social community platform offerings.

“Businesses across the board are scrambling to understand social technology’s place in the enterprise, and how to implement and receive the most value from a social strategy. To support this need, Microsoft has partnered with Telligent to create a unique package that includes educational programs, events and an exclusive product offering called Telligent Social Suite for SharePoint that integrates Telligent Community with Microsoft’s web content management and search capabilities,” said Jon Allen, Microsoft Partner Manager at Telligent.

This strategic relationship with Microsoft presents social community in a unique package that will be of significant value to customers in terms of ease of implementation, cost efficiency, and leveraging their existing SharePoint investment. The package simultaneously accelerates social activates in areas where companies will benefit the most which include, social support, social marketing, and social extranets. These packages can be viewed on Telligent’s website.

To introduce organizations to social concepts and help them get started with accelerating their social activities, Telligent is offering one, three and five day Social Workshops. The Social Workshops are designed to explore ways to optimize customer engagement using social. As an additional asset to understanding the benefits of social, organizations will also be able to choose from several handpicked partners that have expertise developing strategies and implementing Telligent and Microsoft investments together.

Specifically, these workshops will educate organizations on the basics of social and how to design and implement an online community. Current SharePoint customers can use SharePoint Deployment Planning Services to schedule a workshop with Telligent, or companies can work directly with Telligent to schedule workshops.

Additionally, to further help organizations understand the growing importance of social and how online communities can be beneficial if executed correctly, Telligent is kicking off its Get Social Tour. This six-city tour will start on March 6, 2012 in Dallas. The tour will then move to New York, Irvine, Paris, London and will conclude in Munich.

The Get Social Tour will educate attendees on the key characteristics of a world class community, give organizations insight into how corporate-owned communities differ from, but also complement, popular social networking sites, and explain how organizations can enhance their existing SharePoint investments to provide a social offering that will be most beneficial to their organization.

“Social is the new normal. Customers and partners have come to expect social engagement from the companies they work with, and its adoption will only continue to increase moving forward,” said Rob Howard, Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Telligent. “The Get Social Tour outlines the importance of online communities and Telligent’s workshops educate companies, not on technology, but instead on how social is a key component for generating more leads, increasing the number of products sold, enabling customers to provide self-service support and connecting employees within an organization.”

Visit telligent.com to register for an upcoming Get Social City Event or Social Workshop and learn more about Telligent Social Suite for SharePoint.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

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Telligent Invests in Customer and Partner Development with Its Newly Debuted E-Learning Community; Pathway to Obtain Certification Offered as Additional Benefit

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:15:00 GMT

Telligent helps customers and partners get the most out of social with the launch of Telligent University

(DALLAS, TX) January 25, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced the launch of its first online training program, Telligent University.

As part of Telligent’s commitment to customer and partner support, the new community offers on-demand e-learning for both administrators and developers. Through Telligent’s comprehensive courses, developers and administrators will be trained in building world-class communities uniquely tailored to their brands’ specific business requirements.

“We are so happy to offer our customers and partners a new learning environment that will take them beyond our on-site training; with Telligent University we can provide social learning anytime and anywhere,” said Randy Skinner, Chief Operating Officer at Telligent. “The valuable content included in the e-learning community will allow Telligent customers and partners to maximize the full potential of our products and gain exclusive knowledge from our team of experts.”

Telligent University, an e-learning community built on the Telligent Evolution platform, boasts 250 modules, lessons and training videos. Customers can review what they want, when they want, because there is no limit to how many times coursework or Telligent’s searchable content, training videos, and three-to-five minute lesson plans can be accessed. The program also offers learning checkpoints where students can test their understanding of key topics.

The learning experience includes extensive coverage of Telligent’s core products - Telligent Community, Telligent Enterprise and Telligent Evolution. This means faster, more convenient training for customers and a streamlined path to certification for partners.

An additional benefit of the learning environment is that it offers the option to obtain certification on Telligent software. There are two types of certified programs offered – developer and architect. Both certification programs include the training sessions and online certification.

Contact a specialist to learn more about Telligent University, the certification programs or to sign up today.

About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

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Tiffany Henry
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Elena Savvides
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+44 (0) 203 178 3012

Telligent Acquires Leverage Software; Furthering Telligent’s Leadership in Enterprise Social Software

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:13:00 GMT

Telligent’s Acquisition Signals Social Market Consolidation and
Fuels Company Growth

(DALLAS, TX) December 19, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced its acquisition of San Francisco-based Leverage Software, a leader in enterprise social networking.

