Service Partners

Future Changes

Stewart Mader, Founder and Senior Consultant, has led or advised enterprise-wide wiki deployments in Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, small and medium size companies. He is the author of two books: Wikipatterns and Using Wiki in Education, and created the widely-used Wikipatterns.com community for sharing enterprise social software adoption strategies. Advisory services include: BarnRaising workshops, Return on Adoption (ROA) measurement, and guidance on Pilot, Policy & Adoption Patterns. His website, Future Changes (futurechanges.org), is a popular source of strategies and guidance on how to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing within teams and organizations. It has been cited by publications including The Guardian (UK), The New Yorker, Fast Company, InfoWorld, and InformationWeek. http://www.futurechanges.org/

Hinchcliffe & Company, Inc.

Hinchcliffe & Company is a leading premier consulting firm in the areas of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, social computing, cloud computing, and next-generation SOA. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, Hinchcliffe & Company delivers strategy and implementation services across North America, Europe, and Asia. Specializing in large enterprises, Hinchcliffe & Company's clients includes some of the largest companies in the world on three continents.

Combining thought leading approaches with agile methods, cutting-edge research and innovative techniques matched with extensive field experience, Hinchcliffe & Company offers one of the most effective and up-to-date approaches for helping businesses transform to newer and more effective models for computing, IT, and business. Hinchcliffe & Company also founded and operates the popular Web 2.0 University, which it uses to drive strategic change in organizations around the world. Learn more about Hinchcliffe & Company at http://www.hinchcliffeandcompany.com.

SpanStrategies

SpanStrategies is strategy and execution services firm that brings together leading strategists, designers and technologists to help our clients accelerate business performance. Our team members have led strategic initiatives for leading organizations such as McKesson, Sun Microsystems, W.R.Wrigley & Co., Ingres and The Sabre Group in the areas of workplace collaboration, sales and marketing process efficiency and distribution partner and supplier networks. With strong roots in business process efficiency, we help our clients understand and exploit new performance acceleration opportunities afforded by social computing constructs and technologies to drive revenue and reduce cost.

Span is based in Palo Alto with a network of domain experts across the United States and Canada. More information at http://www.spanstrategies.com

The 2.0 Adoption Council

The 2.0 Adoption Council is an exclusive community for peer-based, information-sharing on the latest thinking, best practices, case studies, and strategic counsel associated with executing socio-collaborative strategies and projects in the large enterprise. Members include many of the largest market-leading multi-nationals who are currently in some phase of 2.0 adoption. For more information on the Council, visit http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com.

SiftGroups

We provide social media consultancy services and technologies to enable organisations to develop and sustain rewarding relationships with their audiences. Through working with publishers, membership bodies, charities and the public sector, we understand that a rewarding relationship might mean member retention to one organisation, and outright profit to another.

Our techniques help reveal the potential benefits that can be gained from investment in social media, and set out a strategy for delivering and sustaining those benefits.

We've been working with social media for more than a decade. Of course, in the early 1990s the term 'social media' hadn't been coined yet, but communities with common interests were already taking advantage of the web to bring people together to network, discuss and debate. Our home-grown technology platform supported over 100 titles until late-2007 when we made the move to Open Source software, using Drupal to realise the benefits of a huge developer community coming together to deliver advanced functionality and reliability. http://www.sift.com/

Winkwaves

Winkwaves is the Dutch agency for social media and knowledge management. We advise organizations on the strategic meaning and value of social media. Based on a human and scientific understanding of social behavior and profound knowledge of the latest trends in technology, we design virtual places where people like to meet, feel connected, feel safe en feel challenged to have meaningful conversations. http://www.winkwaves.com