Yearly Archives: 2010

EggZack.com announced today a new service that allows users to post their information once and automatically update their choice of social media, like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, LinkedIn, WordPress and Tumblr. The new service is the free part of the EggZack.com information broadcasting platform, a comprehensive means for managing digital communications in one place, with one entry.

Co-Founder and CEO Jon Zack stated ”People use a lot of different social media to keep in touch with their friends. Businesses are in the same game with their customers. Yet we know firsthand how time consuming it is to update each one separately. So, we made it faster and easier for them to update everything. And, we made it totally free to use.”

Co-Founder and CTO Rick Morrison said “With our new free service, we are trying to make local information more accessible on social media. We think that what happens in people’s local day-to-day lives is important yet it is still largely missing on social media.”

Zack added “Information portability is a critical problem with fragmented media. Doing it better is key to increasing awareness and getting your information read on the web. It is no longer about just getting people to your website, it is about getting your information to where people are; to where they want to read it. This will help.“

About EggZack.com
EggZack.com helps businesses make the most of their online presence by getting their information to the places where people will read it. EggZack.com’s information broadcasting platform allows businesses to reach customers quickly and effectively through a variety of channels, with just one entry. Channels include social media, search engines, websites, blogs and local media.

The company was has offices in San Francisco, California and Flemington, New Jersey.

LifePics announced today the BETA launch of its Facebook integration, which allows consumers to share images from their LifePics online account to their Facebook page, as well as add their Facebook images to their LifePics account. The integration is the latest application launched through LifePics’ OPEN program, which gives app developers and affiliate sites the ability to drive users, images, and orders into the LifePics Retail Network.

“We are thrilled with what LifePics has been doing this year to drive us orders,” said Mandy Earnshaw, Lab Manager at Precision Camera. “LifePics’ OPEN program gives our customers more places to access their digital images and send the images to our store to print, and the new Facebook integration is the latest milestone to emerge. We love that our customers can add Facebook photos to their online photo account, and share photos from their online account to their Facebook page. It gives our customers a better overall web experience, and gives us more exposure and value as a photo service provider, which will ultimately lead to more orders to our store.”

A recent article by Seeking Alpha (http://seekingalpha.com/article/175351) indicates that larger photo sites have seen a 37% decrease in photo sharing since 2007, while social networking sites like Facebook are gaining momentum as the industry’s most popular photo sharing sites. With the launch of its OPEN program, LifePics sees its new Facebook integration as only the beginning of its social networking partnerships, and expects that by giving consumers the convenience of accessing their Facebook photos in their online photo accounts, consumers will print their Facebook photos through the LifePics Retail Network.

“Clearly, Facebook has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the photo sharing world,” said Ken McDonald, Vice President of Marketing at LifePics. “Our Facebook integration is a primary example of what potential third party partners can do through our OPEN program; the ability to share and add images between Facebook and LifePics accounts has opened the door for other developers and partners to take our integration to the next level.”

Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the “most human” computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Zabaware’s Ultra Hal has recently become an app on Facebook that socially interacts with and learns from Facebook users that talk with it.

Zabaware is an Erie, Pennsylvania based company that specializes in artificial intelligence technology. The company’s mission “giving your computer the power of thought” once considered a futuristic pipe dream is becoming a reality. It is one thing to talk to your computer it is quite another to have a conversation where you are exchanging information and the computer learns and utilizes the information in the future. Zabaware’s Ultra Hal technology and its associated brain are currently doing just that. The software can give computers a personality using AI technology, speech recognition technology, and real-time animation.

Ultra Hal is like an inquisitive child and is capable of learning new things from conversations based on complex natural language processing technology capable of statistically analyzing past conversations. The social aspects of Facebook allow the technology to dynamically alter and optimize Hal’s personality to each individual Facebook user and their group of friends. If a Facebook user teaches Hal about their own life and about their group of friends then Hal will be able to utilize that information when speaking to any of that person’s friends, but will not use that information when speaking to a different Facebook user that is not a friend. This way Hal can evolve to be like one of your closest buddies because he knows all the information you and your friends taught him while ignoring information from strangers. Facebook users can find Hal on Facebook at apps.facebook.com/ultrahal.

In addition to being on Facebook, Zabaware’s Ultra Hal software is available for anyone to download and install on their Windows PC. Once installed, it can be used as a companion or entertainment product. Hal can discuss any topic and learns and evolves from conversations. Hal can also be used as a personal or office assistant. Hal can function as a personal information manager (PIM) and keep track of your appointments, contacts, and more. The artificial intelligence software is available for download at www.zabaware.com as a free 30-day trial, and costs $29.95 to use after that.