“We are particularly thrilled to gain the leading cloud technology, people-centered design, prestigious customer list and employee talent that Leverage brings,” says Telligent CEO Patrick Brandt. “Telligent and Leverage have roots as pure-play social community providers; consolidation in the market is natural and it’s how we grow together.”

Leverage is recognized as a pioneer in social on-demand (SaaS) with well-known customers including The Home Depot, Redken, Wells Fargo, and Stanford University that rely on its cloud-based social networking capabilities for outward customer as well as internal employee uses including field sales and marketing enablement.

“It’s becoming more and more obvious that social is the new norm. Just look at the extraordinary adoption rates of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter,” says Brandt. “We continue to see proof that companies are experiencing enormous real benefit with social; evident by the sheer number of success stories illustrating how businesses are reaping benefit by engaging customers, facilitating partners and enabling employees.”

According to Forrester Research, the social enterprise apps market will approach $6.4B by 2016. (1) Moreover, Forrester recognized Telligent as a leader in its “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011” report earlier this year. (2)

Telligent and Leverage management anticipate a seamless integration. “Both Telligent and Leverage share a similar business culture around devotion to customer success, and both are built on Microsoft technology. Our respective customers will reap the benefits of our shared services, talent and technology,” says Leverage founder Joe Kleinschmidt.

Kleinschmidt, who will join the Telligent team as Vice President of Cloud Products, adds that Telligent will expand services and functionality for existing Leverage customers in the following ways:

The ability to tap into a large customer community of brands that are industry pioneers and innovators in adopting social across their global organizations
Access to highly rated customer experience and support as well as Telligent’s expanded services offerings around implementation, training and educational programs
Becoming part of a larger partner ecosystem comprised of application developers, digital agencies and system integrators

“We are shaping the next decade of social,” explains Rob Howard founder and CTO of Telligent. “Telligent and Leverage are expanding our platform capabilities, delivering social anywhere – on your website, smartphone, or your corporate intranet – and we are accelerating our ability to do it in the cloud.”

Catapult Advisors LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Leverage Software on the transaction.

(1) Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration, Forrester Research, Inc., November 30 2011.

(2) The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., August 24, 2011.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

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Tiffany Henry
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Elena Savvides
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+44 (0) 203 178 3012

Telligent Appoints Scott Kirkland as Vice President of Product Management

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:01:00 GMT

(DALLAS, TX) December 12, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that Scott Kirkland will join the company as Vice President of Product Management. In his new role, Kirkland will be responsible for product management, solution engineers and Telligent’s customer advisory board.

Kirkland brings more than 15 years of experience in technology marketing, sales and product management. Prior to joining Telligent, Kirkland served as Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Apptricity. Kirkland also served as Vice President of Product Management for Global 360. At Global 360, he drove the product strategy for the company’s industry-leading suite of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. He also held leadership positions at Cisco Systems and the United States Air Force.

“Because of Scott’s experience and leadership, I see him contributing knowledge and expertise that will help our company gain efficiencies in execution, provide break-through social community software, while also enhancing the experiences of our current and future customers, says Rob Howard, Telligent Founder & CTO.

“I am honored to be a part of such a customer-focused company,” states Kirkland. “I look forward to helping Telligent continue to build on innovation by working with the Product Management team and customers to provide industry-leading social software.”

Kirkland obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy (West Point) and an MBA from Auburn University.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://www.telligent.com.

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Telligent Media Contacts

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Tiffany Henry
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Elena Savvides
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+44 (0) 203 178 3012

CORE4 Research Transforms Market Research with Telligent

Tiffany Henry — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

CORE4 Research improves retail marketing campaigns and sales with Telligent Community

Fayetteville / Dallas – November 22, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that CORE4 Research leverages Telligent Community as its technology of choice for conducting consumer market research in an online community.

“Companies are looking for ways to tap into their customer base and discover what consumers think about and expect from their brands,” said Suzanne Clark, Operations Manager, CORE4 Research. “We enable our clients to improve their marketing strategies and sales tactics by engaging retail consumers and capturing their feedback on new products, packaging and shopping habits in our Livebranch community.”

