Category: Tech Community (Global)

What it means to be a truly social organization and tips on how social collaboration can lead to innovation and a competitive advantage. One of my favorite sessions from SXSW Interactive last week was Gartner analyst Mark McDonald’s session discussing his book The Social Organization. McDonald discussed building a cross-functional collaborative environment within an organization using social media as the catalyst. In order to do so successfully, a company needs to understand the energy, potential, and innovation that’s possible through social collaboration. This understanding lowers the barrier for doing things in new and different ways and can fuel ...

We work with startups everyday who are looking for guidance and advice about how to best run their businesses and tips they should know about to be successful.  We thought we would highlight this article from VentureBeat since it gives some good pointers for anyone embarking on founding their own company.

Techvibes has been tracking Kryos Velocity for a couple of years, and it's always great to see a company that is continuously inventing itself as it's success grows. Here's the Techvibes post from last July on the launch of their Android version.

The Velocity 2 release adds HTML5 to the Android and Blackberry versions; it also runs on tablets such as the new PlayBook 2.0 and iPad. There's a lot more to the Velocity 2 launch. A full version of the press release can be found on the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

App Annie Analytics makes it easy for app publishers to track their apps' downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews for iOS and Android. App Annie unveils the 7 key trends you need to know about in the “Rise of the Planet of the Apps”. App Annie’s premium service - ‘App Annie Intelligence’ – employs cutting-edge statistical and data models to generate the most accurate market estimates available for app stores today. Companies like EA, Microsoft, Nokia, Sega and Tencent already rely on App Annie to identify macro trends in today's international app store economy.

We all love statistics, specially when they are about social media. I’ve made life so much easier by compiling all the statistics I could find over the past month or so in one handy bulleted article, including the following stats: Facebook, Facebook in business, Twitter, Twitter in business, LinkedIn, YouTube, Other (social networks), General social media stats, Mobile, QR codes and Facebook in Australia stats. Feel free to let me know if any of them are outdated or if I’ve missed any good ones. Enjoy!

Calgary-based Trilogy Software announced today that it has raised $3.3M in private equity with funds from founders and local and North American private investors. Read the full press release. This is CEO Cameron Peters 3rd company. He co-created Cantax Software in the 1980’s (now part of CCH), and and co-founded GreenPoint Software and the ProFile Tax Application Suite in the 1990’s, (I had the pleasure to be a co-founder, as well). GreenPoint was acquired by Intuit in 2000, after which Cameron served as CTO for Intuit Canada and U.K.   $3.3M for a first raise for ...

Notice that I removed the word “Shall” from the title of this blog post After I caught the news about the Facebook hack, I meandered around the internet, thought about some recent events and am connecting loose dots for those that haven’t heard about the goings on. Hell, maybe I'm way behind the eight-ball on this stuff, but it's worth noting. It all could be a “Blair Witch Project” or “Joaquin Phoenix” type hoax, so please take this lightly. Or, not. Prefacing all of this is what I took away from Leonard Brody’s talk at the ...