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In this weeks edition of the Vancouver Business Journal I was quoted in an article about Web 2.0 and social software:

Vancouver-based Elguji Software LLC creates and sells social networking software. Its flagship product, IdeaJam, is a virtual suggestion box that allows businesses to collect ideas, solicit and manage feedback and use the “wisdom of the crowd” to rank ideas.

The application has won several awards for its innovative approach.

“People are already talking about your company,” said Bruce Elgort, adviser to the Elguji team. “So you should give them a place to talk and talk with them.”

Elguji offers IdeaJam on a per-server license basis ($12,000 per server), or on a Software-as-a-Service basis, in which the application is hosted off-site on the Internet for $1 to $5 per user.

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Elguji tests its own software at a public website, www.ideajam.net, where customers can comment on IdeaJam and make suggestions for improvements. “We’ve added 140 features based on customer feedback,” Elgort said.

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Posted by Bruce Elgort At 08:00:36 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Features
This morning, possibly not the best choice of day given that it's April 1st, we released the latest beta of IdeaJam to the public ideajam.net site.

There are three fairly visible changes that you may notice immediately. The new "quick" login, to save you having to go to the classic login screen, the new Home Page and we have also replaced the default statistics page with some new Flash charts.

There are also several changes that we've made behind the scenes. We have managed to reduce the number of scheduled agents that are required to keep IdeaJam running, which will save on some server performance. We've added better handling of Replication/Save Conflict documents and there is also now some simple integration with Twitter, so that if you are running a public facing IdeaJam you can notify your followers when a new idea has been posted.

So check out the site, and as always, let us know what you think. We listen to every piece of feedback and are always trying to improve the product in the ways that will be most useful to our customers.

Posted by Matt White At 12:54:06 AM Location London | Permalink | Comments (2)