Hi everyone I'm Grant from Auckland New Zealand and I'm the Head of Community and Resource Development for a consultancy called ON-Brand Partners. www.onbrandpartners.com Our focus is to connect people and strategy within their organisations to deliver better performance. The reason why we exist is that too many organisations have good strategy but it's failing simply because their people 'just don't get it'. This scenario is way to too but thankfully we have some very clever people, processes and tools to get it sorted.

One part of my role is to help organisations leverage all the promise that the exciting new world of social networking has to offer in building strong communication, knowledge and collaboration. A core focus now is to ensure our ON2net community (www.on2net.biz) delivers on its promise of being 'a place for people who want to create better organisations – organisations with renewed purpose where everyone is engaged, empowered and excited to deliver on its brand promise and improve performance - organisations that are ON-Brand.'

PS: fellow community members from the US - yes that is how we spell organisation

Hi, I'm Julie from General Dynamics Land Systems in Sterling Heights, Michigan.  Land Systems’ mission is to provide a full spectrum of land and amphibious combat systems, subsystems and components worldwide.  I will be attending Jive World and was hoping to speak with other Jive customers in the Defense Industry or customers/users in the Detroit area.  I am the Community Manager and System Admin. 

Welcome Julie. Be sure to track down Todd Miller. He'll be speaking about the US Army's 150k person community. You can find out more at http://www.jivesoftware.com/jiveworld/agenda, but here's the session abstract.

Track 3:

Cutting Edge Collaboration Behind the Military Firewall

Today’s soldiers are accustomed to Web 2.0 social media applications like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Blogger, as well as media sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube. The current generation is commenting on blogs, editing wikis, making connections in social networks, and sharing and communicating with others on a global scale. This change in culture that is spreading across private industry comes in direct conflict with the military tradition of sharing with those who have a “need to know.” To combat these changes in climate the Military has created milSuite, a collection of social media applications aimed at providing secure collaboration using cutting edge capabilities.

Join this session to learn about how the Military connects over 150k people with the Jive-powered milBook, a secure professional networking capability available to the entire Department of Defense (DoD) through a users Common Access Card. The session will discuss lessons learned from working in the Military environment, how Jive is being extended to meet the demands of DoD users, and how milBook is changing the way people collaborate and share knowledge in a traditionally closed environment.

Todd Miller, Symbolic Systems, Representing PEO C3T MilTech Solutions, U.S. Army

Great recommendation, Tim! 

Thanks, Gia.  You're doing a great job, btw!

Hi folks. Currently helping to launch an internal community site. Will be seeking your expert assistance because I know the Jive user group contains the top expertise. I will be asking many questions. In advance, thanks for your assistance.

Great to hear - you've come to the right place. Experienced customers and of course many Jivers like Gia and myself are here to help!

Hello. I am Emiko and I am very interested in social innovation.

I was majoring social innovation and computer science at the university.

I am looking forward to hear lots of ideas here and make something new together!

Hi Gia

I work for Logica in the UK, working in the content management space. I have been looking at collaboration systems for some time (since the early days of Documentum's iTeam product). Looking forward to seeing how Jive 5 works and brings people together.

Mark

Hello Gia,

my name is Florian based out of Munich, Germany. I have a 10 years social collaboration background as a sales specialist. I have started with portals moved to eRoom/documentum and got aquired by EMC. At EMC I have been working and selling on serveral collaboration solutions like eRoom, Outlook client for documentum or SharePoint Client for documentum. Meanwhile Jive has a very simliar offering. At EMC I have been running succesfully the internal Mac OS community on the Jive platform. After EMC I have been moving to secure collaboration cloud provider.

At the moment I am investigating on the business opportunities based on the Jive platfrom to see how to take Jive forward within Europe.

Florian