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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 dollar investment in Telligent. You can read the...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 09-23-2008
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 . In addition to the new release a new...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 04-17-2008
OMMA & Social Networking

I recently attended the OMMA Global marketing conference in Hollywood, California. Some of the top talent from the marketing industry was there recently to discuss the current state of online marketing, media and advertising. The Event featured a number of session tracks that each followed a specific...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 03-28-2008
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 and twitter Major keeps everyone up to date on the...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 02-21-2008
How Much??? Really ?!?

How much do we spend in the US on advertising? Well in 2007 we spent 283 billion dollars. Yes 283 billion. That may sound like a lot but this level of growth 0.7% versus 2006 puts advertising's share of the 2007 GDP (2%) at it's lowest level since the recession year of 1982. Even with an uncertain market...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 01-04-2008
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 2008 release (March, 2008) to one of our key clients...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 12-12-2007
Announcing: Social Networking & Communities Group

Starting August 29th Telligent will host a monthly breakfast at our office in Dallas as an interest group for Social Networking and Communities . What is it? It's not going to be technical . Visual Studio won't get opened. What it will be is a fun conversation with like-minded people about topics related...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 07-29-2007
Community ROI

Changes have been in the works over the past few years, dramatic changes and challenges are beginning to have an effect on traditional business. You look at software as a service (SaaS), service oriented architecture, and especially Web 2.0 and how organizations are trying to define new strategies. From...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 05-09-2007

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