Awareness Networks, Social Marketing Hub an enterprise class community platform has launched their own tool that has Facebook, youtube, flickr, Twitter, and of course connect with their own community features. They provide Twitter integration tools, scheduling, workflow, listening tools, multiple author management, and management dashboard tools Distributed Engagement Channel by DEC   Their system offers the ability to publish content, moderate UGC submissions, and track and optimize channel performance. CMS platforms allow users to publish and manage their website content. MORE >>

View Comments The Stack: The Fifteen Classes of the Social Business Software Suite (Q4, 2010) Categories: Social Media Posted on October 3rd, 2010 Share Background: From Three Software Classes to Fifteen in 4 Years From When I first started as an industry analyst about covering this space there were really only three classes of companies: Social networks like Facebook, community platforms, and existing BBS and Blogging software companies. Sharing Tools: These dead basic technologies allow an individual to share content they find interesting to their social networks. MORE >>

Social Sign On enables visitors to register to your website using their preferred credentials increasing the opportunity for contextual content, website engagement, and conversion] Value Statement Social Sign On offers a variety of benefits: Increase conversion rate as users use existing Social Network logins (in a few clicks) rather than filling out long registration pages. More accurate contextual information as first time users information can be used to match relevant content, media, products, and even advertisements. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. MORE >>

More customers, buyers, and consumers are creating content everywhere they go. They don’t want to end up being trilobites and have become part of a larger system:  Recent acquisitions include Scoutlabs+Lithium(community), Filtrbox+Jive(Community), Techrigy+Alterian(WCM) and others. I’ve seen early examples from community platform Lithium who’s able to predict within 45 minutes if a community will be successful based on comparing to historical data, but for the most part, that’s limited to community data –not the whole social web. MORE >>

and Inbound Marketing Harnessing social & new media to amplify your brand, sustain your community and make you stand out from the rest! Social media marketing is not about using another venue to slam more ads down people’s throats… it’s the wrong place to do that but it is the place to bring useful content to those who already support your enterprise. Grow your credibility – Feed them content (blogs, podcast, pictures, videocast…) that matters to them and their lives – A larger purpose will help. Extanz – PR 2.0 flickr). MORE >>