Welcome to the Texas User Group! Please introduce yourself.

I'm the Community Manager for my company's external support community.  This is all fairly new to me and I have learned a LOT of lessons already.  We decided to start out on Jive 5.0 and are currently in beta with hopes of going live sometime in Q1 of 2012.  I was involved in all of the requirements, business decisions, evaluation of vendors (kudos to Jive for destroying the competition with their great platform), and implementation to date.  We are using Jive as a forum for users to help each other as well as a replacement to our current kb in hopes that we can deflect a lot of support calls.  I would like to meet people in or around Houston or Dallas to share best practices for Jive in general and specifically related to external support communities.  I think most of the Texas users are in Austin (that I can tell). If everyone decided to do a Texas meet and greet in Austin at some point I would try to coordinate a drive up if possible.  I'm an Aggie but no hard feelings to all the ut fans. 

Thanks,
Matt

Ryan, Happy New Year! Thanks for setting this up. There should be plenty of local Austin folks interested in this site. A meet up in January seems like a good idea. I spoke with Greg Shirley about this today and told him to contact you. Looking forward to a great 2012 with this excellent community manager group.

cheers

Hello

My name is Brian Reynolds.  I am with 7summits, Jive 2012 Partner of the Year.  7Summits is a social business agency and we provide strategy, implementation UX, and technical services on the Jive platform.  I look forward to engaging with and getting to know this group.

Thanks

Brian

Hello everyone. Mike Mercado from Good Technology here. This will be my 2nd Texas User Group meeting. I'm also a 2 time vet of Jive World. Good times...we'll leave it at that.

Look forward to seeing everyone and discussing the latest with Jive 7 - which is great and distressing all at the same time since we're still on Jive 5. So one of the topics I want to hear about is the transition service to help companies move their hosted instance over, and experiences of those who have made this migration.

The other is SalesForce integration. There is a push to adopt Chatter (yikes!) and I need all the ammo necessary to keep that from happening.

See you in Austin.

MM

Hello,

Happy to join this group. I work with PwC consulting around strategy for our clients using internal collaboration networks. I'll have to find when the next Austin meet-up is.

Thanks,

DJN

Looking forward to the next meeting Ryan Rutan and gang.  Is that really going to happen in August?

Hi everyone - I'm Emily with JCS Consulting.  We are expanding into Texas by way of clients, so I wanted to take a moment and introduce myself.  I hope to meet all of you soon.   All of our clients work with Jive in a variety of ways.  I'll be happy to share best practices we've developed to whomever is interested.  I'll definitely come out for the next user group meeting in Jan or Feb!

Hello,  Just joined today.  My name is Forrest Lymburner and Im running the Trusted Global Buyers Network (TGBN) - https://www.tgbn.com  We just launched today in production so things are crazy.  I am the former community manage for texas Instruments and Rackspace as well.  Looking forward to collaborating with you all!

Hola!  My name is Toni Nash and I just joined 7Summits, a 2012 Jive MVP Alliance Partner, as the Market Leader for the South.  I am based in Austin and look forward to meeting you all at the next meet up!  7Summits - Social Business Agency: Based in Milwaukee and Chicago

Hi! I'm Rachel Duran. I am an Online Community Manager for RadioShack. I'm in the DFW area, and am a member of Fort Worth Social Media Club. Nice to meet everyone!

Hi, I am front end developer, with 4.5 years of experience, currently working with Deutsche Bank, Bangalore. I have just started working largely in Jive, Initially I was using as a normal user. I want to go in depth of Jive architecture and the functionality. I have worked on HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and responsive web design and now learning node.js

Hi.  We just got JIVE for Spredfast and I'll be working to put together our internal community and employee engagement strategy.  Would be happy to host a meet up at our offices in downtown Austin.

Hello,

I am the new the new external community manager for Charles Schwab Corp. and am located in Austin. I am new to Jive so everything is still pretty new to me. I hope to learn more about the capabilities/limitations available in Jive in order to help drive our broader strategy. I look forward to the next meetup for this group.

Howdy Group!

I love living in Austin but also get to travel often to my company based out of San Francisco. We are close to finishing year one of our JIVE implementation and still so much to learn! It has been an interesting year. Looking forward to connecting with you.

Hi There!  I am in Houston and new to the Jive community - evaluating Jive for a client.  Would love to hear if you are using this tool for an internal or external community and am eager to learn from everyone's experience!

Hi everyone. I recently started a new role and am now managing my company's Jive community. I came from a company that has a very active community where I was a member, but not the community admin, so I although I'm familiar with Jive, I have a TON to learn. I welcome any suggestions that you have on getting up to speed on all of the functionality of the platform and would love to attend any user group events in the Austin area.

Hi Everyone!

My company (Trapeze Group based in Toronto) recently rolled out Jive to our customers. I've become an internal Subject Matter Expert on how to use it. I live outside Austin and look forward to meeting other users that have been using it for a long time. Hopefully to get tips and tricks on how to best use it.

Hi All!  I recently joined my company (Xome) and took on managing their JIVE internal community, which is also relatively new. I am new to JIVE, so I have a lot to learn. I am in the Dallas area, so if anyone in that area wants to meet up, let me know!