Cities that want to jazz up their citizen interactions with social media tools, but have shoestring budgets to work with, should look to the City of Ottawa for inspiration. In June, Ottawa introduced a social media site to engage citizens in city planning at earlier stages [...] read more »

Digital technologies are providing individuals with a powerful, connected voice that exerts a greater influence on government and corporate decision-making. And they are opening up two-way channels of communication that encourage forward-looking organizations to develop [...] read more »

TelecomHUB (www.telecomhub.org) , is the DC area’s largest telecom networking group . This event attracted around 100 mid-to senior level individuals from telecom and technology companies to the social networking program “My Face: Social Networking in the Business Arena”, [...] read more »

From: IT Business Canada

Election season is here again and voters are anxiously seeking information on a range of issues to help them decide how to cast their vote in October.

On the environment front, this year the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) has taken "awareness generation" up a notch. It is helping voters stay informed with a new VoteEnvironment2008.ca Web site.

The site has evolved into a forum for DSF's Nature Challenge community to discuss the upcoming election. It features a community blog, a DSF and friends blog, issue sheets, questions [...] read more »

  

Red Herring Canada hosted its first annual Top 50 Awards, celebrating the most innovative and promising companies in Canada. Adding to the success of the yearly North America 100, Europe 100 and Global 100 events, Red Herring Canada provided an opportunity for the nation's Top 50 companies to deliver their message to the top VCs and other participants throughout North America and abroad.

The nominees were rigidly evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy and integration into their [...] read more »

Sept 4, 2008. From ZDNet

IGLOO Inc. is featured in ZDNet's list of interesting offerings to create online communities, in which blogger Dion Hinchcliffe regards IGLOO as important and has ranked the company number at number 21.

"Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you're on the business side, in IT, or are just trying to build virtual teams around shared goals, online communities are rapidly becoming a popular way to organize people and accomplish work in a highly collaborative [...] read more »

August 31, 2008. KMWorld online.

IGLOO places on KMWorld's Trend Setting Product list of 2008. The list and article are featured in the September 2008 Trend-Setting Product Issue 2008 issue and online, on their website: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/KMWorld-Trend-Setting-Products-of-2008-50459.aspx

Says author says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief, "This year's edition has been compiled through briefings with vendors themselves, along with conversations with analysts, users and system integrators. Our mission selecting this year's products [...] read more »

August 19, 2008. From Eweek Magazine.

See the eWeek Midmarket article.

The trouble with ad collaboration software is that there is nothing ad hoc about setting it up.
Whether it involves Microsoft SharePoint or Lotus Notes from IBM, the setting up of the software usually involves lots of time and the skills of a few select people that have mastered the intricacies of the software.

It’s little wonder that end users are increasingly turning to public Web sites such as Facebook or Twitter to create little ad hoc areas for collaboration. Of course, none of these areas [...] read more »

August 6, 2008. OnDemand Beat.       

Kitchener, Ontario based IGLOO's foundation began with a not-for-profit research centre called the Centre for International Governance(CIGI) founded by Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM)

In 2003, CIGI, created a free online research network called IGLOO (International Governance Leaders and Organizations Online) that connected researchers, practitioners and educators around the world.

By 2008 Igloo.org had further evolved into a for profit firm with a focus on creating On Demand Corporate Social Networking software [...] read more »