After making it through two rigorous rounds of voting, CubeTree, The Garland Group, Twiki and XWiki made it to the Final Four and presented live on the keynote stage on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Each of the presenters had 5 minutes to demo their product, and after each company had their turn, the audience participated in a live text-to-vote, courtesy of our friends at Mozes.
The results tabulated in real-time percentages, and with 42% of the vote, CubeTree was crowned the Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco Launch Pad winner. When CubeTree’s CEO & Co-Founder was asked to explain how he felt about winning Launch Pad in 140 characters or less, Carlin Wiegner succinctly replied that he was happy. Nice one Carlin.
I wanted to personally thank Steve Wylie, the Enterprise 2.0 Conference GM, for letting me serve as chairperson for the compeition. Big thanks to Carlin, Brad, Jitendra, Milind and Ludovic for doing such a great job and helping to make this program a huge success! Cheers guys.
If you haven’t done so already, be sure to take a moment and peruse our 8 Launch Pad quarter-finalist videos and cast your vote before tomorrow evening.
Our 8 quarter-finalist were chosen to by the E2 team as the best, brightest and most innovative tools from the general pool of submissions. We’re now looking to the E2 community to check out their 3 minute videos and select your favorite. Please note that you can only vote one time for the vid you would like to see move to the next round.
The 4 finalists with the most votes will be announced on October 16 and provided the chance to a give a 5 minute demonstration of their application live on the keynote stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on November 4.
Are you one of the 8 quarter-finalists? Help get the word out to your network to start voting using #e2conf-lp and #e2conf.
After reviewing the impressive submissions and internal deliberation, Enterprise 2.0 is pleased to announce the Launch Pad 9 quarter-finalists from Round One’s Twitter submissions. They are, in alphabetical order…
MikejMorley: Connect employees to the purpose of the org, allow emp’s to see what eachother are working on&realize the Harvest of human capitol #e2conflp
thegarlandgroup: @e2conf - RiskKey, our real-time compliance mgmt tool for banks, promotes transparency, collaboration, and trust. They need us. #e2conflp
incentivelive: #e2conflp An enterprise wiki, blog, social network and widget platform? Great GUI & .NET? Well you’ve guessed right, it’s not Sharepoint :)
ldubost: @e2conf 80% of enterprise’s information is unshared. #XWiki allows it with a top notch enterprise Wiki with structuration and APIs #e2conflp
These eight quarter-finalists move to Round Two where our community will vote on the 3 minute video they create. We’ll tally the Round Two votes and announce the four finalists on October 16, 2009. The nine quarter-finalists can find details on how to upload their video to YouTube here.
Be sure to cast your vote for your favorite vid when we open up the community vote from October 9 to October 14.
If you’ve been working hard on that 140 character pitch, a friendly reminder that we need your Launch Pad submission tomorrow to be considered for the chance to present on the main stage at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco on November 4, 2009.
We’ll announce the 9 quarter-finalists on September 28 . Those lucky 9 will then move on to Round 2 video submissions.
Interested in entering? First let us know who you are, and then Twitter pitch to #e2conflp. For more information check out the official Launch Pad site.
Back by popular demand, Launch Pad is open for business!
Register your company here, and we’ll email you instructions on how to Twitter pitch. Round 1 Twitter submissions will close September 25, and the Enterprise 2.0 team will announce the 8 finalists on September 28. Those 8 finalists will then submit video pitches and go through one more round of voting by the E2 community. The final four will be given the opportunity to give a 5 minute live presentation from the main stage, plus a complimentary exhibit space on the Enterprise 2.0 show floor.
Launch Pad is the premiere platform for unveiling new social tools within the enterprise. To get a sense of the innovative companies that have submitted in the past, take a peek at our four finalists from the Launch pad at Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2009 last June.
Want more detail on rules and key dates? Take a look here for more information.
Get ready - the fame and the glory that is Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad is coming to the West Coast.
If you are an Enterprise 2.0 start-up with a compelling tool or an existing company with a new application, we want to hear about it. Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad is an incredible opportunity for companies to present to the Enterprise 2.0 community from the main stage and win a complimentary exhibition pod on the show floor.
How does it work? We’ll have 3 rounds to whittle down entrants to our four finalists.
Round 1. Twitter Pitch: E2 staff narrow down the field of entrants to 16 quarter-finalists.
