Will Email Really Be the Next Social Network?
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2007
by Rob Hof
I really wonder what kind of social network could be crafted out of my Outlook. Maybe Visible Path, which is melding social networking into work tools, has figured this out, but that’s only on the corporate side. > more
The top 26 Social Networks for Business.
Emerson Direct Marketing Observations
November 15, 2007
We have concentrated so much on niches in regards to social networks, i.e. music, baby boomers and video, that we thought we should shift the focus towards a more business centric viewpoint. Interestingly enough, the basis of these and all social networks really had it’s start in the business world. In part because that was how deals were made, relationships were formed and jobs were had. It was based on who you knew! > more
Social Networks and the Enterprise
CXO Today
November 12, 2007
by N. Raghavan
The buzz around consumer sites such as MySpace and Facebook is perceptible. More enterprise social networking platform vendors have joined the party in recent times. Visible Path for instance, offers a social networking service for businesses which it refers to as Relationship Capital Management, or RCM. > more
Social Network launches, unashamedly purely for Business …
djanbam
November 09, 2007
by Markell Schultz
It combines Hoover’s business information with Visible Path’s relationship management technology to help business users understand who at other companies they should be targeting for relationship building and gives them a way to reach … > more
…another Social Network launches, unashamedly purely for Business Targeting - itsReal
APLink
November 08, 2007
by Carol Krol
Hoover’s, a Dun & Bradstreet company, and Visible Path Corp., a company that helps organizations build corporate networks, on Thursday announced the official debut of Hoover’s Connect, a social network for business. It combines Hoover’s business information with Visible Path’s relationship management technology to help business users understand who at other companies they should be targeting for relationship building and gives them a way to reach those people. > more
Sales Strategy Luminaries and Leading Practitioners Pack First Ever Sales 2.0 Conference
Marketwire
November 05, 2007
by Parker Trewin
On October 30th more than 400 attendees and speakers gathered at the Sales 2.0 Conference to share strategic perspectives and practical insights about how sales organizations can take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to increase sales volume and velocity. The sold-out crowd attended conference sessions that focused on how the Internet can be leveraged to improve sales and service. > more
Enterprise or Business Social Networks
The Web Chef's e-Bytes
November 02, 2007
by Paul Gibler
In the enterprise, we're seeing a range of applications that are promoted under the Enterprise Social Networking banner. These range from full service networked applications with blogs, wikis, networks, video sharing, etc. tied together to more specialized applications targeting a sub-set of activities. > more
Social Media Meets the Corporation
Conferenza
October 31, 2007
by Gary Bolles
The developing corporate uses of social media are fascinating: Once top-down companies are now embracing a range of applications to increase collaboration and encourage innovation. The session simply reinforced my perception that we’re rapidly moving beyond blogs and wikis to a variety of new tools that will both flatten the organization and blur former corporate boundaries. > more
Collab@Work
October 31, 2007
by Romuald Restout
Once again it seems like the consumer world and the business world are not mingling. Indeed all the names that are cited belong to the consumer-oriented social networks (LinkedIn, hi5, Orkut, Plaxo, …). But where are all the corporate social networks? Selectminds, Visible Path, , Zero Degrees, ConnectBeam? Social networks also exist within the organizations, and organizations have specific needs in terms of security and governance. Will we need a separate standard? > more
Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Oct 31, 2007
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
October 31, 2007
by Jeremiah Owyang
I participated on a panel hosted by Visible Path, where we discussed how the social graph of our work lives can be harnessed and captured to improve sales, recruiting, and communication. The big takeaway? We’ve yet as an industry to really leverage the power of people in the enterprise although some tech recruiters are starting to get savvy. > more
Growing Pains: Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into An Enterprise Technology?
