Blogs

Forbes - How Mobile is Rapidly Evolving the World

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:01:36 +0000

The first time I can remember realizing how critical mobile phones were to people was back in 2006, while I was working in India. It was a blistering summer, and I'd heard the news that rural farmers were waiting in mile long lines to bring their produce to market; most had to spend the night catching what sleep they could on their bullock carts.…

- Author: Christine Gondos

IT in Canada - Social Media And Collaboration: Ask Not 'Why?' But 'How?'

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:11:43 +0000

It wasn't all that long ago - perhaps only a year or two - that organizations began to think that social media just might have a role to play in enterprise collaboration. But of course, in technology time, a year or two is an eon. Now businesses are well past asking, "What is social media?" and they're deep into the more challenging (and…

- Author: Christine Gondos

CMSWire - Sharing is Caring: Learn What Works, What Doesn't

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:21:19 +0000

At J.Boye 2012, it was made clear that sharing is caring. Whether it's information about what's working or what isn't, it's essential that everyone from development teams to sales and marketing to community managers share insights so as to help everyone innovate and make improvements. Session after session, valuable information about mobile web…

- Author: Christine Gondos

Enterprise Strategy Group - Social Platforms

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:30:22 +0000

Social platforms are helping to enable the creation of socially enabled enterprise applications. Just as developers integrate a database or web server to provide a set of services for their applications, social platforms supply social features. Whether enhancing current processes or creating new ones, social platforms provide the underpinnings for…

- Author: Christine Gondos

Tech Target - Enterprise Must-Have: Better Social Media Integration

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:21:31 +0000

Enterprise social media improves employee communication and makes collaboration easier. But ensuring seamless social media integration into an employee's workflow is another story.

Employees use email and instant messaging, in addition to social networking sites like Twitter, to get their jobs done, but switching back and forth between disparate…

- Author: Christine Gondos

The Customer Collective - 4 Key Features Your Social Intranet Should Have

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:15:00 +0000

In speaking with Dan Latendre the CEO of IGLOO Software, I've become versed on collaboration tools, and most importantly, the distinctions between many of them. Igloo develops securely stored social, collaborative business solutions that can be used for employees, business partners and customers. Delivered in the cloud, the company's social…

- Author: Christine Gondos

Social Media Today - 5 Key Considerations for Your Business Social Intranet

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:56:43 +0000

IGLOO Software is a company that develops social software providing online business communities. Providing a powerful suite of content management, collaboration and knowledge sharing tools, the cloud-based service gives employees, partners, and customers a voice in their business activities.

In speaking with Dan Latendre the CEO of the company,…

- Author: Christine Gondos

Technorati - The 5 Pillars of Collaboration

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:32:10 +0000

Igloo Software is a company that develops securely stored social, collaborative business solutions that can be used for employees, business partners and customers. Delivered in the cloud, the company's social software includes an integrated suite of content management, collaboration and enterprise social networking features.

Canadian-based, you…

- Author: Stephen Rahal

Ragan - 4 Features Every Intranet Should Have

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:43:42 +0000

You probably already know it's a good idea for companies to have social intranets.

In a time when many employees travel, work remotely, or are part of global brands, social intranets create sense of community and bring employees-and their knowledge-together.

A new white paper from IGLOO Software (pdf) explains the benefits of a social intranet,…

- Author: Christine Gondos

Practical Collaboration - The Killer App for Social Collaboration

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:02:48 +0000

Activity streams (micro-blogging) put the social in social collaboration tools. There are many features in a social collaboration platform that enable users to streamline communication and effectively engage without using email or other communication platforms. None of these tools has the singular capability that the activity stream has. Often…

- Author: Christine Gondos