Jive Congratulates Customer Claire Flanagan of CSC, Recipient of 2.0 Adoption Council's 'Internal Evangelist of the Year' Award
Jive Congratulates Customer Claire Flanagan of CSC, Recipient of 2.0 Adoption
Council's 'Internal Evangelist of the Year' Award
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise 2.0 Conference --
Company News
-- Jive, the Social Business Software leader, today congratulated Jive
customer Claire Flanagan, Senior Manager, Knowledge Program and
Enterprise Social Collaboration, at Computer Sciences Corporation for
being awarded the 2.0 Adoption Council's "Internal Evangelist of the
Year."
-- The 2.0 Adoption Council awarded its inaugural, prestigious "Internal
Evangelist of the Year" award on November 3 at the Enterprise 2.0
Conference in San Francisco. According to the 2.0 Adoption Council,
the
award winner exemplifies, "the tenacity, courage, and sheer energy it
takes to inspire a large enterprise to embrace the principles and
practices of Enterprise 2.0." The award was presented to Flanagan by
Andrew McAfee, widely regarded as the "father" of the enterprise 2.0
movement.
-- Last week at the JiveWorld Conference in San Francisco, Flanagan
accepted a Jive Social Business Software (SBS) Award on behalf of CSC,
a
global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services.
CSC received the Community Adoption Award for the launch of its
internal
community "C3: Connect. Communicate. Collaborate." Under Flanagan's
leadership, C3 enjoyed viral success in only 20 weeks, achieving
25,000
registered users, creating over 2,000 new groups, and generating over
1
million page views a month.
Jive Commentary
-- "Internal Evangelists are the true heroes of the Enterprise 2.0
revolution, preaching the principles of the 2.0 movement, building the
C-level business cases, and driving adoption across large
enterprises,"
said Susan Scrupski, founder of the 2.0 Adoption Council. "Claire
embodies the spirit of the Internal Evangelist and will help inspire
other evangelists who are looking to drive seismic change in their
enterprises. To quote one of her colleagues, 'I believe Claire's
program
marks a clear line in the sand, a before and after point in time for
CSC.'"
-- "Claire has been a tireless advocate of Social Business Software
within
her organization and within the greater Enterprise 2.0 community. She
is
very deserving of this accolade," said Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive
Software.
"I speak for all of Jive in congratulating Claire on being recognized
by
her peers to receive the Internal Evangelist of the Year award. She
has
set an example of what Social Business Software can accomplish within
large enterprise settings, and she continues to help guide Jive on
expanding that vision through future innovation."
Additional Resources
-- Enterprise 2.0 E2TV broadcast of the Internal Evangelist of the Year
award
-- Jive Software Website
-- 2.0 Adoption Council
-- Computer Sciences Corporation
About 2.0 Adoption Council
The 2.0 Adoption Council was founded by SoCo Partners. Susan Scrupski, founder
of SoCo Partners, has been tracking Enterprise 2.0 since its inception in
2006. She brings a unique insight into the adoption curve for large
enterprises and has firsthand knowledge of the myriad of barriers between
desire and full-scale adoption. More information on the Council can be found
at http://www.20adoptioncouncil.com
About Jive Software
Jive frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and
workflows that typically are trapped inside of emails, phone calls or
meetings. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global
2000 companies and governments, Jive combines social networking software,
collaboration software, and community software into the first solution to
effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform
built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views.
SOURCE Jive Software
Aaron Wessels of Reidy Communications, +1-415-643-8090,
aaronw@reidycommunications.com, for Jive Software
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