Compared to traditional research methods, conducting market research in online communities is a quick and cost-efficient method for researchers to gather and analyze consumer feedback. Companies identify higher quality feedback from shoppers because they are more open and honest with their opinions online. In addition, companies can act on customer feedback rapidly now that research projects take days and weeks, rather than weeks and months.

“Understanding what customers want is critical to a company’s success,” said Wendy Gibson, Chief Marketing Office, Telligent. “CORE4 Research creates an engaging and effective way of gathering market insight that equips organizations to exceed customer expectations.”

Constellation Research recently selected Henry Ho, Partner at CORE4 Research, as a SuperNova award winner for its 2011 SuperNova Awards. Nominated in the social business category, Constellation recognized CORE4 Research as a pioneer in emerging and disruptive technologies based on its use of the Livebranch research community.

“We are impressed by the level of passion and commitment by the award winners for not only applying disruptive technologies but also sharing in how they’ve overcome the odds inside their organizations to create a climate for innovation and success”, stated R “Ray” Wang, Principal Analyst & CEO, Constellation Research, Inc.

Hear from the experts directly and register for CORE4 Research’s free webinar to sharpen your market research skills on Wednesday November 30, 2011.

Telligent Community is social community software designed for flexibility in building customer-facing communities that achieve your business objectives for improving customer support, building brand loyalty and strengthening member networks.

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About CORE4 Research

CORE4 Research is a full-service research provider specializing in qualitative and quantitative shopper research. Our experienced staff helps clients better understand their shoppers' desires, needs, motivations, and behaviors to better market their products in the retail space.

About Telligent

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Issaquah School District Selects Telligent for Education Community

Tiffany Henry — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Issaquah School District Looks Forward to Enhancing Learning With

Telligent Community

Dallas, TX – November 3, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, announced that Issaquah School District has decided to expand its pioneering online community that connects educators, parents and students in its district with Telligent Community.

“We’re excited to expand our interactive educational community as our school district grows,” said Colleen Dixon, Executive Director of Educational Technology. “Our online community expands the educational process to include an interactive, ongoing dialogue among students, parents and teachers that helps us prepare students for an evolving world.”

Students, parents and teachers are learning to use Issaquah School District’s innovative online community to share information, post upcoming events, track school assignments and discuss curriculum. An online community offers additional choices to parents and students by centralizing school updates and homework for students and can increase parent-teacher involvement.

“Issaquah School District is pushing the boundaries of education through online engagement,” said John Rabara, VP, Customer Care at Telligent. “We are thrilled to support the platform that creates a transparent, collaborative learning experience and gives students a competitive edge in the global economy.”

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About Issaquah School District

The Issaquah School District is educating the innovators, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders of tomorrow. Students here set the state and national high-water mark for standardized test scores, but Issaquah teachers aim for more. They create passionate lifelong learners who want to achieve their personal and professional potential in a rapidly changing world.

The district has grown with Issaquah over the past 100 years as the city transformed from a sleepy mining town to the heart of a vibrant economic and cultural region. Over 17,000 students are now enrolled in the district’s 24 schools, which cover a span of 110 square miles in seven municipalities.

About Telligent

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Tyler Technologies Selects Telligent for Online Support Community

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Tyler Clients to Benefit from Enhanced Online Communications, Information-Sharing

DALLAS – November 2, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) has selected Telligent Community to provide an online support community centered on Tyler’s information management solutions and services for local governments.

“With Telligent Community, we have created an online support community that’s available to our clients 24/7, empowering them to interact with their peers in common functions, and find product and support information whenever they need it,” said Dane Womble, chief operating officer of Tyler’s Local Government Division. “A vibrant online community creates a channel for client collaboration, feedback and suggestions that ultimately can help improve the solutions and services Tyler provides to our public sector clients.”

Telligent Community is social community software designed for flexibility in building customer-facing communities that achieve enterprises’ objectives for improving customer support, building brand loyalty and strengthening member networks.

“We look forward to helping Tyler Technologies deliver enhanced product support as part of the overall client experience,” said Cecilia Edwards, Senior Vice President, Client Services at Telligent. “Tyler’s strategy for incorporating Telligent Community into its client services is a testament to how online communities add value across business units within an organization.”

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About Tyler Technologies, Inc.

