Printer Friendly
The Free Library
19,607,053 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Enterprise Communications Veteran Joel Postman to Lead Intridea Strategy Group.


Present.ly Developer Intridea Helps Clients Make the Most of Social Software Investments With Strategy to Complement Design and Development

WASHINGTON -- Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page.
 Web 2.0 company, today announced that Joel Postman, corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise.  strategist, social media authority, and author, has joined the company as Senior Partner and Chief Enterprise Social Business Strategist.

"Many of our clients are interested in a straight development deal," said Yoshi Maisami, Co-founder & Senior Partner of Intridea, "But others want help making sure their social business initiatives complement and support their broader business objectives. Joel has been doing this for Fortune 500 companies for over a decade, in both traditional and 'new' media. With Joel's leadership, we can now provide our clients with Web 2.0 business software design, development and strategy, which is a powerful differentiator."

Postman, author of the new book SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate, and founder of Socialized so·cial·ize  
v. so·cial·ized, so·cial·iz·ing, so·cial·iz·es

v.tr.
1. To place under government or group ownership or control.

2. To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable.
, is responsible for supporting Intridea clients with comprehensive social media strategy development, as well as providing supporting services like policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental , measurement, risk assessment, competitive analysis and training.

"I became aware of Intridea through the great coverage Present.ly was getting," Postman said. "More and more, large companies want to give their people the benefits of things like social networking and real time status updates, but in so many cases, public social apps like Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts.  and Facebook aren't the answer. Intridea has a suite of Web 2.0 applications, and extraordinary development capabilities, putting them front and center among the companies that are leading the latest wave in enterprise social software. Yoshi and the rest of the people at Intridea have built a remarkable company, and I'm privileged to be joining them."

Prior to founding Socialized, Postman was EVP EVP Executive Vice President
EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor
EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon
EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany)
EVP Employee Value Proposition
 for Emerging Media at Eastwick Communications, and held senior communications positions at Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.

Intridea will be at this year's South By Southwest (SXSW SXSW South By Southwest, Inc. (Texas music festival) ), March 13-17, in Austin, Texas. Present.ly has been chosen as the event's Official Micro-blogging Platform.

About Intridea

Intridea, Inc. develops high-performance Web 2.0 applications and services to help enterprises realize the power of cloud computing and social networking. They include Present.ly for enterprise micro-blogging, the SocialSpring social networking platform, MediaPlug media appliance server, and the CrowdSound social feedback widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. . Intridea solutions are based on Ruby on Rails See Ruby.  for agile development. Intridea actively contributes to Rails directly and through open source plug-ins, and it hosts the Acts As Community social network for Ruby developers. Intridea is headquartered in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.intridea.com
COPYRIGHT 2009 Business Wire
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2009 Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Business Wire
Date:Jan 21, 2009
Words:426
Previous Article:Piraeus Bank Live on Fiserv Solution.
Next Article:Patent Pending for LDRA's New Automated Management of Software Requirements.
Topics:

Terms of use | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles