Concursive Corporation

Getting Started With Your Own Community

Matt R. — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:50:00 GMT

When you've reached a point in which you are ready to start a new web site, Concursive can help by setting up a site for you with all of the content management and social networking features we offer.

The most basic question we always ask up front is what kind of site do you want?

The options are:

Web site

Setup a public site and collaborative web presence all in one. This is the option if you want to host a web site using Concursive's platform and you may or may not want any or all of the collaboration features.

http://web.preview.concursive.com

Social networking

A public special interest site that fosters collaboration around a particular theme. Users will setup profiles and communicat

ConcourseConnect and ConcourseSuite CRM Cloud Offering Improvements

Matt R. — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:15:00 GMT

Today we're announcing improvements for both ConcourseConnect and ConcourseSuite CRM at www.concoursecloud.com.

Starting today, the Small Business and Medium-Size Business installs receive double the storage and up to double the bandwidth! The Large Business installs maintain an already low price and high value configuration.

Get started for only $99 per month!

Customers choose ConcourseConnect because they want to increase and improve collaboration in their business or organization. ConcourseConnect helps bring people together virtually to generate and share useful information and knowledge, and to solve problems effectively. Tools for your Groups and Projects include Activity Streams, Blogs, Wikis, Documents, Issue Tracking, Planning, and Tasks. That's what you get with ConcourseConnect at ConcourseCloud – an optimized version of ConcourseConnect fo

What do social sites need? Users, Functionality, and Dedication.

Matt R. — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:50:00 GMT

We build social sites as a focal point for user-generated content. These sites require an ongoing user base, technical functionality and dedication from the site owners. Without any one of these, the site likely fails.

Users… these are the key contributors to your site. Users bring with them experience, curiosity, interests and friends. They ask questions, answer questions and post about their experiences. They have a desire for the latest news, events and offerings. Users share the information on the site.

Functionality… to engage your users. Users read, share and comment on content. They often post news, events and photos. Most are open to creating a social profile. The site functionality needs those features and a solid user experience to encourage them to participate. Other features help the site owners learn from the community including challenges, polls and surveys.

Dedication… to adapt to your users and keep your site fresh.

You can do really great things, and here's how

Matt R. — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:00:00 GMT

At Concursive, we pride ourselves on creating comprehensive products and platforms which are easy to compile, install, upgrade and customize from source. Take for example, ConcourseSuite CRM: once installed, the application works just as well on a disconnected network as it does on the Internet. ConcourseConnect, the enterprise social computing and social networking platform, achieves the same goal, but when connected to the Internet it takes advantage of additional resources when they are available and configured: Google Maps and Geolocation APIs, Google Analytics, Twitter API, Facebook Sharing, Authorize.net and Web Services for Remote Portlets.

Installation is a snap, as the products only require a Java installation, Apache Tomcat Web Server and PostgreSQL Database Server. The Portlet Portals, cache and distributed cache, indexed searches, APIs, Workflow Engine, Decisioning Engine, Messaging and Security are all embedded without additional servers and services to manage

How Enterprise 2.0 Are You?

Matt R. — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:00:00 GMT

To kick off some announcements around ConcourseConnect (Enterprise 2.0 Web Application) and Mobile, I've produced an Enterprise 2.0 tribute video.

MECCA Networks

Dave R. — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:20:00 GMT

Big Opportunities... All "Local"... Now Possible

Early Access Releases

Matt R. — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:50:00 GMT

Concursive is currently deploying customers on unreleased versions of ConcourseConnect 3.0 and ConcourseSuite 6.1. We have been fine tuning the releases for several months and they represent the best versions we offer. ConcourseConnect 3.0 includes features like Importing Users, a Photo Gallery, Streamlined Invitations, a 3rd party client API, UI improvements and a video module for the final release. We have done some integrations that customers can try, like OpenMeetings support. ConcourseSuite 6.1 is all about product consistency and stability. The 6.1 release might include a few unannounced features we are working on.

The commercial versions of our products include the ConcourseConnect Management plug-in which allows ConcourseConnect user data to be vi

Ning Comparison

Dave R. — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:40:00 GMT

Read the fine print

A "Private Facebook": Sometimes 400 million is too many

Dave R. — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:05:00 GMT

Some new marketing taglines we're (jokingly) considering

Happy First Anniversary ConcourseConnect!

Matt R. — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Today marks the one year anniversary of ConcourseConnect. There's a lot to take away during the last year, but perhaps the most important is that ConcourseConnect has proven that is a stable solution for enterprise collaboration. Let me break this down...

ConcourseConnect is successfully in use in production by customers that were paying for Jive SBS, Ning, and others. Concursive supports these communities through our Enterprise support package. In many situations, partners become the community managers and have gone through extensive Concursive training to provide social networking solutions to their customers.

The Open Source version of ConcourseConnect has reached 6,700 downloads, which comes out to at least 550 downloads a month. That doesn't include the direct source code checkouts either. ConcourseConnect has to be the easiest, full-featured social networking software to install, especially compared to other wiki and collaborat

ConcourseConnect Open Source Licensing

Tom M. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:35:00 GMT

I thought I'd take a moment and talk about the way we license ConcourseConnect, and why.

Connect is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPL), which is OSI approved, and very similar to the GPL3. It is a "viral" license, in that any modifications you make to the code must also be redistributed under the AGPL, and the same applies if you provide Connect to users over the network.

We chose the AGPL because it provides the most freedom to the community and insures that all improvements and bug fixes are shared and can become a part of the main distribution. All users and providers of the system realize the benefits.

What this means to you as a provider of the application is that the AGPL requires that the complete source code of your version be made available to any netwo

Social Software and Customer Relationship Management All Grown Up: Social, Business Software

Matt R. — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:00:00 GMT

After attending a moving presentation from Don Tapscott (of Wikinomics fame) at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, almost two years ago, I felt encouraged about the work Concursive was doing with centralized tools for businesses. The CRM had the right features for sales force automation and document management, and managers were happy seeing daily roll-ups of opportunities and action planning. Don had convinced me that there needed to be more collaborative elements in the business process, "a paradigm shift."

Live Sample Sites and Early Access Program: Two New Ways to Explore ConcourseConnect

Jeff H. — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:30:00 GMT

We're excited to announce the launch of six live sample sites based on common use cases for our ConcourseConnect product.

We've set up six fully functional sample sites to provide an interactive way to learn more about ConcourseConnect and to provide inspiration for your projects by illustrating some key use cases.

Each of the sites highlights a different implementation of the platform while illustrating the six default configurations available with ConcourseConnect. These configurations include variations in layout, functionality, selection and location of various content portlets, etc.

Visit our Solutions page to access the sites and view a short description of each.

In addition, our Early Access Program is now live. This program gives the community a chance to access the beta version of ConcourseConnect. To learn more about the program,