TechBizWatch
October 30, 2007
by Andy Dornan
Relatively few vendors are pushing full-scale social networking for intranets. Of those that are, Visible Path is the most ambitious. Its service tries to span the extranet as well as intranet, linking staff to contacts within other organizations as well as their own. Rather than sell directly to enterprises, it prefers to go through partners like Oracle and Salesforce.com, whose CRM systems its social networking is integrated with. > more
Social Graph for the Workplace: A discussion hosted by Visible Path
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
October 29, 2007
by Jeremiah Owyang
I spoke at Visible Path’s (client) Corporate Social Network Design Council in San Francisco today. The panel, moderated by Anneke Seley Founder & CEO, PhoneWorks, included Anthony Lye, SVP of Oracle CRM, Ross Mayfield of Social Text, and Matt Beveridge, the program manager of Motorola’s Internet and Collaboration Technology. > more
Social Networking (?) With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Collaborative Thinking
October 25, 2007
by Mike Gotta
The best effort I've seen to-date to represent the capabilities that do exist into a social networking storyline. But it's just not there yet. There are some others worth mentioning to round things out: Ning, WetPaint, Web Crossing, Prospero, iCohere, Tomoye, Visible Path. > more
Social Networking God: 350+ Social Networking Sites
B-side: Obeservers of the New World
October 24, 2007
by Daksh Sharma
One of the main topics here at Mashable has always been social networking. It has become a huge area to follow, and this article illustrates this well: a collection of social networking sites, all of which were covered in one way or another here at Mashable...Visible Path - Visible Path helps organizations to integrate social networking into their existing tools. > more
There IS Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
Tim's Blog
October 24, 2007
by Tim Peterson
I think it is great that there is a growing demand for sites and software from developers like Visible Path...it's great because I believe that the more transparency that exists between people will result in more cooperation and productivity. > more
The Challenges of Social Media in the Enterprise, why Business and IT need to align
Web Strategy of Jeremiah
October 23, 2007
by Jeremiah Owyang
What’s Visible Path? They offer solutions to map out the “Social Graph” of an enterprise by sifting and organizing unstructured data in Outlook and other repositories. Why is this important? The most important knowledge in many orginizations (HR, Sales, Support, Management) can be relationships, and often in other organizations. Corporations are not islands, but are connected with interstate freeways extending at all edges of the border. > more
TechBizWatch
October 19, 2007
by David H. Freeman
Meanwhile, Visible Path, has released a beta version of its e-mail-tracking tool on its website. Visible Path doesn’t examine the content of messages; it only notes who sends messages to whom, when they send them, and how frequently...to derive reliable insights into whether someone has a close working relationship with a contact versus a cursory one. > more
The New Age of Networking - First in a Series on Online Social Networks
The Whoa Factor
October 16, 2007
by Meme Moi
Another accelerating trend, according to Business Week, is the growth of in-house social networks. Large multi-national corporations are seeking to capture the "wisdom of crowds" and to encourage employees, alumni, retirees, and other stakeholders to interact with one another. Among the companies that are creating these networks are Visible Path... > more
Business Uses of Social Technology
CEO Consultant
October 15, 2007
by Jay Deragon
“Where LinkedIn emphasizes scale and Jobster emphasizes specialization, Visible Path, a start-up based in New York, focuses on the strength of individual relationships. The firm analyzes e-mail traffic, calendars and diary entries to identify the strongest relationships that exist inside and outside a company. An obvious application is to generate leads: a salesman can use the service to identify who within his network has the closest links to a prospect, and request an introduction.” > more
Social Networks at Work Promise Bottom-Line Results
CIO Insight
October 08, 2007
by Edward Cone
Visible Path uses information already on tap by integrating with a host of existing business applications, including popular customer relationship management and collaboration packages from big-name vendors including Oracle and Salesforce.com. > more
Social Networking: A Time Waster Or The Next Big Thing In Collaboration?
InformationWeek
September 22, 2007
by J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek has learned that Oracle is working with Visible Path to integrate Oracle's CRM On Demand application with Visible Path's social networking software. The companies plan to demo the capability at Oracle OpenWorld in November, then make it generally available in the first quarter… The obvious next step is to integrate business social networks with business processes. Forrester analyst Rob Koplowitz sees social networking and CRM integration, like that under way between Visible Path and Oracle, as a great fit. > more
Inc.
