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2009

September '09

Socialtext Mobile Brings Enterprise Social Software to SmartPhone Devices

September 2009 coverage by eWeek, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Internetnews.com, ReadWrite Web...

August '09

August 2009 coverage by CRM...

July '09

Microblogging Appliance Delivers a Twitter For Your Intranet

July 2009 coverage by CNET, eWeek, ZDNet, Internetnews.com, ReadWriteWeb, CrunchGear, CIO ...

June '09

Socialtext Unveils Free Enterprise 2.0 Offering Aimed At Mainstream use: Social Spreadsheet Enters Public Beta

June 2009 coverage by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, SJ/SV Business Journals, eWeek, PCWorld, ZDNet, CMS Wire, Fierce Content Management, KMWorld ...

May '09

May 2009 coverage by eWeek, CIO, ZDNet...

April '09

April 2009 coverage by CMS Wire

March '09

March 2009 coverage by PCWorld, CIO, CMS Wire, Fierce Content Management, SiliconBeat

Socialtext Releases Signals Micro-blogging Application for the Enterprise

Socialtext Releases Signals Micro-blogging Application for the Enterprise

February '09

February 2009 coverage by Enterprise Irregulars, USA Today, ReadWriteWeb, SFGate

January '09

SocialText Brings Web 2.0 to Your Company
Wednesday January 28, 2009
What if your corporate intranet could be more useful: say, encouraging employees to collaborate and work together on projects and documents, and facilitating communication among functional
groups and offices in multiple locations? Socialtext, a collaboration platform that can complement or replace your corporate intranet, can do just that.

Business starts to take Web 2.0 tools seriously
By Jessica Twentyman, Financial Times, 1/27/2009
Ross Mayfield, SocialText’s chairman, president and co-founder, says: “Our belief has always been that, when technology doesn’t get in the way, people are eager to share and collaborate, and wikis are a great way to do that. But a corporate customer needs a tool that can accommodate the hierarchies, norms of behaviour and levels of accountability and control that exist already within its culture.”

Slightly different version in the Irish Times

Social Networking Vendor Pays It Forward to the Unemployed
By C.g. Lynch , CIO.com , 01/16/2009
Socialtext, a Palo-Alto based vendor that builds social networking software for enterprises to use in-house, wants to do its part to pay some good will forward at recession time. The company has begun offering all its products for free to laid-off workers from any company that has trimmed 5% or more of its workforce in the past year. They can use the tool to form alumni networks to exchange information about job opportunities or start new companies.

2008

December '08

Socialtext and A Theory of Collaboration and Networks - Ross Mayfield, Socialtext Founder and Chairman, explains the power of tapping into your entire network to find the right people and skill to get a job done.

How To Automate Chaos - Ross Mayfield explains how wikis are excellent for observing a complex process, and how people can use wiki pages to track their work in a set of shared documents that everyone can edit.

Robert Scoble interview with Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee and Founder and Chairman Ross Mayfield about the economy, startups, Silicon Valley, and Socialtext. Watch the videos here.

SocialText Helps Workers Affected in Downturn by Launching Corporate Alumni Network - Socialtext announced an offer to provide a free Socialtext account to aid employees who have lost jobs due to the downturn. The program permits any former employee and HR director of a company that reduced its workforce by 5% or more in the last year to create a Corporate Social Network for free. Also introduced, the Corporate Alumni Network will enable community builders the benefit of the success of others who have used Socialtext to create community in times of economic mayhem. Ross Mayfield - "My hope is that this Corporate Alumni Network offer for the 2009 Recession helps people come together to help each other share job leads, share and collaborate on resumes, share and create events, share and document corporate history, and share new business opportunities for the company and alumni".

Socialtext referenced for enterprise grade collaboration in Network World story on Nine hot technologies for 2009. "Socialtext 3.0 provides social networking, wikis and customizable home pages for the enterprise. "

Socialtext wins Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Award for best Emerging Enterprise Collaboration Solution.

Chosen for the 2008-2009 EContent 100 List - the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.

Wikis That Work In The Real World - "Angel.com, a 70-employee subsidiary of Micro Strategies that provides interactive voice response software, has more than 10,000 internal- and external-facing SocialText wiki pages. One customer-facing wiki acts as a knowledge base for Angel products, while others for employees include video tutorials, training quizzes, and space for collaboration efforts, from developing marketing ideas to planning company picnics."

November '08

Socialtext Launches Widget Wednesday: a Distributed Hackathon for Widgets & Mashups

Also releases its OpenSocial widgets as Open Source

November 3, 2008
KM World - Enterprise-friendly social software
"Our chief investment officer, Brian Trelstad, has been frustrated with knowledge capture since he started in 2004," says Robert Katz, knowledge and communications associate at Acumen. "When I was brought on board this spring, he asked me to work out a solution." Trelstad, who previously worked with a knowledge management system at a large consulting firm, and Katz reviewed many options and together settled on Socialtext.

September '08

Socialtext Delivers Socialtext 3.0

Socialtext Delivers Socialtext 3.0

June '08

Socialtext Unveils SocialCalc, the First Social Spreadsheet

Socialtext Unveils SocialCalc

May '08

Socialtext Elects 20 Year Technology Veteran Julie Hanna Farris to its Board of Directors
Farris Brings Industry Experience with Notable Internet and Open Source Technologies to Support Socialtext's Growth

Socialtext People and Dashboard Launch

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^Key contacts

Ross Mayfield, Socialtext - ross.mayfield@socialtext.com
Gina von Esmarch, Voce PR agency - gvon@vocecomm.com

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