Round 2. One Minute Video: A round of voting by the E2 community to select 8 semi-finalists.
Round 3.Three Minute Video: A round of voting by the E2 community to select our 4 Launch Pad finalists.
Those 4 finalists will be announced in early November and will asked to give a 5 minute demonstrate of their applications live on the keynote stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA on November 2-5. The winner will be chosen by live conference attendees after the four finalists deliver their demo.
Start perfecting those 140 characters and stay tuned for the official Launch Pad Twitter hash tag and website - we’ll open up Round 1’s Twitter pitch on Friday, August 28.
Sometime last year, via automated searches for “Enterprise 2.0,” I found myself repeatedly landing on this prolific blogger’s posts: Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Note Pad (caps intentional; that’s how they do it in France). Although sometimes a struggle to glean the intended meaning from his posts as the translations were a little rough from French to English, I stuck with Duperrin and have found his commentary refreshing and insightful. So, blame it on social media, but that’s how I first discovered blueKiwi– the company that employs Duperrin. I’ve since started following @bduperrin on Twitter and have drafted him into my ITSinsider guild of Enterprise 2.0 warriors.
Last week, the 2.0 Adoption Council kicked off our weekly “Demo Thursdays” with a blueKiwi demo. During the demo there were a number of features that distinguished blueKiwi in crowded field of competitors. As I mentioned the clean, nicely designed user interface makes it easy to figure out what to do fairly quickly. The platform is arranged in a people-centric design that channels content into logical groups. In short, the product has all the bells and whistles, but it has even more than I’ve seen from most social platforms. For instance, it includes a fairly sophisticated ideation feature, as well as support for mobile platforms. While searching around, I found a comprehensive blueKiwi review by Jon Husband when the company launched at Web 2.0 SF. Highly recommend that for further investigation.
Certainly in Europe, blueKiwi is an exceptional contender for your social software business. On our demo conference call, we heard blueKiwi described as “the Jive of Europe.” As I’ve been working with Jive SBS at the Council, and have continued to experiment independently with the blueKiwi platform, I’d have to say blueKiwi has a lot to offer comparatively. Once blueKiwi lands a few large U.S. clients, it will be soon thereafter we will hear blueKiwi’s name mentioned alongside Jive, Socialtext, and Telligent as a top-of-mind category contender.
blueKiwi’s ideation module.
I also enjoyed this introductory video from blueKiwi explaining the basic business benefits for social software in general.
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week in Boston, I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of interesting new companies and products. Video camera in tow, I captured elevator pitches with half a dozen of them: Newsgator, Tomoye, Yakabod, Joyent, nGenera, Box.net and qTask. Here is the E2 elevator pitch extravaganza.
We screened through the fabulous tweets - removing duplicates and RTs (the community support is great but unfortunately only 1 entry per company is allowed). Of the final round 1 submissions, we’d like YOU to vote for the company you’d like to see progress to Round 2 (videos)
Voting commences now and ends at on midnight PST Friday, May 15th. There will be a total of 3 online rounds, and the final 4 companies will present live on the main stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. The winning company will receive a Demo Pod for the 2010 Conference, valued at over $7,500.
Please see our Launch Pad page for a full schedule and more details.
ADD YOUR VOTE NOW!
[Only 1 vote per person. Please note that any suspicious voting patterns will be monitored and removed.]
And a special thanks to the folks at PollDaddy for helping provide this very sexy embeddable poll.
Launch Pad is a main stage event at Enterprise 2.0 Conference where 4 lucky finalists get to pitch their product or idea in front of the largest audience in the E2 community. The first round of submissions for the 2009 edition of Launch Pad is open NOW.
If you’ve got a pitch, we want to hear it.
Round One: Pitch your most interesting product or idea to us via Twitter, in 140 characters or less, including the tag #E2L09
Voting begins on May 8, after which 16 finalists will be announced to move on to the next round for video submissions. Check out the Launch Pad blog post for full details and a participation schedule.
Enterprise 2.0 Conference is the largest and most important event for those using Web 2.0 and social tools to transform their companies. With the addition of more innovative speakers and sessions.
Launch Pad is open to all Pavilion Pass and registered conference attendees. Please register with code CNACEB08 for 20% off a conference or workshop pass, or to receive your free Pavilion Pass. If you have questions about the Launchpad process or schedule, please contact Stowe Boyd, the E2 Launch Pad Head Honcho.
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