NetBiz (NetBiz.com), one of the world’s largest Search Engine Marketing companies, has really increased their efforts to be active in the online Social Media sphere, including the NetBiz Blog, Facebook, Twitter, NetBiz-Community, and iVouch pages.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed yet, NetBiz.com, one of the world’s largest Search Engine Marketing companies, has really increased their efforts to be active in the online Social Media sphere. Here are some places you can now spot and communicate with them across the Web.

NetBiz Blog – In addition to answers to your NetBiz questions, the NetBiz blog provides other useful information about Search Engine Marketing. You’ll also find updates on NetBiz programs, promotions, activities and gain some insight into who they are as a company and as individuals. Visit http://blog.netbiz.com

Facebook – NetBiz has a presence on Facebook where they are more than happy to converse with you about your Internet Marketing questions and/or welcome you as a fan.

Twitter – Follow them on Twitter! Their handle is @Ask_NetBiz. NetBiz will answer your Internet Marketing questions there, too, though 140 characters won’t always be enough to give you all the juicy details.

Netbiz-Community.com (powered by GetSatisfaction) – Want to tell NetBiz how great they are, let them know you have a problem, or want to give them a brilliant suggestion? Visit their community page where you can do all of those things, as well as vote on the best answers to your questions and the best questions by fellow community members. NetBiz is really wants to hear what you have to say! Visit http://netbiz-community.com

IVouch – iVouch.com is an independent third-party website that provides people a place online to find, share, and vouch for the top local and web-based businesses. Visit the NetBiz page at www.ivouch.com/netbiz and see what customers are really saying about them.

NetBiz is a fully integrated Search Engine Marketing company with services including Search Engine Placement (SEP), Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 2.0, and Website Design. NetBiz has been in business since 2002 and is based in beautiful Tualatin, Oregon. When they started, they only had 6 employees and a water cooler. Since then, they have upgraded offices, added over 200 employees, and four new offices. NetBiz recognizes that there are a lot of really great search engine marketing companies out there – but how many of them specialize in helping “Make the Internet Easy” for small businesses? Contact them at 888-847-2226

Kohlieber LLC announced the launch of CribYO.com today; A private social network that charges an annual membership fee. While there are other social networking sites, many generate revenue based on advertising and pay per click programs. According to the owner, Larry Kohlieber, “Cribyo allows users to create their own private social circles and the program allows a user to be completely private allowing access to just friends to one level or increase visibility to the entire community”. Cribyo offer members unique features like a music player, photo directory, chat, magazine, forums and message posts that will provide users content within the portal space.

According to the owner Larry Kohlieber, “A percentage of proceeds from the annual membership fee will be used to fund CribYO Scholarships that will be awarded to CribYO members based on application selection”. In addition, he has decided that a percentage of revenue will also go to a pet rescue organization. These programs will begin once the site portal signs up 2,000 paid members. Cribyo plans on covering operational and management cost first, then providing an application process for education scholarships slated to start at a minimum of $2,000 US. Larry stated “The premise of Cribyo was to provide a social networking site people can join and know that a portion of their annual fee will be used to give something back to selected applicants from the membership base and provide donations to a pet rescue organization”.

www.kohlieber.com

ACCA, the global body for professional accountants, today harnessed the power of tweetedia™ – the world’s first Twitter Management System – to report live from Davos, the annual world economic forum, via Twitter. The tweetedia™ application will run across The Times, The Telegraph and Economist online.

Created and owned by AdGent 007 Inc., the global digital media services company, tweetedia™ offers advertisers the opportunity to use real time Twitter feeds as part of their campaign.

Launching Friday 29 January and running for three days, the ACCA ‘news team’ will report on the live events from the Davos forum via their Twitter feed – tweetedia™ will then pull these tweets into the widget allowing users of The Times, Telegraph and Economist real time insight and opinion as events unfold. The widget will be ACCA branded and acts as an ad unit – when a user interacts with the widget they will be directed through to the ACCA website.

Twitter is one of the most popular and engaging real-time communication tools on the web. With a simple-to-use interface, advertisers can harness the power of Twitter to create highly-focused, engaging Twitter streams about any subject in the Twitterverse.

For the first time, the tweetedia™ widget offers consumers the opportunity to engage with an ad unit with real time content. Publishers and brands increasingly understand the benefits of social media, and are harnessing products such as tweetedia™ in order to stay relevant to their audience.

This campaign was negotiated between Adgent 007 Inc. and Total Media Group on behalf of ACCA.

