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We are very pleased to announce the promotion of a true Telligent leader, Kristin Reichert, to the role of Chief Financial Officer. During her time at Telligent, Kristin’s contribution has been impressive; and her financial experience supports Telligent’s future growth plans. Prior to...

Right now, there is an evolution in the conversation around community. The subjects of discussion are evolving from features and functions to value proposition. However, urgency must be tempered with preparation. A community can only grow on a solid foundation of tools married with clear purpose....

With global expansion, new customers and new talent, I am pleased to report Telligent's record-breaking sales quarter ending January 31, 2011. We have experienced a lot of growth and innovation so far this year with the addition of the Paris office, and the launch of our new thought leadership series...

“Computer mediated collective action” is a term that was coined in the " Picturing Usenet: Mapping Computer-Mediated Collective Action ” research paper, published in 2005 and co-authored by Dr. Marc Smith , Chief Social Scientist of Telligent. Before social networking, before online...

While the modern “ social networking ” meme (as opposed to the classic “ social network ” and “ online communities ” memes) appears to have been caught in a hype cycle , the “collaboration” meme seems to have gone through ebbs, flows, and pendulum swings...

Yes, I said it. And here’s why. A couple of days ago, I posted the following tweet : Disintermediation Brought to You by Lance Amstrong http://bit.ly/13umSc (by @jtwinsor ) ["Celebrity 2.0" authenticity over fakery/posery!] Then I came across the “ What Will Social...

As I had described in a blog entry a few weeks ago, being “social” is just one aspect of the modern business life cycle . In this post, I highlight several different kinds of connections that people may have within teams, communities, and networks that are more than just social and not the...

Todd Defren ’s “ Audience Targeting in Social Media ” blog entry compelled me to finish my own post on the topic that’s been stuck in my Drafts folder for the past few months. In the modern business life cycle of the Web 2.0 era, people are much more connected in breadth and...

I don’t know if Dion gets any creative design help for the charts in his blog entries , but I always look forward to seeing them. Here are my favorites (in logical order from my perspective) that are worth at least a thousand words on my or anyone else’s blog.

I just read Matt Rhode’s “ Build your own community or go where people are? Do both ” blog entry and was compelled to add to it with my own blog entry beyond just my usual retweet gesture because this issue has become an FAQ lately for many organizations I’ve talked to. My answer...

A couple of things caught my attention during the past week. Community Self-Sustainability First, it was Joel Oleson’s “ SharePoint Community Evolution ” blog entry, which highlights some of the key reasons for why the SharePoint community continues to flourish and grow even in...

Dion Hinchcliffe is spot on (as usual) in his blog entry about 12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business , which is definitely a must-read. However, "social business" or “making a business more social” is just one aspect of the modern business life cycle. Being social...

[Yes, today is April Fool’s Day, but this is most definitely not a joke. I had thought about posting tomorrow, but this news is simply too exciting to wait even for just one more day.] Facebook is now growing so quickly (getting nearly a million new members each day!) that the New York Times...

Or what your employees are really doing? Are they collaborating? Are they sharing their insights and knowledge? Are they even communicating with each other? At Telligent, we use Community Server Evolution to power our intranet (and we also have Microsoft SharePoint). Since we're all fairly busy...

Individually, the bios of the 1900 or so followers that I have on Twitter wouldn't reveal much about what kind of person I am or what topics I most often tweet about, but in aggregate and in the form of a word cloud (courtesy of http://tweetsheep.com ), some keywords emerge. Here's the word...

[Update: The title for this blog entry should be renamed to "using topic clouds to reveal order from complexity " since chaos by definition cannot have order. Thanks to @erobillard for pointing that out .] As the amount of digital and social media content continues to increase exponentially...

"Why?" is the most profound question that anyone can ask about anything. Here are two of my favorite answers to the question, "Why?" from the movie, The Matrix Reloaded . The Merovingian answers his rhetorical question to Morpheus, " Do you know why you're here? "...