August 01, 2007
by Michael Fitzgerald
Online social networks are finding ever more ways to be useful for tasks like finding employees and sales prospects, tracking down expertise, spreading marketing messages, and gathering customer feedback. > more
VentureBeat
July 31, 2007
by Eric Eldon
The company has made two moves to bring new focus: hiring a new chief executive, Cary Rosenzweig, and integrating its technology with the popular online software company, Salesforce. > more
Networking With the Top: Two Executive Information Services Launch
Information Today
July 30, 2007
by Barbara Quint
The social networking algorithms from Visible Path rely on mining contact manager data and statistical analysis of email messaging through an Outlook plug-in. The maps it builds automatically rate relationship strength and path strength to help users choose the most effective and willing potential human links to a target executive. > more
Giant tech, small package: Small business is thinking big
National Post (Toronto Star)
July 27, 2007
by Danny Bradbury
Rather than being exclusive to bigger businesses, social networking has always applied equally to small and large companies alike. But the benefit for smaller firms is that the technology lets them act like larger companies, by putting more resources at their disposal. They can use those resources, in turn, to bring their customers together, or, on the management side, to create informal networks that can help them funnel skills and experience (and perhaps even funding) to where it matters. > more
Information Today
July 26, 2007
by Janice LaChance
Software that captures the capabilities of the human capital (down to the level of the individual) and maps it to the flow of information and knowledge in an organization. It often incorporates social network analysis tools. For some examples, go to http://www.visiblepath.com > more
SaaS-like Capabilities in SuiteTwo
CXOtoday .com
July 19, 2007
by CXOtoday Staff
The hosted version integrates Web 2.0 technologies from Six Apart, SocialText, SimpleFeed, NewsGator, and Visible Path to drive mass collaboration in every area of an organization s operations. The mass collaboration of Web 2.0 applications promises to touch and impact every aspect of businesses and bring products to market faster. > more
Motorola's IT Department Takes On Enterprise 2.0
Intelligent Enterprise
June 20, 2007
by J. Nicholas Hoover
Motorola's initiative, which it calls "Intranet 2.0," has been wildly successful, with 70,000 people using it every day, including partners. The company now has 4,400 blogs and 4,200 wiki pages and uses, among other technologies, social bookmarking and tagging by Scuttle and social networking by Visible Path. "It actually does work," said Toby Redshaw, Motorola's VP in charge of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. > more
Inc.
April 27, 2007
by David H. Freedman
Visible Path, which has made its software available to the public, hopes to create a mass cross-organization network...And Visible Path, which has teamed up with business information provider Hoover's (NYSE:DNB), is eager to sign up entire companies as well as individuals. > more in News
Small Biz Resource
April 27, 2007
by Scott Koegler
Once I find someone I want to connect with, I can send off an email request to my closest contact along the way...the best path is through each person's most active/best contacts, so there's a good likelihood the request will be passed along... > more in News
Intel, Web 2.0 Firms Build Collaboration Tool
InformationWeek
April 17, 2007
by Michael Singer
NewsGator, SimpleFeed, Six Apart, Socialtext, SpikeSource, and Visible Path are introducing SuiteTwo, powered by Intel this week to coincide with the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. > more in News
Visible Path Is A Lot Like LinkedIn, Except It’s Useful
TechCrunch
April 13, 2007
by Nick Gonzalez
Silicon Valley-based VisiblePath is a lot like LinkedIn, but it automatically determines who your real network is, and how strong each individual relationship is, based on your emails and calendar items that involve them. VisiblePath will officially launch next week at the Web 2.0 Expo. > more
The Economist
April 04, 2007
Social networking has proved to be of greatest value to companies in recruitment. Unlike a simple jobs board, social networks enable members to pass suitable vacancies on to people they know, and to refer potential candidates back to the recruiter. So employers reach not only active jobseekers but also a much larger pool of passive candidates through referrals. > more in News
Cybernetworking: Making the digital connection
The Globe and Mail
March 22, 2007
by Grant Buckler
"The fundamental concept is that the network is part of your net worth," says Antony Brydon, CEO of Visible Path Inc., a Foster City, Calif., startup whose online service helps members find connections between themselves and people they want to contact. "Regardless of whether you find the relationship online or offline, it's going to have the same bottom-line impact on the deal," Mr. Brydon says. "However, what these tools do is greatly increase the chances that you find that relationship." > more in News
Is the Enterprise Ready for its own MySpace?
