Sunday, December 23, 2007

Collective Intellect-- - -Turn social media into business intelligence

What Company Is Offering:
Collective Intellect is the only real-time provider of data on social media. They provide you actionable, data-driven intelligence on the impact of user-generated content across blogs, social networks and message boards, as well as traditional media.

Social media is now a mainstream phenomenon in which critical word-of-mouth moves quickly and virally. Knowing who is saying what about stocks, brands, campaigns or businesses online is now crucial intelligence.

How It Works:

Collective Intellect, Inc. specializes in comprehensively tracking, filtering and ranking media content for the Fortune 500. The founders have worked in Business Intelligence for years, creating tools to solve the problem of filtering unstructured information.

Building customized technology tools lets us help our customers gain a competitive business advantage using New Media throughout their organization. Across blogs, discussion boards and social networking websites, Collective Intellect uses a combination of advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and old-fashioned human ingenuity to identify emerging New Media and traditional media content. This approach produces more comprehensive, timely and relevant results than what you can pull using traditional web search tools. Collective Intellect also builds topic-based community platforms which foster corporate interaction with the millions of New Media denizens.

Who Is Behind The Company:

Don Springer, President and CEO
Mr. Springer is a successful entrepreneur who founded two previous companies and returned more than 500% to his investors. Prior to Collective Intellect, he was General Manager of the Business Process Optimization Group at webMethods. During his tenure, he led more than 40% revenue growth in consecutive quarters, reaching an annualized run-rate of $30M for his business group. Mr. Springer co-founded Dante Software, a venture capital-backed company acquired by webMethods (WEBM) in the fall of 2003. Prior to Dante Software, he was a co-founder of iauthentic, a natural products e-commerce portal acquired by Whole Foods Markets in 1999. Mr. Springer has worked for Silicon Graphics, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Augat Inc., an electronics component manufacturer now part of Tyco. He has an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and a B.S. in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.
More at:http://www.collectiveintellect.com/

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