WordFrame Partners meeting in Plovdiv

The last two weeks we, at ITBrix / WordFrame, had the privilege of having representatives of 4 partner companies visiting our Plovdiv office. The visits had been planned in the previous months and although Des Walsh from Australia and George Dearing from Texas could not make it for personal reasons, we had a lot done. Social Media Today could not send anybody this month but they are sending Mark Lazen to Plovdiv next month.

Here are the participants in the peaceful “invasion” we were so happy to host:

1. Paul Fox from GroupCom and the project that will really surprise a lot of people in the collaboration, social media and community building area – Neighbo.com

2. Eric Andersen from Parnassus Group and Blog Business Summit

3. Synergy3 had three representatives in Bulgaria last week, Liz Dietz, Vicki Tambellini and Tim Liu. The visit helped Synergy3 to meet in person the developers responsible for two of their most important projects – Edu1World.org and BellaSavio.com

4. David Terrar, who is also the latest addition to the ITBrix management board and owners’ list

There were two important events happening during the visits – the first one being that The WordFrame partners met in one place and began important discussions and interaction between each other; and the second one - all the participants were given the first demo of WordFrame2 Enterprise Platform. Jerry Bowles and Mark Lazen from Social Media Today participated via GoToMeeting Session. I will present more facts in the near future and leave David to be more specific for now. I will reserve the right to publish some nice stories and achievements by our partners soon. The meetings and discussions were of huge importance for all of us. We got to know each other better and we identified business niches and concepts that we could not have done so successfully by working separately. Isn’t this what the collaboration is all about?

We have planned another Meet-Up like that in the near future, before December 1st to discuss and implement the new marketing plan and policy of WordFrame. A marketing plan which is completely dependent on the WordFrame2 Enterprise implementation and our partner eco-system we are successfully implementing. I want to personally thank to all participants as well as to Jerry Bowles, Robin Fray Carey, Mark Lazen and Des Walsh for the continuous support and time devoted to the WordFrame partnership

Three WordFrame partners and 5 WordFrame powered sites on AllTop.com

It is a great thing to see your product getting the recognition it deserves.

We have been following AllTop.com, the latest venture of Guy Kawasaki, closely and we are happy with the way it goes. We are even happier to see three of our partners listed in the Social Media Category as well as 5 WordFrame powered sites. Des Walsh and Social Media Today have their separate section and most of the sites listed on those sections are powered by WordFrame Community Platform v1.0.

We are really eager to see what will be the case when we have the WordFrame Enterprise 2.0 up and running later this year as WordFrame 2.0 will be the real “killer” social media platform.

WordFrame Weekly demos, schedule and info

Des Walsh, our Australian partner and I had a small discussion today in regards to the WordFrame Community Platform weekly demos. I realized that we do not have this properly announced on the WordFrame website and nor have I blogged about it. I will now try to fix the mistakes on our side.

We have a scheduled weekly demos every week, Friday at noon, 12:00 PM, Mountain Standard Time. This is respectively 2:00 PM Eastern or 11:00 AM Pacific time. The demos are done either by me or David Terrar. We do them online with either a skype conference or a Conference call number. The visualization is done via LiveMeeting.

David and I already planned another regular weekly demo for the rest of the world as this one is convenient for the interested in WordFrame on the North American continent. The other demo time and day will be announced later next week when we finish the planning and coordination for these regular events with David Terrar and Des Walsh. Our Asian prospects and customers seem to grow rapidly and we have to take care of them too. So, we will inform you guys about that next week.

The European and the Asian oriented WordFrame demos will be done on GoToMeeting as David is not very big fan of LiveMeeting.

We will post the demos’ details both on the Blog site here and on the WordFrame product site.

PS. Des would be mad at me calling him our Australian partner because the proper term, is Australasian. Sorry Des

WordFrame in the Blogosphere

WordFrame is getting more and more popular and loved these days. We have happily spotted two wonderful articles about WordFrame these past couple of days.

The first article is by David Tebbutt from Freeform Dynamics . The article correctly describes what we do, how we do it and most importantly, it points out a couple of places where we can certainly make the system better. Thanks David. I can assure you that with feedback and critique like that we will do our best and everything possible to convert your wise comments and advises into user friendly functionalities.

Here is the URL of the article as well: Click here to Go to the Original Article !
http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2008/02/25/wordframe-social-computing-with-a-pedigree/

The second article is from our partner in Australia Des Walsh. He described what WordFrame does very well. He presented WordFrame through his own “consulting business approach” eyes. He fit one of the WordFrame application towards the proper market segment and niche and pointed out the key differentiators between WordFrame and the competition. He did not miss the importance of the development team, the custom work and a couple of facts from our organizational and support structure.

Here is the actual URL for the article form Des: Click Here to go to the Original Article!
http://deswalsh.com/2008/02/27/new-enterprise-20-social-media-platform-wordframe-launched/

David and Des, thank you very much for the kind words and honest opinion.