Tuesday, September 23, 2008

SocialMinder Helps You Strengthen Your LinkedIn Relationships

What Company Is Offering:
SocialMinder scans your email headers and maps them to your LinkedIn network.SocialMinder identifies relationships that need strengthening
Get weekly updates identifying top opportunities to build a better network
SocialMinder helps identify recent business news to discuss with each contact, no matter how out of touch you are .SocialMinder never sends emails to your associates - they provide you with tools to manage your network better .

How It Works:

It learns from your previous email patterns, reminds you when losing connection, and gives you relevant news items to send to people in your network to make sure that your relationships are not stale. SocialMinder is not like classic CRM solutions which require the user to enter information about each person in their network (since they get that from LinkedIn) and they also do not need for you to enter every interaction that you have with your contacts (since, SocialMinder gets that from your sent email headers).

More at:http://www.socialminder.com/

CityVoter.com is the leading social platform for the insider's scoop

What Company Is Offering:
CityVoter.com is the leading social platform for the insider's scoop. It allows insiders who know a city best to share their insight with information, ratings, and reviews on everyday decisions. By eliminating the guesswork from daily life, CityVoter.com helps people make the best decisions in all aspects of their lives, not just around the big events.

How Much They Got From VCs:

CityVoter.com has closed a second round of funding for $2.6 million. Second round primary investors include Allen & Company and Series A investors Dace Ventures. The company welcomes Curt Viebranz, former CEO of Tacoda, Bradley Wechsler, co-CEO of IMAX, and media investor Vivi Nevo to its advisory board.

This round fuels a period of tremendous progress and growth for CityVoter.com. Its engaging national social platform simultaneously helps innovative media companies like Belo, FOX, Gazette Communications, Hearst- Argyle, McGraw-Hill, and Post-Newsweek engage their local audiences and monetize their websites.


More at:www.CityVoter.com

ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library, and meeting venue all in one

What Company Is Offering:

ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library, and meeting venue all in one. It offers new methods of scientific presentation, scientific discourse and academic knowledge transfer by using video streaming, audio streaming and text features.


How It Works:

Scientific theory and practice will be combined on a national, international and interdisciplinary level. ScienceStage.com will enable scientists, lecturers, academics, students and practitioners from all fields to present and share ideas and findings through video streaming, audio streaming and text documents. They can make use of classical community functions like chat, email, blog etc., they can install virtual rooms, assess contributions, make interesting contacts and much more besides.


More at:http://sciencestage.com/

Tell-a-Friend widget might be the best word-of-mouth marketing tool

What Company Is Offering:

SocialTwist brings Widget Applications that can add a twist to the way visitors use a website or a new way employees of a company collaborate at work. Tell-a-Friend is the first of series of Widget Applications that form "SocialTwist Web".

Tell-a-Friend widget might be the best word-of-mouth marketing tool in existence. Tell-a-Friend makes it possible for your site visitors to share your content with their friends without directing them away from your site. Tell-a-Friend synchs with their IM, email in the context of the content they're sharing without those tedious pop-up forms that require manual input.

More at:http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/