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Seek Omega: Jive Software vs. MindTouch a Guide for Decision Makers

Out of the box, Jive just works. It ships with over a 100 modules to quickly customize your community. The Microsoft Office connectors allow you to sync offline documents with those on Jive so that you’re not looking at an old version of the document. It’s also makes for a good collaboration tool.

If you want to monitor conversations about your company on social networking sites, then Jive is well suited.

Jive is very wizard driven which means setting up the site is easier than most Enterprise 2.0 solutions. The downside is that their solutions tend to be rigid in structure so changing the look and feel, the business need it solves, etc. can be much more difficult than MindTouch.

Yet out of the box, there are a lot of ways to extend the solution. A few examples include: Activity feeds, simple SharePoint integration, workflow support, and the ability to cut and paste html and CSS code

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Twitter / jonerp: 75% of SAP's 92K customers ...

75% of SAP's 92K customers are SMEs (but keep in mind this includes 45K BobJ customers).

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Does chickenpox still exist? - CNN.com

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10 Huge Successes Built On Second Ideas

It takes a lot of faith in an idea to start a company around it.

But for companies to succeed in the long run, their founders also need to be ready for those ideas to fail. They need to be ready to learn from those failures and adapt.

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Thing 13 Diigo vs Delicious | Learning with Technology

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HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!

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Micro-blogging vs Mega-blogging — Matt Mullenweg

Whether the Twitter team intended it or not, they’ve built a killer and highly addictive reader platform with dozens of interesting UIs on top of it.

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Gourmet Pepper Jam :: Johnson Berry Farm - Tayberry Jam, Berry Jam, Gourmet Jam

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Can Small Changes Save Your Business, and the Planet? - Andrew Winston - HarvardBusiness.org

When I talk about the incredible value in getting lean, of course I'm channeling Amory Lovins (and many other efficiency proponents). The big idea here is that there are not only low-hanging fruit, but fruit on the ground. Many companies that have aggressively pursued efficiency have found vast amounts of money waiting to be picked up, even if the large-scale savings result from adding up many small changes. For example, Wal-Mart improved the fuel efficiency of its entire fleet by over 25% in just a few years with a range of efforts — from new tires to aerodynamic improvements such as side 'wind skirts' to a larger investment in new auxiliary power systems that eliminate idling. (Note that all the improvements paid back in at most two years, the company's internal hurdle rate for investments.)

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