December 2010 | Gilbane Conference - Portal vs. Enterprise Social Software Panel
Jordan Frank writes: At the Gilbane Conference last month I stood in for Greg Lloyd in the Portal or Enterprise Social Software: Which Collaboration Environment to Choose? panel with David Seuss (CEO, Northern Light) and Jay Batson (Co-Founder and VP, Acquia).
19 Nov 2009 | Ontologies & Tagsonomies at Taxonomy Boot Camp
While at KMWorld 2009, Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development led a customer panel titled What's Social About Software and co-led a talk with Christine Connors of TriviumRLG at KMWorld 2009's counterpart, Taxonomy Boot Camp. In the session, Ontologies & Tagsonomies: Linked Data, Web 3.0 Tag Mush! Christine addressed questions including: What do ontologies provide that taxonomies and thesauri lack? What is the big deal about the semantic web? What’s the difference between the semantic web, linked data, and Web 3.0 and what are the technologies that will power this next evolution of the web? Jordan explored how driven social tagging can work for or against you and then suggests tagging and search driven entity extraction strategies that can put tagging to productive work. » Click here for the PDF of Jordan's presentation.
Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference & Presentation on What is Social About Software
This year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference was June 22-25. Traction® Software had a booth and Jordan Frank presented in the Market Leaders track on "What is Social About Software? And Why it Matters." Here's the presentation (PDF) and its abstract:
22-24 April 2009 | SCIP Conference booth and Presentation on Tagging Strategies for CI
The Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals SCIP 2009 annual conference will be held next week in Chicago - 22-24 April 2009. Come see Traction® Software at our booth and at Jordan Frank's Clinical Skills Track presentation, Tagging Strategies and the Information T, on Thursday 23 April at 11:35 AM. You can also register for the free Intelligence 2.0 Clinic on April 22nd hosted by AuroraWDC (SCIP 2009 registration is not required for the Clinic)
22 April 2009 | Intelligence 2.0 Clinic
If you're attending the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professional's annual SCIP 2009 conference next week - or happen to be in Chicago - join us from 2:00 to 5:00 PM on Wednesday April 22 for a free Intelligence 2.0 Clinic moderated by Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC and featuring CI Software and Systems from Traction® Software, Digimind and Comintell. SCIP registration is not requried to attend the Intelligence 2009 Clinic. The event will be held in the Lincoln Executive Boardroom at the Sheraton Chicago. Click Here to find our more and RSVP.
April 2009 | Knowledge Management Forum Japan
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Japan launched Traction's Japanese website (tractionsoftware.jp) and brought Traction® TeamPage to a large audience this month at Knowledge Management Forum 2009 in Japan.
18 February 2009 | Jordan Frank and Chris Nuzum to speak at Providence Geek Dinner
As T.F. Green’s now-under-construction Intermodal Facility attests, a lot of cool stuff is being built in the Ocean State. Some of it isn’t as easy to spot though. One very cool project is the work of Providence-based Traction® Software. Consistently recognized as a leader in social software for the enterprise, Traction’s award-winning Traction® TeamPage platform includes blogs, wikis, social tagging & bookmarking, and now, “live blog micro-messaging” (think real-time Twitter for business). At February’s Geek Dinner, Jordan Frank, VP Marketing & Business Development, and Chris Nuzum, Co-Founder and CTO, will present their insights into the nature and importance of social software, demo TeamPage, and answer questions from the audience. » Join at least 40 others from RI and the surrounding areas and RSVP Here. » Also, read Jordan's companion blog post on RI Nexus for this event.
24 September 2008 | Frank speaks on "Whither Documents - Putting Hypertext to Work" at KMWorld
Jordan Frank speaks on "Whither Documents: Putting Hypertext to Work on the KM 2.0 Path" at KMWorld 2008. Frank will provide context in terms of the history of communication and collaboration - then discuss how simple tools like wikis and blogs have put us on the precipice of a new era that will force us to rethink our fundamental document and content organization models. Frank will speak at 3:00 PM on Wednesday September 24 in the Enterprise 2.0 in Action track. » Read the Full Press Release » Read the Session Description at the KMWorld 2008 Conference Web Site
6-8 October 2008 | Third Annual Traction Software User Group Meeting
Traction Software is happy to announce the Third Annual Traction User Group (TUG) Meeting to be held this year at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay October 6-8 2008. With customer presentations from the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions and manufacturers, this year's TUG meeting provides one of the best forums of the year for in depth Enterprise 2.0 case studies, best practice sharing, and lessons learned. A TeamPage Developer Track also offers a terrific opportunity to learn how use Traction's Skin Definition Language and other extensions to make widgets, forms, interface tweaks, and completely customized user experiences. Click here to register now or learn more about TUG 2008 [ TUG 2008 registration closed ].
23 July 2008 | Virtual E2.0 Conference - Traction Sponsors Forrester Keynote
Register Now (free admission) to join in on the Enterprise 2.0 Virtual Conference on the 23rd of July. The Agenda kicks off at 12:00 with Gartner Analyst David Mitchell Smith's Keynote Innovating the Enterprise with Web 2.0 and ends with a Forrester Analyst Rob Koplowitz's Keynote Control vs. Chaos: The Enterprise Web 2.0 Effect.