Cameron Yuill, founder & CEO at AdGent 007, said: “tweetedia™ gives brands a unique opportunity to make their online advertising more engaging. By tapping into the Twitter zeitgeist and using comments from real customers, brands ensure their advertising is more credible. Advertisers are struggling to get their message heard among the clutter on the Web. Social media tools like tweetedia™ give brands a chance to be noticed by consumers by providing them with content – resulting in a significant upswing in engagement.”

Knexus has been in the social software and communities space for almost eight years now, starting back when the spirit of social had yet to enter the mainstream. Today, Knexus is the social software partner of choice for the worlds’ leading brands, providing enterprise-scale solutions to extract maximum business value.

Graeme Foux, Knexus CEO commented,” As the business use of social media has matured over the last 12 months, companies have begun to take a more holistic and radical approach, considering how to connect external social network engagement with their own social-enabled sites to increase commerce, trust and loyalty and generate better, faster insights and ideas for future success.”

Knexus is a social software pioneer, combining a platform developed and relentlessly hones by creating effective collaboration, sharing and networking with customers, colleagues and partners, with a passion for helping companies through planning, deployment and harvesting success.

The key areas where Knexus has stepped in to help customers to integrate social into their businesses are:

– Social Commerce, one of the most direct routes to demonstrate a return for companies with ecommerce operations, by applying the concept of word of mouth to ecommerce
– Social CRM, the integration of CRM systems with social media to stimulate conversations between customers and build relationships in order to manage a pipeline of opportunities more effectively
– Customer Loyalty, using online social-enabled sites and communities to encourage and reward loyal customers
– Product Innovation, looking beyond the enterprise, to customers and partners for active participation in product development and innovation as a way of capturing market share

“Integrating Social into business is a must have for today’s enterprise – companies that hesitate will fall behind their competitors,” said Graham Honeywill, formerly global head of digital marketing at Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks and now Director of Amberbuzz.

If you are interested in how Knexus can help you successfully integrate social into your business, contact us at +1 646 401 0147 (New York); +44 (0) 845 838 5316 (London). Current Knexus customers include BUPA, Dell, GlaxoSmithKline, Ingram Micro, Johnson & Johnson, Nokia and Shell.

About Knexus

Knexus is the leader in social software solutions, used by companies globally to build trusted relationships, create profitable conversations and drive monetization through enhanced engagement. The company was founded in March 2002 by a management team with deep expertise of digital technology and social media, headquartered in New York with offices in London. For more information, go to www.knexusgroup.com or follow the blog at www.knexusblog.com

NewsGator (www.newsgator.com) today announced that it had reached a final agreement for the acquisition of Tomoye (www.tomoye.com), a long-time innovator in enterprise social computing, creating a single source for intranet, extranet and Internet social computing solutions built on Microsoft technologies.

The combined entity delivers Enterprise 2.0’s most comprehensive product solution, the largest and most experienced R&D team, and the deepest integration with Microsoft SharePoint – the most popular business collaboration tool with more than 100 million seats.

NewsGator now has more than 2.1 million paid enterprise social computing users overall – more than any other social computing vendor. NewsGator also has the largest implementations in private-sector enterprise social computing. Via Tomoye, NewsGator adds the largest market share in Government 2.0, supporting many substantial installations, including the single largest government social computing community, the United States Army with 150,000 users.

“This strategic move expands our market reach and gives us a broader portfolio of solutions for current and future customers,” said J.B. Holston, NewsGator CEO. “Tomoye has an excellent product, deep experience in the government sector, and a complementary vision that is focused on delighting the largest organizations in the world. This transaction immediately follows a 2009 in which NewsGator performed well beyond all of our targets. With the world of work evolving so rapidly, the Tomoye acquisition, combined with our phenomenal momentum through 2009, positions NewsGator as the trusted Enterprise 2.0 partner for the world’s most significant organizations.”

Although terms of the deal were not disclosed, Tomoye customers will continue to receive full product support from the combined company. Tomoye customers include the Federal Reserve Bank, The United States Army, Defense Acquisition University, The United States Air Force, Jacobs Engineering, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Agency for International Development and more.

“Our sale to NewsGator is the right move for our customers since our combined R&D team will rapidly build out our vision for social computing,” said Tomoye CEO and co-founder Eric Sauve. “We can now more quickly react to advances in the industry, enabling our customers to reap the benefits of social computing that much sooner.” Sauve will remain responsible for Tomoye’s Ecco software and will be a senior member of the NewsGator management team.

