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Rob Howard

Rob is the CEO of Telligent, makers of Community Server. His blog is a mixture of technology and business related topics covering his prior experience helping build ASP.NET 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 as well as current perspectives on building and running Telligent. Rob has been blogging since February 2003 while at Microsoft.


Rob Howard's Blog | 21 Oct 2009 14:51

Track mentions on TwitterSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....In August we released our 3rd version of Telligent's tool for helping people measure and understand their community: Telligent Analytics 3.0. Telligent Analytics is unique in that, unlike the myriad of other listening tools available, we started..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 07 Oct 2009 04:03

More than just the applicationSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....From a comment left on this article: http://www.fastcompany.com/article/how-social-media-upending-enterprise   Successful companies put more value on the information than the application. Look at what Amazon has done for consumer buying or what..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 07 Oct 2009 01:10

Test, test... is this still working?Subscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....We've got some great things to share with some updates to the Telligent platform.  In a few weeks we'll share some examples of how you can use ASP.NET MVC to build some really cool applications on top of the Telligent Evolution..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 23 Jan 2009 17:05

Community Platform of the YearSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....Yesterday our Community Server 2008 product was named Community Platform of the Year by InfoWorld for Applications, Middleware, and Data Management. Obviously we're thrilled with the recognition, but we're more thrilled to be associated with a..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 23 Dec 2008 04:18

Graffiti 1.2 releasedSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....Graffiti 1.2 is now available for download. This release includes a number of updates and bug fixes (yes it was a long time coming). We've also published the product roadmap and all current customers will get a free upgrade to the 2.0 version. I..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 15 Dec 2008 19:19

Measuring Social MediaSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....It's not that often that I'm right (and probably much more often that I'm wrong!), but there are several things that Telligent called before the market that I don't hesitate to see us take credit for: Before there was "Social [Networking | Media]"..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 12 Dec 2008 17:03

Enterprise 2.0 Keynote at VSLive!Subscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....Slides from my keynote for the VSLive! conference in Dallas, "Building the Infrastructure of Enterprise 2.0", is published on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/robhoward/vslive-dallas-keynote-presentation/ Posted to Industry..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 12 Nov 2008 16:41

Harvest 2.0 now available!Subscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....Harvest 2.0 is now available. This release includes a significant number of improvements (scorecards, sentiment/tonality, forecasting, and more). Want to learn more? You can watch a great video overview that Jana, the Harvest Program Manager, put..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 04 Nov 2008 12:58

Telligent hires Sociologist Marc SmithSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....Marc Smith, formerly Senior Sociologist Researcher on Microsoft's R&D team, has joined Telligent as our Chief Social Scientist. Marc will lead Telligent's R&D efforts around analytics and business intelligence (tools to help you understand..."
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Rob Howard's Blog | 29 Oct 2008 18:50

McCain or ObamaSubscribe to this feed

Rob Howard writes "....So this is off topic from what I usually like to write about. But it's my blog so tough luck. With the current economic crisis caused in large part by banks making loans to people who really couldn't afford them - and because of people being overly..."
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Rob Howard

Telligent

Dallas, TX, USA

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Rob Howard (robhoward)

Rob Howard (robhoward) @Anna1984 late answer, but yes - it does support threading 61 days ago from web


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Back from 10 day fly fishing trip in Patagonia. Recharged and ready for 2010. 64 days ago from web


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @evolvingWe I think you are right :) 83 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Graffiti CMS is now open source http://bit.ly/7Ejh4U #graffiti #telligent 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Getting ready for another interview with an industry analyst / editor. 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Heard on the Telligent intranet feed, "...enjoyed the holiday party w/o going to the ER..." Good stuff :) 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @brunomlopes we're working on it now, but won't go live until later today #graffiti #telligent 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @CSharpCoder huh? 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @buzzedword the team is working on it now. we should have an announcement later today #graffiti 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @JohnTHopkins nope, we're still on track to push it out today #graffiti 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Still on track for Graffiti open source launch today... #graffiti #telligent 88 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Just launched new Telligent site http://bit.ly/gda8a nice job team! Looks great! 89 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Social media tends to be a type of activity, but collaboration is an activity with a purpose. 91 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Working on a new article for a magazine about the collaboration / social industry 91 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @asedehi re:Facebook connect. Partner has great solution. Used by Nat'l Breast Cancer Foundation. 95 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Early flight back to States tomorrow. Great visit to UK office, but ready to get back to Big D. 96 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Just finished Too Big to Fail (http://bit.ly/5Ujvbn) Great book. Scary topic. 96 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Headed back the US tomorrow morning. I hear there is a threat of snow in Dallas. 96 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) Getting a demo from a partner, Building Blocks http://bit.ly/4BNMTf, that built Vodacom South Africa's employee community on Telligent. 96 days ago from TweetDeck


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Rob Howard (robhoward) @pixel10 note that @seo_sem_smo_it was referring to Teligent a Canadian telecom 97 days ago from TweetDeck