Anthony Nemelka is a long-time veteran of the CRM industry, having previously served as a senior executive at both Peoplesoft and Epiphany and most recently co-founder and CEO at Helpstream. This is the second in his series of posts this week on “The Last Mile of Social Collaboration.” And ending months of speculation, he’s finally [...]
Today’s guest post is by Anthony Nemelka. Anthony Nemelka is a long-time veteran of the CRM industry, having previously served as a senior executive at both Peoplesoft and Epiphany and most recently co-founder and CEO at Helpstream. Rumor has it he’ll be announcing his latest endeavor later this week.
We often save the biggest problems [...]
Missed me? Come on, only been a month — OK, promise to not go away for so long again. Scout’s honor.
Part of the reason I was gone so long was the Gartner Social CRM Magic Quadrant (paid subscription necessary) published last Monday. I had to work with clients on the positioning, the arguing [...]
Before we begin, two caveats:
1) When I said I would never write another series I was so sure this would not happen — then, this became too long…
2) Social CRM is not a technology, never will be. This is the vendor complement to The Roadmap to SCRM [...]
I am doing a Webinar with the incredible Brent Leary and Jacada Wednesday on the topic of Social Experience.
Preparing for this was quite interesting. I was working with some of the slides I have on Social Experience (available on Slideshare) and thinking about the questions that I get almost [...]
What do Ourobouros, Moltke the Elder, and the Battle of Waterloo have to do with Social Media? What is a Community Focus Platoon? How can a path take two opposite directions at the same time? How do Social Business and Moebus Strip compare? How does the game [...]
Lithium (a client, don’t forget to mark that column in your log) acquired Scout Labs (a vendor specializing in Social Media Analytics and not a client). The deal was estimated at around $20MM (not that makes any difference, but am reporting the news here), and is expected to overcome all FTC objections (not that they [...]
Parature (not a client, in case you are keeping track of who is and who isn’t) introduced this morning a new product: Parature for Facebook. It is the first in a line of products they say are going to be introduced in the next few months where they port their customer service solution to Social [...]
Yesterday (when I began to write this) Allegiance (a Voice of the Customer – nee Enterprise Feedback Management vendor) announced they were launching their platform to deliver Voice of the Customer functionality via Social Media channels. I saw a demo of SocialVoice last week, and there are some very interesting features.
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Today Attensity – an analytics and eService vendor – announced they were acquiring Biz360 – a community and social media monitoring vendor. Biz360′s main product will be relabeled Attensity 360 and be offered as part of the Attensity portfolio, pricing will be similar to what is available today. Attensity announced earlier this year a partnership [...]

