Yammer Communities åpne døren for B2B Microblog samarbeid og mye mer

Som vi rapporterte i går kveld, har Yammer nettopp annonsert at de vil begynne å tillate brukerne å melde seg for microblogging service uten e-postadresser som er tilknyttet deres selskap domenenavn (f.eks jason@company.com). Denne nye funksjonen, kalt Communities, åpnes tjenesten til mindre formelle organisasjoner, og selv familier. Og det åpner også døren for B2B samarbeidet, som er hvordan Yammer synes å være primært markedsføre den nye funksjonen Communities vil lanseres 1. mars. Dette er et stort trekk for selskapet. På en telefonkonferanse i morges, sa Yammer konsernsjef David Sacks at ett av problemene med Yammer så langt har vært at kommunikasjon på tjenesten har vært begrenset til intern bruk i en bedrift. Spørsmålet mange mennesker løp inn var at de hadde ønsker å samarbeide med sine kunder eller forretningspartnere også, men hadde ikke en måte å gjøre det uten å invitere dem til bedriftens interne nettverk (som ofte var ikke et alternativ) .

Trackur lanserer gratis versjon av sitt sosiale medier Avlytting Verktøyet

Trackur en bootstrapped oppstart grunnlagt av Internett-markedsføring konsulent og forfatter Andy Beal, frem til nå tilbys bare betalte versjoner av online omdømmebygging og sosiale medier overvåkingsverktøy, men med gratis prøve perioder. Dag den nyopprettede selskapet introduserer et helt gratis versjon av Web-basert programvarepakke som gir markedsførere og små bedrifter en overbevisende grunn til å ønske å sjekke det ut og se hvorfor grunnleggende Google Alerts rett og slett ikke kan klippe det lenger.

Bekreftet: Match.com kjøper Singlesnet

Vi kalte det. IAC's Match.com er erverve stipendiat datingside Singlesnet. Vi opprinnelig rapportert om avtalen i forrige uke. Vilkårene i avtalen ble ikke offentliggjort. Match.com sier oppkjøpet er mer en "verdi oppkjøp enn en strategisk én" og Singlesnet vil fortsatt bli drevet som en selvstendig virksomhet. Singlesnet trafikk, sier Match, no, er synkende, men kunne presentere nye inntektsmuligheter muligheter for "Match.com 's samlede portefølje av innenlandske online dating merkevarer.

Bysøk bygger Out The Definitive Directory of Local Business Tweets

Twitter er å bli en seriøs markedsføring redskap for lokale bedrifter. Alle fra din lokale baker til din favoritt restaurant får på Twitter for å snakke med kunder og tegne på nye. Bare sist helg da jeg kjørte til Vermont med familien min, sendte jeg ut en Tweet ber om et bra sted å spise lunsj. Jeg fikk mer enn fem svar, blant annet en fra den lokale verten par anbefale to plasser i byen (som ikke eies av dem). Det var i Brattleboro, Vermont. Men det var så tilfeldig. Hvordan du selv finne ut hvilke av dine favoritt lokale bedrifter har Twitter-kontoer eller hva deres Twitter håndtak er? Vel, bysøk gjør det for deg. Den lokale virksomheten guide begynner å bygge ut en definitiv katalog av Twitter-kontoer og Tweets om lokale restauranter, hoteller, spa og butikker. Det starter liten, med om lag 5.000 virksomhetsoppføringer for tiden bundet til sitt Twitter-kontoer (som bedrifter kan legge seg når de hevder sine bysøk siden), men målet er å legge Tweets av og om noen av de 15 millioner bedrifter i sine oppføringer.

Adobe Flash 10.1 holder ut for Windows 7 Phone, 6.5-enheter kan haz oppgradere til WP7?

