Jive’s Social Business Software gets another $12M from Sequoia
Jive Software, which uses social networking to help businesses collaborate internally and externally, has raised another $12 million from Sequoia Capital.
Portland, Ore.-based Jive’s products include sites where employees can collaborate, customer discussion forums, and company social networks. Despite being part of the flood of companies offering business social networking tools, Jive seems to have done well. The company says its revenue doubled in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the same period last year… Continue Reading
Jive brings its business software to the Internet cloud
Jive Software, a company that offers collaboration and social networking tools for businesses, is announcing its new product, Jive Express, which is a version of its core product running on the Internet cloud. The goal, says Jive’s Senior Vice President of Products Chris Morace, is to take advantage of the online infrastructure offered by Amazon’s Web Services to make it quick, easy, and affordable to start using Jive, while also avoiding some of the pitfalls… Continue Reading
File-sharing service Drop.io jumps into the streaming game, adds chat
It’s all about things happening in real-time these days. Facebook just announced its new streaming newsfeeds, and Twitter is the media’s darling. It only makes sense for other services to get in on the act while the getting’s good. One such company is online collaboration tool provider Drop.io, which announced today that it will begin updating materials uploaded by users in real time.
So, let’s say a group is working on a project that includes several… Continue Reading
Jive’s Social Business Software makes collaboration easier
Jive Software is announcing the latest release of its collaborative “social” software for businesses. The Portland, Ore. company says version 3.0 of its application package, now called Social Business Software, marks the first time someone can combine internal and external collaboration (i.e., collaboration with the rest of the company and collaboration with partners and customers) by managing them in a single environment.
A year or two ago, there seemed to be a glut of companies offering… Continue Reading
DEMO: How new technology makes us more productive
More companies are catching on to the ways that technologies like the Internet, smartphones, and social networking can help people work with others and get more done.
These ideas become even more compelling in the current economic climate, when it’s a truism that everyone needs to prove they’re productive. That, or they’ll lose their job.
That’s why we’re making “Productivity 2.0″ (a term which sounds a bit gimmicky, but which serves as a convenient shorthand for the… Continue Reading
Awareness launches “best practice” templates for social marketing
“Social media marketing” is one of those catchphrases that sets off every right-thinking person’s jargon alarm, but the concept of engaging customers directly and interactively is becoming increasingly important to brand survival. Dave Carter, founder and chief technology officer of a marketing company called Awareness, says the strategy may even benefit from the economic downturn, since it’s faster, cheaper and more engaging than a traditional ad campaign. Now, Awareness wants to make social media campaigns… Continue Reading
Roundup: First signs of a credit thaw, Google’s search share down, Jive Software layoffs and more
Here’s the latest action:
Credit beginning to thaw? — Bank borrowing costs fell slightly on Tuesday, a possible first sign that credit is beginning to flow between institutions again. Analysis at Calculated Risk.
Google’s search market share dips — The latest ComScore numbers show that Google gained more users in September, but lost percentage market share to Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask. AOL was the only other of the top five search engines to see its market share drop.
Jive Software… Continue Reading
Jive’s collaborative software Clearspace 2.5 pushes for ubiquity
Jive Software, one of the more successful startups offering collaborative software to large corporations, says it has a big goal for the latest version of its product — to bring its Clearspace software “everywhere.” That doesn’t just mean wooing more customers, but allowing existing customers to use Clearspace in many more contexts, as well.
Jive has added three new features to Clearspace — which provides tools like blogs, wikis and forums to allow users to collaborate… Continue Reading
Lithium scores money to grow corporate social networks
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Lithium Technologies, which builds and operates social networks for enterprises, has raised $12 million in venture capital today.
The company’s clients include Dell, AT&T, Sony PlayStation, Univision, and PayPal — all businesses with large user communities and heavy customer service and product support needs. Lithium’s community sites are designed to help these clients streamline the interaction with their customers and improve brand loyalty. To get an idea of how the sites function, take a look at… Continue Reading
Collaborative software company Jive acquires Jotlet, gets better project management
We’re already pretty impressed with Jive Software, a startup that integrates collaborative tools like blogging, wikis and forums into office applications through a single interface, and the Portland, Ore.-based company is still building momentum. Jive has acquired a web calendar startup called Jotlet, and it’s releasing version 2.0 of its Clearspace product, which offers some cool new project-management features.
As predicted in our previous coverage, Jive had a strong 2007, reaching more than 2,000 customers and… Continue Reading
Jive Software raises $15M, takes on Microsoft in Web 2.0 office
Microsoft Office, the popular office software, works great for most purposes, but it lacks good software for employees to collaborate on products — co-writing documents simultaneously, for example, or letting them archive online conversations.
Sharepoint, Microsoft’s offering, started as a simple file-sharing system, but its features have been limited. For Wiki features, for example, Microsoft established a relationship with separate wiki software company, SocialText. Sharepoint continues to improve, but slowly. It’s being challenged by host of… Continue Reading