Based in Dallas, Tyler Technologies is a leading provider of end-to-end information management solutions and services for local governments. Tyler partners with clients to empower the public sector — cities, counties, schools and other government entities — to become more efficient, more accessible and more responsive to the needs of citizens. Tyler’s client base includes more than 10,000 local government offices throughout all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. Forbes has named Tyler one of “America’s Best Small Companies” four times in the last five years. More information about Tyler Technologies can be found at www.tylertech.com.

About Telligent

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+44 (0) 203 178 3012

Telligent Builds on Microsoft Integration Momentum – Scheduled to Exhibit Telligent Enterprise and Microsoft SharePoint Integration at KMWorld 2011

Tiffany Henry — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:26:00 GMT

Telligent Founder & CTO Named a Leading, Influential SharePoint Thought Leader

(DALLAS, TX) Oct. 27, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the upcoming KMWorld 2011 Conference in Washington DC. Telligent will showcase its latest Telligent Enterprise 3.0 suite including how it integrates with Microsoft SharePoint to provide a unified social platform for employee collaboration. KMWorld recently recognized Telligent Enterprise by naming it as a Trend-Setting Product of 2011.

Three other conferences will be co-located and happening concurrently with KMWorld. Among these is SharePoint Symposium, an intensive, two-day conference designed to enable attendees to determine how, when and why to use SharePoint. Attendees of the SharePoint Symposium will have access to Telligent’s booth, where they can learn more about how to combine the best people-centric social community software from Telligent with the powerful document-centric collaboration from SharePoint.

“We design our software to fit seamlessly within our customers’ and prospective customers’ existing technology infrastructures,” explains Rob Howard, Telligent Founder & CTO. “With Microsoft’s more than 100 million SharePoint licenses sold worldwide, providing integration with SharePoint is a major focal point for our company.”

Howard’s focus on SharePoint is evidenced by him being recently named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential SharePoint Thought Leaders in Social Business Today” by social email software provider harmon.ie®. According to harmon.ie® the SharePoint Most Influential (SMI) formula measures influence using a weighted average across a range of metrics including Alexa, Klout Influence, Google Page Rank, PeerIndex, HowSociable and Twitter Followers.

Earlier this month, Howard attended Microsoft’s SharePoint 2011 conference where the big story was integration. Reflecting on the conference Howard says, “Enterprises are reevaluating their corporate strategies and, as a result, social is quickly becoming a C-level priority.” Howard continues, “There’s a sense of urgency and realization that social needs to be incorporated with corporate strategy and fit with the internal tools and departmental processes companies already have in place. Telligent brings to the table the ‘social glue’ that does exactly this. Companies that understand and execute a clear social strategy will be the ones that define the next generation of business,” sums Howard.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

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Telligent Media Contacts

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Tiffany Henry
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Elena Savvides
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+44 (0) 203 178 3012

Telligent Receives Strategic Investment from Investec

Tiffany Henry — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:00 GMT

Johannesburg, South Africa and Dallas, Texas – October 25, 2011 — Investec Bank Limited (JSE: INL, LSE: INVP), an international specialist banking and asset management group, announced today it has made a strategic investment in Telligent Systems, Inc., a leading provider of social community software for the enterprise.

“The Investec brand is incredibly strong internationally and gives Telligent another truly global partner.” said Patrick Brandt, CEO of Telligent. “To have Investec as a customer is exceptionally rewarding, but to have Investec join with Intel Capital, our primary investor, as a key strategic investor in Telligent validates the strong interest in enterprise social community software and the spreading adoption across all key verticals and global markets.”

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About Investec

Investec is an international specialist and asset managment group, providing a range of financial products and services to a select client base in three principal markets: the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. Listed on the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchange Investec is a FTSE 100 company.

Investec's South African headquarters are at 100 Grayston Drive Sandown, Sandton.

Investec's UK headquarters are at 2 Gresham Street in Central London.

For more information about Investec please visit their website.

About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

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Wendy Gibson
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Telligent Names Randy Skinner as Chief Operating Officer

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Dallas, TX – October 19, 2011 — Telligent today announced that Randy Skinner will join the company as Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Skinner will be responsible for Telligent’s customers’ success by overseeing the departments accountable for client services, education, delivery and customer care. His experience will accelerate the scaling of Telligent’s operations worldwide, as well as the capacity to extend the delivery of successful services engagements and excellent customer experiences. Skinner will report directly to Telligent’s CEO Patrick Brandt.