25 June 2008 | Frank Speaks on Non-Subject Tagging at Boston KM Forum
Jordan Frank's presentation "Non-Subject Tagging in an Enterprise 2.0 World" was featured on the agenda of the Boston KM Forum's latest meeting titled "Categorization and Tagging - Where's the Beef?" » Read the presentation » Read the Meeting Agenda.
10-11 June 2008 | Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Frank speaks on E2.0 in Action
Traction® Software is proud to be a sponsor again this year at the E2.0 2008 Conference in Boston. Jordan Frank speaks on "Putting Wikis, Blogs and Tagging to Work - Enterprise 2.0 in Action": How E2.0 applications can deliver on the content leverage and re-use goals that "1.0" CMS systems promised but never fulfilled. » Read More at the Conference Website. » Read Jordan Frank's Presentation (PDF)
28 November 2007 | Gilbane Conference - Jordan Frank on Text Mining
In the Text Mining / Text Analytics and BI - The End Game panel, Jordan Frank's presentation explains how enterprise blogs are critical infrastructure for text mining and enterprise search. The panel was moderated by Joyce Ward of LexisNexis. Frank was joined by Matt Kodama of Endecaand Steven Cohen of Basis Technology.
7 November 2007 | Frank on "E2.0 in Action" at KMWorld 2007
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for Enterprise
2.0 & Enterprise 2.0 in Action” presentation was
featured in the Enterprise of the Future: Strategies Track
at the KMWorld 2007 Annual Conference. Frank discussed blog and wiki
use cases within the enterprise, enterprise social tagging strategies,
and 6 enterprise and government customer stories including ShoreBank,
NHS, the US Department of Defense, and others. Click here for a copy of the slides presented by Frank.
24 October 2007 | Frank Speaks on Tagging Strategies at ASIS&T 2007 Annual Conference
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for
17 October 2007 | Greg Lloyd Presents "What's Next in Wikis and Weblogs" at NAC Fall 2007
Greg Lloyd speaks today at the Network Application Consortium's fall conference on Collaboration Technologies: What Works, Whose is Easier, What's Secure and Where's the Intersection.
19 September 2007 | Chris Nuzum Presents Traction at Providence Geeks Dinner
From Providence Geeks, Digital Innovators in the City-State: This Geek Dinner was a heavily-attended double header (RI Nexus and Traction Software). Chris Nuzum, CTO of Traction Software, spoke about their award-winning enterprise wiki… it’s actually much more than a wiki.
11-12 September 2007 | Traction User Group Meeting
Our second annual Traction User Group (TUG) meeting was held last week in Newport, RI. The two day event featured twenty-six speakers including:
19 June 2007 | E2.0 Conference - E2.0 in Action ShoreBank Case Study
The E2.0 in Action track's Enterprise 2.0: Case Studies of Excellence - Part 1 panel will feature Traction® Software's Jordan Frank who will show how Traction® TeamPage is used as a blog and wiki platform for Milestone Management at ShoreBank. The panel, moderated by Brian Gillooly (editor in Chief of CMP's Optimize) will also include presentations from iUpload, Denodo, Newsgator, and Smartsheet. See also Enterprise 2.0 Podcast interview with Mike Gotta.
4-5 June 2007 | Interdoc Symposium - Frank to Speak on Enterprise Wikis
Jordan Frank will bust 2.0 myths before bringing the relevance of Web 2.0 to the enterprise to light with enterprise case studies from finance, pharmaceutical, government and non-profit markets. He will finish off with best practices that all but guarantee real results. » Full Conference Schedule
31 May 2007 | Traction TeamPage a hit at LinuxWorld Japan
Congratulations to our Japanese partners SEL and AKJ on a great showing for Traction TeamPage at LinuxWorld Japan 2007. SEL was a gold sponsor and launched a Japanese TeamPage customer forum in advance of the event.
22 May 2007 | Greg Lloyd on Interop 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Panel
Greg Lloyd (Traction Software Inc) joins Dion Hinchcliffe (Hinchliffe & Company), David Barnes (IBM), and Rod Boothby (Teqlo) for a discussion and demonstration of the latest Enterprise 2.0 products and trends. This is part of the Enterprise 2.0 track organized by Dion Hinchcliffe. To download Greg's PowerPoint slides - including a screenshot walkthrough of the demo = a big file! click here (15MB .ppt)
7 February 2007 | FASTforward '07
Greg Lloyd will speak on the topic "Search Meet Blogs and Wikis" at FASTforward '07, the FAST Search & Transfer user group meeting.
23 January 2007 | SCIP Boston Chapter Meeting
The SCIP Boston Chapter hosted a meeting this week titled "Harnessing Web 2.0 For Competitive Intelligence." Greg Lloyd joined the panel to talk about the impact of Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, RSS and social tagging on the competitive intelligence process. An agenda is posted at the Knowledge is Power CI Forum.
23 January 2007 | CBI Predictive Intelligence Conference
At this pharmaceutical industry conference hosted by CBI, Jordan Frank, joined by Matt Cole of QL2 Software, gave a presentation titled "Synthesizing Data from Blogs for Future Projections and Pattern Assessment." The presentation discussed methods for data mining and visualization of content from internet blogs as well as capturing the breadth of data types to consolidate information in enterprise blogs, in support of further mining and content collaboration.
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