Bare den andre dagen ble hjerter knust hele verden når Microsoft sier at dagens Windows Mobile 6.5-enheter vil ikke kunne oppgradere til Windows Phone 7. Den gode nyheten er at kanskje ikke helt sant som Microsoft sa på Twitter at det er helt opp til maskinvareprodusenter. Vei å forvirre oss! Et annet område hvor WinMo 6.5 får ingen kjærlighet? Adobe Flash 10.1.

Yammer Communities move business microblogging outside your company

Yammer may still be known as the startup that offers “Twitter for the enterprise,” but it continues adding features that differentiate it from Twitter and make it a more powerful business tool. Today, it announced Yammer Communities, a way to use microblogging to communicate outside your company.
Until now, Yammer customers used the product for internal communication, which was enforced by the fact that anyone in a Yammer network needed to have a company email address. But chief executive David Sacks said microblogging can be useful for working with partners, customers, and others, and also to create new kinds of networks. He painted a picture of how a series of connected Yammer Communities can starting adding up to “the B2B social graph.”
The San Francisco startup has already recruited a number of launch partners, which give a sense of how companies could use Yammer Communities. Deloitte, for example, will use Communities to discuss projects with its consulting clients. Cleantech company Better Place will use the feature to coordinate with its manufacturing and vendor partners. And an unidentified media company has built a community for an advisory panel of 1,500 moms.
Sacks also gave reporters a quick tour of the product, where he emphasized the separateness of each community. Not only is each community a separate stream of posts, but members even have different profiles for each one. Members can bring up a list of all their communities, which shows the number of unread messages in each network. That’s an important step in making social networking tools a valid replacement for email, Sacks said, because that makes it easier to keep up with all of your communication and not let messages slip through the cracks.
Yammer plans to launch the communities feature on March 1, on both its web, mobile, and desktop interfaces. Communities will be included in Yammer’s standard pricing.
During the briefing, Sacks also shared that Yammer has 60,000 customers and made “seven figures” in revenue during its first year. Yammer has raised $15 million in funding.
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People: David Sacks

Cleantech Group nabs $3.2M to grow green empire

The Cleantech Group, the green technology event, research, reporting and consulting company, is having a big week. The first of five annual Cleantech Forums is taking place right now in San Francisco, drawing green investors and entrepreneurs from around the world. And today, the Bay Area company took the stage to announce its own news: a $3.2 million third round of funding that will be used to expand its reach and portfolio of services.
Today, the Group focuses mostly on industry research, which it sells to companies, government agencies and investors, and coordinating events that bring all the most important cleantech players into the same room. But it’s slowly been expanding into breaking news reporting — making it an indirect competitor with VentureBreat — and business consulting, advising companies about how best to grow within their market sectors. New members have already been added to the executive team to expedite this expansion — including the appointment of Sheeraz Haji (a speaker at VentureBeat’s November GreenBeat conference) as president.
The Cleantech Group’s goal is to tackle the biggest challenges standing between green innovation and wide adoption. So it’s appropriate that the theme of this year’s first Cleantech Forum is how to scale the best green developments in existence today. This has been an ongoing hurdle in almost every niche of the cleantech sector, from the Smart Grid, to solar and wind power to water filtration and distribution. It’s a problem that ties together public and private financing with government regulation and R&D.
While its consulting business is still young, the Group says it has already provided expertise to companies like Autodesk and Veolia Environnement, a water, energy and waste management company that has a major announcement coming out this afternoon at the Forum. The company will leverage its market research infrastructure and expanding patent database to help these clients shape their strategies.
The Cleantech Group will also be adding two events to its annual circuit. Continuing to grow its global focus, it will host one in Boston in June looking at how Indian and Chinese companies are establishing footholds in New England; as well as an energy efficiency-based conference in Chicago.
The recent financing came from Credit Suisse, SAIL Venture Partners, Georgieff Capital, and Consensus Business Group among others.
Companies: Cleantech Group, Consensus Business Group, Credit Suisse, Georgieff Capital, SAIL Ventures