About Contact Web Strategy Vault Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing Jeremiah Owyang discusses how web tools and social media enable companies to connect with customers List of “White Label” or “Private Label” (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms, Community Platforms February 12th, 2007 | Category: White Label Social Network , Industry Index , Social Networking Left Graphic: Forrester Wave™: Community Platforms, Q1 ’09 Important Update:

According to the Gartner report, “Although value network analysis has been a viable analysis technique for close to 10 years, previously there were no applications that users could employ to explore value network interactions from multiple viewpoints.” In another scenario, Boeing completely revamped its organizational and business model for commercial flight operations test and validation in preparation for release of the 787 Dreamliner. About the Gartner Cool Vendor Designation Gartner defines a Cool Vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are:

The notes below are vendor supplied comments to the earlier post, I just wanted to call them out rather than see the information lost in the comment section. SocialCast (Vendor Supplied info) Our application and data center network environments are designed to deter, detect, and deny unauthorized access. Yammer, despite multiple requests, did not respond to my earlier post on the need for tools in this category to support policy, integration, security and other capabilities expected by enterprise decision-makers. Someone mentioned identi.ca

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This means that applications like Textprocessing, Spreadsheets, Wiki, Blog, Voice and Video over IP, collaboration software in general is made available as so-called “Web 2.0? applications — now called “Cloud Applications” on the web. When using these services, there is a severe risk of Vendor Lock-In — since the applications may not be available elsewhere, you cannot easily switch the provider. From Ralf Schlatterbeck’s Austrian “Runtux” blog : The original article comes with many links.

The research project was conducted by the Online Community Research Network , and was created to provide insight about customer attitudes towards online community platform and service vendors, particularly around satisfaction. Online Community Vendors were not allowed to respond to the survey instrument, as the project was intended to study customer attitudes and issues. The Online Community Platform and Services Satisfaction research project was initiated in January of 2009 and published in March. Further, we wanted to explore the unmet needs in the online community platform

tactical decision to rely on a blog vendor becomes more complicated when that vendor then expands their tool to include a wiki. Small vendors need to survive so it's no surprise that they will expand their offerings but that creates additional overlap with enterprise infrastructure and may cause the decision to be re-evaluated. blog vendor, wiki vendor) and think more along the lines of a "social platform" (e.g., Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0

Communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow Used correctly, communities can impact the top and bottom line of company’s financials: from brands encouraging customers to self-support each other (reducing costs), to spreading word of mouth to each other (efficient marketing and increased sales) to crowd sourcing innovation (streamlining R&D) communities matter more than ever –especially during a recession. What you must do before you select a vendor Many of our clients follow the POST methdology , which is a framework for them to first understand the People they’re

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Most IM systems and applications also support some form of group chat. People not involved in the instant messaging or group chat session cannot view the content of those communications through the IM client applications. IM systems also allow for file transfer and some vendors provide advanced functionality (e.g., Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). It's a great question - my thoughts below: