This week I had a call with Karen Keeter and a potential pilot contributor here in New Zealand for Sametime 3D.  It was a very interesting conversation and great to hear Karen talk about what is currently delivered in Sametime 3D. Sametime 3D         View more presentations from Chris Sparshott. (tags: lotus sametime) Business applications [...]

A comment from Andrei Kouvchinnikov sparked a few thoughts about the nature of 3D collaborative solutions.  The new Sametime 3D solution as defined in the flyer talks about some of the 3D collaboration capabilities that will be delivered.  These include but are not limited to: group instant messaging and voice chat three meeting space templates Upload [...]

While trying to decide whether to start up a corporate blogging service for New Zealand based businesses I stumbled upon LiveWorld’s solutions.

“Community Center 2.0 is LiveWorld’s enterprise-scale social network and community platform. It brings together community applications, management tools and systems infrastructure to deliver the best mix of user features, administration, management, reporting and scalability—all flexible enough to tailor to your community requirements. Community Center offers the strongest loyalty marketing, support community and engagement network solution on the market.”

Sounds like a load of the usual marketing guff but the list of customers is impressive and the interview with the CEO below sparks interest. The CEO talks about Generation C for Community connected those born after 1978….interesting but it isn’t really inclusive enough. The new generation is the Opt-In generation. This is where members of all the generations choose to use the latest tools and methods to communicate and interact. While the usage of these new tools is driven by the younger generations the number of “older” folk using the tools is also growing.