Skinner joins Telligent after three years at Oracle, where he served as Regional Vice President of Consulting. In that role, he built and managed Oracle’s consulting practice for the insurance global business unit, which represents more than a thousand customers including the top global insurance companies in the world. Skinner has also managed professional services for Oracle’s North American financial services consulting business. Prior to Oracle, Skinner was Chief Operating Officer at Skywire Software and Senior Vice President of Consulting at Docucorp International.

“Randy is a great addition to the Telligent leadership team and will help broaden our global service offerings,” says Brandt. “He stands out in the software industry as a leader with an incredible team track record of delivering successful consulting projects and building lifetime relationships with customers, partners and employees. Randy is passionate about leveraging technology to help customers achieve their goals and improve their business operations.”

“Together, with Patrick and the great team at Telligent, we’ll build upon their accomplishments and strengthen our service offerings to ensure customer and partner success that will uniquely distinguish us in the enterprise social software industry,” says Skinner. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity to work with Telligent’s customers, partners and employees.”

Skinner attended Georgia State University and holds a degree from Control Data Institute. Randy and his wife, Lisa, have three children and enjoy spending time boating, traveling and volunteering with youth of all ages in the Atlanta area.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

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Tiffany Henry
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Elena Savvides
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+44 (0) 203 178 3012

The Big Social Rewind – Telligent Conference Exceeds Expectations and Lives up to its Name

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Strong Infusion of Social and Community Rocks Dallas @ The Big Social; Education, Networking, Innovation and Customer Excellence are Key Themes at the Sold Out Conference

(DALLAS, TX) October 12, 2011 — If one central theme dominated Telligent’s sold-out 2011 conference at the Hyatt Regency last week, it was the overwhelming agreement by speakers and attendees alike that “businesses today must know how to navigate the social ecosystem,” Telligent Founder & CTO Rob Howard proclaimed to the audience full of standing room only attendees.

The Big Social attendees came from as far away as Italy and Australia to hear Howard, considered one of the Top 25 Most Influential SharePoint Thought Leaders in Social Business, present the latest Telligent vision, as well as share best practices that are successfully being used in the enterprise today.

Howard’s points and the general buzz at the conference were echoed by industry analyst Larry Hawes, Principal at Dowbrook Advisory Services. CMSWire journalist, Josette Rigsby interviewed Hawes during the conference, where he talked about his views on the future of social within the enterprise. According to Hawes, “What we have seen in the last couple of years is companies experimenting with social — doing small pilots or different departments within the same organization adopting social technologies for different business reasons. We are quickly leaving the experimentation phase and organizations now are working to tie social technology to support very concrete business objectives and business processes.”

Apptio Director of Online Marketing and Operations Josh Harbert also chimed in on his thoughts about social within the enterprise. “This conference offered great insight into the past, present and future of social within the enterprise,” Harbert says. “The adoption of new social practices at my company and many other companies has been great so far, however in the near future I foresee more companies realizing just how important social is; which I believe will then generate an increased momentum around companies integrating some form of social into their overall business strategy.”

Earlier this year, Telligent announced the launch of its Telligent Enterprise 3.0 and Telligent Community 6.0 suites. Telligent CEO Patrick Brandt says the company has “assertive new developments” which will continue to propel social business forward and continue to carve the social business path for companies.

One such development is Telligent Connect for Facebook, an application for two-way integration between Telligent Community and Facebook.

“Telligent Connect for Facebook enables organizations to benefit from Facebook’s vast online network of more than 800 million people, while bringing the data to an online community that they can manage and own,” Howard explains.

Another industry first announcement was the concept of a pervasive community. It’s the ability to embed any widget from Telligent Community into other websites and applications. The concept is to write-once in Telligent widget studio and re-use it anywhere, as many times as you like.

“The possibilities of where you can add social engagement are now endless – no matter where you need to add social engagement, with this feature, you are now simply able to create widgets and drop them into other apps and websites,” Howard says.

Those two key announcements, alongside Telligent Analytics 4.0, FAST search support, Windows Azure support and the release of the new Telligent Enterprise theme are what will continue to lead and further define what Telligent describes as the ‘social ecosystem.’

In addition to the many product announcements that were made during the conference, attendees were able to gain additional knowledge about Telligent products and social in general during the different sessions that were offered. In just three days, Telligent offered attendees more than 45 opportunities to engage in learning about different aspects of community. The social chatter at The Big Social was so high it hit Dallas’ Twitter trending topics each day during the conference.

