Concursive Corporation - Products

Use Activity Streams to Improve Productivity and Communication: The Modern Business

Matt R. — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:50:00 GMT

What makes Facebook and Twitter so useful? I believe it's the capability to easily jot down tidbits of information and for curious others to see, interpret and act on what was written. So, if you extend that idea to business, and you organize people by groups, divisions, departments, projects, and friendship, then a company has the means to quickly disseminate and share information, across many bounds, without the 'slowness' of email and in-person communication. Meaningful communication can be achieved in just a few words and without taking up much time, and the results are immediate and context sensitive.

This streamlined form of communication, called Activity Streams, is the latest improvement to ConcourseConnect. Activity streams allow for users to enter information into a profile, and for followers to comment on and share

New Feature - Receive Email Updates

Matt R. — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:10:00 GMT

ConcourseConnect's latest feature: Email Updates.

Email updates allow users to opt-in to receive emails about activity that is going on in the community. For example, let's say you become a member of a project. If you are an active participant, you might want to be notified several times a day about activity that is occurring in the project. The email update is a list of who did what, including posts in the forums, blog posts, new files, announcements and more. When joining a profile, the user sees the notification options...

Users can decide per profile (whether a project, group, department and more) as to whether that profile's activities are sent daily, weekl

The road to ConcourseConnect 2.0

Matt R. — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:25:00 GMT

Enterprise social computing, take notice -- there's a lot packed into this product and 2.0 delivers on being secure, flexible, inspiring and easy to get started with! ConcourseConnect is a solid platform for launching your next community. It's in use by global corporations and small businesses alike.

While some products jive more on marketing then actual substance, ConcourseConnect couldn't be more different and more flexible. We've actually taken notice that our competitors are trying to catch up to our core features and we're flattered! We're not done though, as we have lots of new features in the pipeline and some catching up to do ourselves.

Some history… ConcourseConnect 1.0 establishes several key components of collaboration -- every user has a space to build upon and enhance, users can jointly collaborate in shared spaces, and public spaces allow for c

Why Wiki's Matter

Phil K. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:40:00 GMT

In the Concourse Connect social networking suite, every individual profile, whether a registered user, a company, a group or a project has a wiki tab that allows users with the proper permissions to add content. Wiki's are useful in a number of ways, but there are two use cases that stand out. Let's call them the Smooth and the Knowledge.

The Smooth Wiki is used in a business to keep a process moving along. Suppose your loading dock is tracking shipments into your plant. All along the route, people are adding infprmation about the shipmemts location, size, distribution, etc. Anyone reading the wiki has an up to the minute view of the status of that specific order. Now imagine a company receiving hundreds of shipments a day and the Smooth Wiki becomes a useful tool.

The Knowledge Wiki may be even more important to an organization. Every person has knowledge about their own area that would be useful to share so that others could benefit from. Giving ac

ConcourseConnect 1.0.3 Released

Matt R. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:00 GMT

This update is a maintenance release that fixes a bug with Google Maps not displaying on the profile listing pages. All sites are encouraged to update. If Google Maps is disabled, then the maps will no longer be displayed with a javascript message appearing.

What's A Directory?

Phil K. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:15:00 GMT

A business decides to set up a social marketing presence where they can do a few things - communicate directly with customers and prospects through blogs, wikis and forums, provide a venue for customer support through company posts and customer comments, or introduce new products or services to a targeted audience. The site is membership based so users can participate and communicate, and they get a profile page themselves.

Now suppose the business has suppliers who would like to reach that same audience - how would they do that? Concourse Connect has built in a middle layer of access, think of them as storefronts, called business profiles. Any supplier, vendor or interested organization can create a business profile in our application. Each profile has a full suite of Web 2.0 tools so each business can set up their own community within the main one. Here's an example of a business profile insid

Virtual Meeting

Phil K. — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:10:00 GMT

Your a company with 9 locations, many workers on the road or working from home, you read an article about a competitor rolling out a new process and you think your company can improve upon it and use it in your business. In this scenario, the emails fly, the conference calls start and everyone involved in the process has their own spreadsheets and notes.

Concourse Connect, when configured as a collaboration tool for a company Intranet, as shown here, let's you set up a dedicated Group with features that include project management, document library, discussion forums, blogging and more. When a new idea evolves for a different process, employees will set up an Idea project with the same collaborative functionality to work collectively to flesh it out.

A company's intellectual resources can be spread out across the country, around the world or on the same floor of an office building. Thos

Public Communities With Privacy

Phil K. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:45:00 GMT

A community by definition is a "unified body of individuals". When it comes to building communities of people on the Internet, the more tools that a person has to display the public side of themselves or their company, the better. Blogs, wikis, forums, and review tools for the members of a community to use to promote themselves are as important as they are for the businesses and organizations in the community.

But companies may want their employees to work togehter in groups or projects that they don't want the public to view. This would be the private side of a public community. A user starts a project, invites others to join it and they collaborate to resolve an issue or complete a customer requirement. Only those users that have been invited can see the project and participate. To everyone else, it doesn't exist.

Concurse Connect has a robust project management capabitlity that allows a team to work together privately in an otherwise publ

ConcourseConnect 1.0.1 Released

Matt R. — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:10:00 GMT

This update is a maintenance release that improves a few items discovered in release 1.0.

Social Business Software Getting Started

Matt R. — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:00:00 GMT

It's time to take your business 'social' with ConcourseConnect, a new do-it-yourself social networking software platform. Taking your business 'social' is a paradigm shift in which users openly share knowledge -- it's a one-to-many community relationship in which users participate with familiar social networking features.

To get started I suggest you take a look at what ConcourseConnect does...