The Community Roundtable, a member-based organization for community managers and social business practitioners, refreshed their state of the nation on community management today. The report, entitled The 2011 State of Community Management: From Exploration to Execution, was underwritten, in part, by IGLOO Software and represents a compilation of lessons learned.

Check out some of the study's key takeaways:

• Social business is realized through the combination of social software, process…

In a region that is considered a technology hub, the closest thing to 'Silicon Valley North' and home to the makers of the BlackBerry, IGLOO was recognized as a standout in innovation. Quite the honour!

IGLOO accepted the Innovation Award at the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce annual Business Excellence Awards Gala held on Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Kitchener. With 63 nominees in 11 different categories, the Business Excellence Awards Gala highlights companies and…

This week the Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) announced its first annual International Film Fest, an event that will bring together creative video statements in a global competition to showcase inspiring stories about youth, technology and development.

Here's how it works. Young DOT leaders from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, USA, Mexico and China will become budding video journalists as they document the impact of their work in communities and schools in Africa, the…

According to Toby Ward, President & CEO of Prescient Digital Media, social software contenders are challenging the big three technology vendors' dominance of the intranet technology platform market with solutions that are not traditional portal or CMS solutions, but are social media platforms. In his latest blog post, he takes a quick look at five key social intranet platform vendors to watch in 2011. And IGLOO Software is one of them. Toby states that "IGLOO Software is still a small,…

Gartner recently released a report entitled 'Market Trends: Convergence Restructuring the Enterprise Social Software Market, Worldwide, 2010' which forecasts the growth in the sector. According to Gartner, the market is poised for continued growth in 2011 when revenue is forecast to reach $769.2 million, up 15.7 percent from 2010. Check out the full release below or at the following link: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1497215.

Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise Social Software Revenue…

Exclusive to Ontario researchers, educators and students at universities, colleges, schools and ORION institutions, O3 Collaboration provides members with a virtual space to share knowledge, connect with peers and collaborate privately with a powerful suite of Web 2.0 tools and resources.

Since September seven new research groups have adopted O3 Collaboration to connect members across institutions and around the world, including CERIS; Intersections - New Approaches to Science and Technology…

 Techvibes.com runs a weekly series, called '5 Questions', which profiles influential people in the technology space. You can check out Dan's tips on entrepreneurship and his explanation as to why the K-W Region is such a hotbed for tech startups here: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/5-questionswith-dan-latendre.  

Karim Kanji, the Toronto Community Manager for Techvibes and an entrepreneur, interviewed Dan for the story.

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