Tomoye has pioneered enterprise social computing, communities of practice, and cross-enterprise learning and collaboration since its inception in 2000, and has a strong base of loyal customers, particularly in the government sector. Like NewsGator Social Sites, Tomoye’s Ecco social computing software enhances Microsoft SharePoint by adding a wide range of capabilities, including social media, social networking and communities. Ecco also provides an extremely rich feature set running in a standalone mode.

The acquisition enriches NewsGator’s already broad support of SharePoint to encompass the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Server (WSS), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This combination of product offerings covers every conceivable customer scenario from a quickly deployed standalone platform to a well-integrated SharePoint WSS solution to a deeply customized MOSS 2007 deployment; and from intranet collaboration and expertise discovery to extranet customer and partner interactions to Internet communities for customers. NewsGator is a depth-managed Certified Gold partner of Microsoft, and Tomoye is a Certified Gold Partner.

Forrester Research has predicted Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and that social networking tools will garner the bulk of that sum.

For more information on the acquisition, see our blog post http://blogs.newsgator.com/daily/.

About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
NewsGator Technologies helps enterprises leverage social computing to deliver real business value. The company’s enterprise social networking products are used by the world’s most recognized brands, including Novartis, Biogen Idec, Edelman, Federal Reserve Bank, The United States Army, and The United States Air Force. NewsGator Social Sites and Tomoye Ecco give organizations better ways to innovate, collaborate, manage knowledge, develop new employees and improve productivity. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com

In 2009, Q1 Productions hosted the First Health Care New Media Marketing Conference. The event featured lively discussions on emerging social media trends and explored issues such as the future implications of electronic health records, as well as the value of content management systems.

Building on the success of 2009, The 2nd Annual Healthcare New Media Marketing conference will address how the recent social media boom and new communication innovations have affected marketing strategies for healthcare professionals. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear case study presentations from foremost healthcare executives who have successfully implemented new media campaigns and developed quality metrics for measuring success.

From overcoming issues related to HIPPA compliance, to gaining leadership approval for untested new media efforts, healthcare professionals with marketing, communications and public relations responsibilities are facing a vast array of new challenges. Sessions will illustrate how to effectively utilize popular sites such as Twitter and YouTube, as well the emerging possibilities with unique tools such as, Second life and GoogleWave.

This exciting two-day conference will be held in Downtown Chicago, IL on June 14-15, 2010. Currently, registration is available at the early bird rate of $695 until the end of January.

For more information visit: www.q1productions.com/healthcarenewmedia

When: June 14-15th, 2010

Where: Downtown Chicago

Who: The conference is designed for healthcare professionals interested in learning the latest in New Media and web 2.0 techniques. Presenting organizations include: Aurora Healthcare, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Danbury Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, Jackson Walker, LLP, Lehigh Valley Health Network, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Norman Regional Health System, Ohio State University Medical Center, Rush University Medical Center, Yelp

The Organizer
Q1 Productions has over 25 years of combined event management experience, with previous roles in international Sales Management, Productions and Operations. Focusing on new or pending legislative issues, enhanced business processes or technologies that will drive efficiency and customer service, our conference programs provide solutions to the urgent needs of our attendees.

Mozat announced today it has been chosen as a finalist for the Red Herring’s Global 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.

The Red Herring editorial team has selected the most innovative companies from a pool of over 1,200. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“We are delighted for our nomination as a finalist of the Red Herring Global Awards. The advancement of technology in every company makes the competition more competitive each year. To standout from the rest represents the recognition of the innovative technology and value of Mozat. We are very grateful to the committee for the selection of Mozat and our prospective insight on the future of mobile social networks with our technologies.” said Michael Yin, CEO of Mozat.

“This year was especially difficult” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Now we’re faced with the arduous task of selecting the final 100 winners of the award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far”

Mozat is a social networking platform tailored for the most popular mobile phones in the market. For consumers, Mozat serves as a mobile social community that allows users to connect and interact with each other as well as providing access to their favorite email, instant messaging, photo sharing and social gaming. For operators, Mozat provides an extensible, market-ready Mobile SNS platform that drives data usage and builds customer loyalty. It is available for free at www.mozat.com or in a premium version through selected mobile operators in Asia, Middle East and Latin America including Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Orange.

The Mozat community currently has more than 10 million registered users, pre-dominantly in the emerging markets of Asia and the Middle East

Finalists for the 2009 edition of the Red Herring Global 100 award are selected from the regional recipients or finalists of the Red Herring 100 awards in 2007, 2008, or 2009 ranging from Asia, Europe, and North America. For the past three years, the award has been given to the top 100 global technology companies based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in their submissions to qualify for the award.

The CEOs of the 200 finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Global Conference in Laguna Niguel, California, January 12-14, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony at the event.