Community Server,CS - TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards

London & Intel

What do London and Intel have in common? Well I find myself in London during one of the largest announcements that Telligent has ever made. Today we officially announced that Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, has made a $20 million...

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Spore Creature Creator

I recently took a trip to London for business to discuss Community Server strategy with members of the Eidos Interactive team as well as our friends at Electronic Arts (Europe) at their new offices in Guildford. Aside from getting a sneak peek at some...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, CS, TheBlackFin, EA, The Black Fin, Electronic Arts, Community Server 2008, Spore

Community Server 2008

On April 15th Telligent released Community Server 2008 . Community Server is the platform that powers communities for the likes of Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Dell and the MySpace.com forums and is the platform of choice for thousands of community implementations...

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Community Server 2008 Logo Unveiled

One of the fun parts of my job is that I work closely with our Creative and Marketing teams in defining the direction of the various brands for our products. After a number of cycles the team has unveiled the new Community Server 2008 logo. I am very...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, CS, marketing, viral marketing, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, Community Server 2008

Interview with Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb

During GDC 2008 I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb of the Xbox Live team. Larry is the Director of Xbox Live Programming and is the author of one of the most popular gaming blogs on the web. Between posts, blogcasts...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, Xbox 360, CS, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Major Nelson, EA, community, The Black Fin, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Blogging, Halo 3, GDC 2008

Game Developer Conference 2008

I confirmed today that I will be attending the 2008 Game Developer Conference February 18-22 in San Francisco. I am very excited about attending as outside of the networking and expo portion the key areas that I am interested in are the business and management...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Xbox 360, collaboration, CS, marketing, viral marketing, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Dallas, EA, Xbox forums, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Skate, Electronic Arts, Social Networking, Halo 3, Wii, GDC 2008, NFS Prostreet

Community Server 2008 Groups Preview

Today started as a typical day. Meetings, meetings and more meetings and a few calls thrown in for good measure. One of the highlights of the day was that I was able to demo the pre-beta bits of the Groups functionality of the upcoming Community Server...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, collaboration, CS, TheBlackFin, community, The Black Fin, Groups, Community Server 2008

Fun on a Friday - Part 2... Meet Bobblehead Rob

A few months ago we introduced the world to " Cardboard Rob ". Today, we unveiled "Bobblehead Rob". In the ever escalating pranks on Rob Howard , CEO of Telligent Systems a.k.a. our fearless leader, I crafted a plan a few months ago to come up with the...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, CS, Rob Howard, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin

The Halo 3 Marketing Machine

While flying to New York today I was reading an industry magazine and came across a Halo 3 cross-promotional ad that caught my attention. Outside of this ad featuring Halo 3 & 7-11 , the teams at Bungie and Microsoft are collaborating with a number...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, Xbox 360, CS, TheBlackFin, EA, Ensemble Studios, The Black Fin, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Halo 3

$44 Billion... Really???

I just flew in from Denver and boy are my arms tired... Seriously though, I enjoyed attending the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week. I was even quoted in the Denver Post about being a Microsoft partner. It is always interesting to...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, CS, marketing, Rob Howard, marketing strategy, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, Microsoft WPC 2007, Software, Services, Microsoft

Why Telligent?

One of the more frequent questions I get is why Telligent ? I joined the Telligent team about a year and half ago. Previously I was a co-founder of a Professional Services firm that focuses on custom application development and works extensively with...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, collaboration, Web 2.0, CS, marketing, viral marketing, Rob Howard, Scott Watermasysk, marketing strategy, Scott Dockendorf, scalability, roadmap, Jason Alexander

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