Enterprise Communications Veteran Joel Postman to Lead Intridea Strategy Group
Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, today announced that Joel Postman, corporate communications strategist, social media authority, and author, has joined the company as Senior Partner and Chief Enterprise Social Business Strategist.
“Many of our clients are interested in a straight development deal,” said Yoshi Maisami, Co-founder & Senior Partner of Intridea, “But others want help making sure their social business initiatives complement and support their broader business objectives. Joel has been doing this for Fortune 500 companies for over a decade, in both traditional and ‘new’ media. With Joel’s leadership, we can now provide our clients with Web 2.0 business software design, development and strategy, which is a powerful differentiator.”
Present.ly Among Five Technologies the Obama Administration Should Adopt
I think the Obama administration should use enterprise microblogging service Present.ly to allow White House staff and the president to communicate.
The real beauty of Present.ly is its ability to allow users to create groups. A top-level aide can put the president, vice president, and cabinet in one group so they can discuss world affairs in a Twitter-like format, and the rest of the staff can have their own group to take care of their own work.
Intridea wins: Postman as chief strategist, Present.ly official SXSW microblog platform
Intridea, which creates enterprise 2.0 Web solutions, today announced that communications veteran Joel Postman has joined the company as senior partner and chief enterprise social business strategist. Postman, author of SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate, and founder of Socialized, is responsible for supporting Intridea clients with social media strategy development and services such as policies and procedures, measurement, risk assessment, competitive analysis and training.
In other Intridea news, the company’s Present.ly enterprise microblogging solution will be used as a primary communications platform at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2009. SXSW has built a toolbox of recommended social apps and services for the conference. Present.ly, in use by a number of major U.S. corporations and government agencies, has been selected by SXSW as the official microblogging tool for this year’s event.
Now, Brevity Is the Soul of Office Interaction
“I’ve connected with people I didn’t know before who have very similar business or technical goals,” said Shannon Snowden, associate consulting partner at New Age Technologies, an information technology consulting firm based in Louisville, Ky.
“People post things like, ‘Took my dog to get a trim,’ ” said Mr. Snowden, whose company has 140 workers around the world, 30 of whom use Present.ly on a regular basis. “When you see them the next time, you’re caught up about personal and business things, and you can get right into deeper conversations. We know what each other’s doing from remote sites as well as we would if we were sitting next to them.”
“This isn’t a fad,” Mr. Snowden said. “There’s something core to this that allows people to communicate more freely. This is another stream of information you want to keep up with. It’s not viewed as noise yet.”
Microblog While You Work
Present.ly, goes one step further – it allows people from different companies, such as consultants and contractors, to join a feed. It also offers media-sharing capabilities and separate grouping areas.
At New Age Technologies, a 130-employee IT services firm in Louisville, Ky., microblogging had a noticeable impact during its first month. “We use Present.ly very much like extending a hallway conversation to a virtual hallway,” says Shannon Snowden, a consultant. “We’ve got about 30 people on it right now from groups that ordinarily wouldn’t talk to each other – we’ve got someone from marketing talking to a technical delivery person.”
Entrepreneurship Interview with Barg Upender of Intridea
Intridea is a fast growing software solutions company here in the DC metro area. For the last two years friends, Barg Upender, Yoshi Maisami and David Naffis have been building one of the premier Ruby on Rails (RoR) development shops in the nation. For those of you who don’t know what Ruby on Rails is, it is essentially a development language that makes building complex web sites faster and easier. Many sites you visit these days use or are completely built on Ruby. This makes Intridea a very popular company.
However, the team at Intridea is not stopping there. During their growth period of working with firms all over the country building cutting edge RoR apps, they have been developing apps of their own. From a social networking platform called SocialSpring to its most recent launch of Present.ly, which many people call a “Twitter for Companies”, it has begun the transition to be primarily a product company. I recently had the opportunity to sit down Barg Upender and discuss his experience as a serial entrepreneur and what the future holds for Intridea.
Bump Uses Intridea CrowdSound To Gain Beta Users’ Feedback
User Comments Via Intridea’s Social Feedback Widget Provide Unexpected Insights Into Customer Priorities and BumpTop Product Feature Preferences
Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, today announced that Bump Inc. has successfully implemented Intridea CrowdSound, the social feedback widget, to gather user suggestions on its beta software. Bump has developed the groundbreaking BumpTop three-dimensional graphical user interface, which mimics the behavior of a real-world desk.
Through CrowdSound, Bump has gained valuable — and sometimes unexpected user insight — into the BumpTop beta product. The customer feedback on feature preferences and priorities has helped Bump to focus its development efforts on the functionality that will offer the highest customer satisfaction when BumpTop launches.
“We are committed to changing the way users experience their computer desktops with BumpTop, and it’s a top priority to deliver a stellar product right out the gate,” said Anand Agarawala, founder and CEO of BumpTop. “With CrowdSound, Intridea has provided a fantastic tool to help us deliver the product users want.”
Can Ruby, Rails Make Developers Shine in a Downturn?
Will specialty coding skills help developers ride out the financial crisis? Some say environments like Ruby and Ruby on Rails may enable developers to fare better in times of financial stress because they can do more with less and be more productive. Others say that argument is a stretch.
When the going gets tough ... well, you know the saying … the tough get going. However, in the case of software development, in times of financial crisis—like we're in—when belt-tightening begins, some developers and development shops might be better suited to roll with the turbulent times than others.
These folks include Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers, and other programmers who focus on dynamic languages or provide specialty programming skills that many people claim enable them to do more with fewer resources.
...One such shop that hopes to ride out the financial crisis is Intridea, a software development house focusing on Ruby, Rails and agile development.
Twitter for Business
Here's Intridea co-founder Dave Naffis whose Eye Street-based agile software development company is launching Present.ly, a Twitter-like short-form communication tool for businesses today at the Web 2.0 expo in New York. The new application will let a company's employees let others know what they are working on, tap collective knowledge and track info in real time on the web and on mobile devices, so the boss always knows what's going on: Yikes!
Cool iPhone Apps!
Another company hot on iPhone's trail: Software developer Intridea, based in Potomac. It makes a CrowdSound widget that lets users vote on different aspects of a Web site, allowing the site to know what's working and what's not; now it can now be accessed from the iPhone. Above, Intridea President of Partnerships Barg Upender and Director of Mobile Solutions Brendan Lim. "Users will be able to check in on their site from anywhere," Barg tells us.
Intridea "Widgetizes" Customer Feedback
With CrowdSound, companies can put an ear to customer noise.
CrowdSound -- essentially a customer survey widget -- can be placed on just about any Web page, enabling visitors to submit feedback without navigating away from the site. Users can also rank or vote upon favorite suggestions, providing the company with Digg-like popularity results.
Intridea Releases CrowdSound
Intridea Inc has announced the general availability of CrowdSound. For $10 per month, enterprise and social networking Web sites can get customer feedback and gather, organize and respond to suggestions using this new on-demand social feedback tool.
Venture Capital Goldmine
Intridea is handling the software development for Crossmine.com, see what Bisnow has to say about it!
We love scoops more than air (not really, but you get the idea), so when our own Deep Throat Bob Nelson invited us to an Alexandria parking garage lunch at Lebanese Taverna at Tysons II to tell us about his new venture capital directory called “CrossMine,” we happily accepted. Bob’s site, which launches in beta tomorrow, will organize vc’s, vc- and angel-funded companies, and everyone looking for start-up cash in one spot.
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