Broadridge Senior Product and Community Manager Mike Mostransky was one of Telligent’s customers that was in attendance at the conference. Besides being a registered attendee, he was also one of the speakers for a session in the business track called “Community in Unexpected Places”. In this session he touched on creative uses of communities and how to build a new business by thinking outside the box. “For me, there’s nothing better than picking up tips from other community managers. Telligent’s emphasis on having customers tell their stories during sessions, versus your standard “how-to seminars”, made this event stand out to me,” Mostransky says.

Throughout the sessions and workshops, speakers shared best practices, case studies and supporting demos about session topics ranging from how to plan, manage and implement a community to a comprehensive overview of the Telligent Evolution platform. Developer jam sessions enabled attendees to gain 1:1 training and learning experience for their business and technical challenges.

“At Telligent we are very ‘BIG’ on social, and community, so it’s only natural to go all out for a conference where our customers and partners are the focal point,” Brandt explains. “From the atmosphere and décor being Texas themed to the authentic barbecue served at The Big Social party to living up to our pledge of customer excellence; we made it a top priority to make sure that the ‘BIG’ aspect of The Big Social was felt by all attendees.”

This fall Telligent will announce the date for The Big Social ‘12.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

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Investec Banks on Telligent to Provide Enterprise Social Community Software for its Global Workforce

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:00:00 GMT

International financial services group is transforming the way employees work by enabling them with a comprehensive social platform that integrates Microsoft technologies with Telligent

Dallas, TX – October 5, 2011 — Telligent, the leader in social community software for the enterprise, announced that Investec has selected Telligent for its global company-wide social networking and collaboration software platform.

Investec, an international specialist bank and asset management group located in Johannesburg, South Africa, wanted to find a single solution that would help its employees expand their social and professional networks, capture and share collective knowledge and work together across departments and regions.

“In choosing a strategic global social solution, it was critical for Investec to select the most innovative social platform that can be used internally and externally while leveraging the investments we made in our existing infrastructure, including Microsoft technologies. And that is why Telligent was ultimately chosen,” said Jacques Barkhuizen, Investec Group CTO.

When fully leveraged throughout the enterprise, Telligent’s solutions allow companies to deploy a ‘social layer’ across the organization utilizing social tools to connect IT, business leaders, employees and customers. Telligent also offers a unique, but valuable, proposition for customers with strong Microsoft investments. Not only is Telligent developed on Microsoft, it also integrates with key technologies like Microsoft SharePoint, FAST, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Office and notably powers dozens of global Microsoft communities.

“Our vision is to offer our employees a sole collaboration tool that can be easily configured to meet their needs, but at the same time delivers on Investec’s organization goals of improving knowledge, communication and information management,” added Barkhuizen.

“Customers like Investec are able to realize a better ROI on their existing third-party applications and Microsoft assets by leveraging Telligent’s compatible enterprise-grade social technologies,” explained Patrick Brandt, Telligent CEO. “We are very pleased that Investec selected Telligent and look forward to helping them deploy social across their enterprise and achieve their strategic business objectives.”

Investec’s initial rollout will include Telligent Enterprise, Telligent Evolution and Telligent Connect integration with SharePoint, Lync, Active Directory and other key Microsoft technologies.

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About Investec

Investec is an international specialist banking and asset management group, providing a range of financial products and services to a select client base in three principal markets: the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. Listed on the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchange Investec is a FTSE 100 company.

Investec's South African headquarters are at 100 Grayston Drive Sandown, Sandton. Investec's UK headquarters are at 2 Gresham Street in Central London.

For more information about Investec please visit their website.

About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

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Broadridge and Telligent Team to Deliver Innovative Social Community Software to Improve Shareholder Communications

Tiffany Henry — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Major Corporations Utilize Innovative Social Technology to Improve Investor Communications and Channel Validated Feedback

(BOSTON/ DALLAS) September 22, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, and Broadridge, a technology services company focused on global capital markets today announced they are the first to improve shareholder communication needs with an online social communication platform—Shareholder Forum.

“Shareholder Forum is not just another online finance message board; it’s an extension to an investor relations website to engage with validated shareholders,” says Mike Mostransky, Senior Product and Community Manager at Broadridge. Broadridge saw the opportunity to improve shareholder communications. Annual shareholder meetings often have underwhelming attendance rates and don’t deliver specific information shareholders want to know. Furthermore, corporate boards have no way to easily and regularly communicate with validated investors.

