February 5, 2010 (Kitchener -Waterloo ON) - IGLOO Inc. (www.igloosoftware.com), a leading social software company that builds online communities for businesses today announced that one of the online communities it powers, the Manufacturing Innovation Network (MIN), won the website award in the "Marketing Using Technology" category from the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) last night.

The MIN is a business social network that powers collaboration and knowledge sharing between...

Join IGLOO Software at the EDCO 2010 Showcase where we will be a part of the premier showcase of products and services for economic development professionals. We will be at booth #18, January 3rd and 4th at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre in Toronto, ON.

Check out the agenda: http://www.edco.on.ca/conference/glance.htm

Manufacturing: A Time for Innovation

Discover a new source of competitive advantage - innovation through local collaboration
 
As a local manufacturer, January 2010 signifies a new year, a new decade - a chance to build connections with local suppliers, learn from industry experts and drive new innovations through collaboration.  The evening will include a keynote presentation by John Keating, Chief Executive Officer, COM DEV and a panel discussion of industry experts and some of the MIN's...

Of the four areas of SaaS security, the concept of pure Data Security is perhaps the hardest to define. In fact all four blogs in this series were about some aspect of keeping your data secure in a SaaS model, but when I think of "data", I think of two quite different concepts:

1. The actual bits and bytes that exist somewhere on your SaaS vendors servers (these bits and bytes can be transmitted, processed and displayed for the application's purposes).
2. The thoughts, ideas and concepts that make up...

To get this article started, I think we need to define what a network is.  To put it simply, the network in a SaaS offering is the infrastructure by which the web browser communicates with the web application. A simple example is connecting to Facebook... where Internet Explorer is the web browser and Facebook is the application.  Most networks include physical components like routers, firewalls, switches and even the actual wires. It also includes the "language" of communication like TCP/IP, HT...

O3 Network does a Q&A with a Community Champion

The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) helps Ontario researchers and educators re-think how they collaborate and interact with colleagues, by providing an online collaboration and professional networking service, using IGLOO's social business software.   Introduced as a value-added service for ORION-connected institutions, the O3 Collaboration uses IGLOO's software platform to give researchers and educators a powerful...

IGLOO will be running a webinar - Extreme Makeover: IGLOO Edition, that will cover 10 easy wins for your online community on December 2nd at 2 pm EST.

If you register now, you have the opportunity to guide the subject matter of the presentation, and we will address pertinent topics having to do with engaging your community members and giving your website design a revitalization.

For more information - please check out the events page: www.igloosoftware.com/events or the event page.

The Manufacturing Innovation Network (MIN), an online community designed, built and powered by IGLOO Software, a leading provider of online community and social software solutions, has just won the "Best in Industry" award by the Web Marketing Association.

The MIN (http://www.waterloomin.com/) is a free online network which facilitates and promotes awareness, excellence and innovation within the Region of Waterloo manufacturing sector. The network connects manufacturing stakeholder groups in an...

IGLOO Software, a leading provider of online community and social software solutions was identified by Gartner as new and evolving niche player in the emerging social software workplace market space.

The Gartner Report assessed social software applications focused solely on internal use amongst employees in an effort to improve productivity through knowledge sharing, networking and collaboration. To be included in this industry leading report, companies were evaluated on such parameters as depth...

IGLOO Software, a leading provider of online community and social software solutions has just been named as one of the top 20 most innovative technology companies in Canada in the fields of information technology and digital media by the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) .

Each year the CIX conducts an exhaustive search to find the 20 most innovative ideas, products, services and companies in Canada.  A selection committee comprised Canadian experts in the fields of finance, investment and...