With Shareholder Forum, built on Telligent Community, Broadridge is providing a new way for public companies to facilitate open and transparent investor discussions that improve visibility into shareholder hot topics while protecting investor privacy. Broadridge enables some of the world’s largest brands to use its online community to enhance investor relations and communication while maintaining security and privacy standards. Best Buy and Coca-Cola rely on Shareholder Forum to enrich the investor experience and enable validated shareholders to share ideas anytime, anywhere.

Richard J. Daly, CEO of Broadridge, is proud to provide the company’s clients an industry-leading communication solution to increase global investor participation and give shareholders access to directors between annual meetings. Daly adds, “Our new Shareholder Forum makes broader information more readily and more cost-effectively available to boards, management, and shareholders and enhances the overall communications process throughout the year.”

Shareholder Forum features many social tools such as Q&A forums, blogs, videos, ratings, surveys and more. Additionally, Telligent’s innovative technology easily integrates with Broadridge’s existing applications and provides flexible privacy settings so corporations can respect stringent security policies mandated by the SEC.

“Our goal has always been to provide a solid, sustainable and secure platform to support our customers’ creative and unique needs for social community software,” says Wendy Gibson, Chief Marketing Officer at Telligent. “Connecting corporations to investors in a meaningful social way is a game-changer for the financial services industry. Broadridge is a leader in adopting social technologies in the financial services industry to improve shareholder communications.”

Going forward, Broadridge plans to expand its mobile strategy and continue to evolve its Shareholder Forum communities, allowing clients to benefit from the efficiencies and conveniences of social engagement. Read more about Broadridge’s Shareholder Forum in its case study on Telligent.com.

This announcement is being released during Forrester’s Content & Collaboration Forum 2011, “Unleash The Mobile Workforce,” in Boston. Social communities are appearing and adding value in new and sometimes unexpected places, including the workplace and financial services.

Later this month, Broadridge will showcase its leadership in online communities with a session on “Community in Unexpected Places,” best practices for creating a new business by thinking out of the box and deploying social communities, at The Big Social, in Dallas, Texas on September 26 – 28, 2011.

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About Broadridge

Broadridge is a technology services company focused on global capital markets. Broadridge is the market leader enabling secure and accurate processing of information for communications and securities transactions among issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. Broadridge builds the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for over 90% of public companies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $4 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.

About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

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Tech Leader Rob Clyde Joins Telligent’s Board of Directors

Tiffany Henry — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:48:00 GMT

(DALLAS, TX) September 2, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Clyde to the company's board of directors.

Clyde brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a software executive to the growing social business software provider. He is currently the CEO of Adaptive Computing, an intelligent automation software provider for cloud, data center, and high-performance computing environments.

Prior to joining Adaptive Computing, Clyde managed his own consulting company. He also served as both VP & CTO of Symantec for nine years. In his roles at Symantec, he was a key part of the management team that drove the company to grow from slightly under $1B in revenue to over $5B. The stock split three times during his tenure.

“Rob’s expertise in software organizations, innovative developments and technology strategy is invaluable,” explains Patrick Brandt, CEO of Telligent. “We are extremely fortunate to have him as part of our board of directors and look forward to the incredible value and knowledge that we know he will add to Telligent during this significant time of growth at our company.”

Telligent has been a proven leader in social media software for years and was recently recognized by a leading independent firm for its social platform, analytics, and partner network. Since it was founded in 2004 as one of the first entrants into the online social community market, Telligent has consistently released software and services that have revolutionized the way businesses use social media for customer communities and workforce collaboration.

The company has had a very busy and successful summer after debuting a new software platform and compatible enterprise and community suites which were met with industry acclaim from both customers and partners.

This fall, Telligent plans to showcase best practices for building World Class Communities leveraging Telligent Community 6.0 at its annual social conference, The Big Social, in Dallas, Texas on September 26 – 28, 2011.

“Telligent’s growth within the constantly evolving social platform industry has been incredible, and they have continued to prove why they are recognized as an industry leader,” said Clyde. “I look forward to being part of that continued growth and I am confident in the company’s bright future.”

For more information about Telligent and how it can provide superior business results for your company, visit Telligent.

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About Telligent

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

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