Datamation
January 25, 2007
by Jeff Vance
Quantifying how a relationship benefits the bottom line, though, is at least as tricky as mapping it. “Think of it this way,” Brydon said, “if your network of relationships can be used to hire someone, find information more efficiently, or cut a sales cycle in half, then you’ve achieved something more concrete than ‘collaboration.’” Brydon pointed to research from the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina that showed that a sales person is sixteen times more likely to land a meeting if it is arranged through a common contact. Similarly, a company recruiting a potential employee is ten times more likely to land that person if a common party helps facilitate the effort. > more in News
The People You Know: Social Networks and
Tomorrow's Sales Force
Miller Heiman Sales Performance Journal
January 11, 2007
by Stephanie Molnar
"Visible Path helps find the best path, the strongest relationship with the most prominent people. Think analogous to Google. You type in a keyword; you used to get any old webpage. Now you get the most relevant ones first," said Antony Brydon, CEO, Visible Path. "Visible Path uses a similar technique. It looks at emails, Vcard storage, meeting patterns [It has privacy standards built in.] --and determines where the most relevance lies and gives you your best choice." > more in News
Insight Out: Hoover's Connect Uses Social Media to Build Networks from Trusted Sources
Shore Communications
November 07, 2006
by John Blossom
While integrated applications such as Hoover's Connect are hardly headline news, their use in a business intelligence portal for social networking content puts a unique new twist on how business information platforms can serve as points of workflow integration. > more
Hoover's Integrates Advanced Social Networking from VisiblePath
Outsell Now
November 03, 2006
by Chuck Richard
Hoover's Connect is a free service that integrates the widely-used Hoover's company and executive information service and Visible Path's networking service. The breakthrough here is the deep integration of a previously standalone social networking application into the Hoover's service, eliminating the need for Hoover's users to exit the service in order to find or cut and paste information from the Visible Path social networking tool. > more
When Outside the Loop, a Quicker Way to Get in
New York Times
October 30, 2006
by Bob Tedeschi
"That's the key way business networks differ from other social networks," said Antony Brydon, Visible Path's chief executive. "These relationships are very high value, and they need to be controlled." > more in News
Red Herring
October 16, 2006
Many ex-Oracle executives have started or joined startups, lured by more control and equity stakes. For Paul Emery, vice president of engineering at social networking site Visible Path, it was the opportunity to directly influence a company's future that lured him to the startup from his previous job as vice president of server technologies at Oracle. "No matter how successful my project was at Oracle it had a small impact on the stock price," says Mr. Emery, who spent less than a year at Oracle before joining Visible Path last April. > more
San Jose Mercury News
October 09, 2006
by Ryan Blitstein
Social networking, was until recently confined mostly to youth-targeted sites such as MySpace, where people create online profiles and form virtual links to their friends' profiles. For years, Visible Path...offered similar services that allow workers to manage relationships with colleagues and clients, but only in the past year or so have large corporations begun to buy in. "In the same way consumer social networks have become an embedded part of the consumer Web, business social networks are starting to become an embedded part of the enterprise," said Antony Brydon, chief executive of Visible Path, which grew from five new customers each month last year to hundreds during September. > more
What You Need to Know to Sell Software to SMBs
Selling Power
September 26, 2006
It's no secret that the big growth market for software sales is supposed to be in the small- and medium-businesses (SMB) segment. Selling into the segment is challenging, though, because the revenue from an SMB opportunity is likely to be much smaller than a large enterprise sale, but cost your company the same or more. The big software vendors have been struggling with this fact for about a decade, and still havent come up with much of a solution, which is why theres still opportunity in this area.... Cold calling doesn't work. Visible Path helps you build your relationship network and find strong referral paths into the decision-makers you want to pitch to. > more
Could Social Networks Succeed in the Enterprise?
Network Computing
September 21, 2006
by Robert Hertzberg
"Visible Path CEO Antony Brydon says he has avoided 'walking in and telling the CIO what a great thing we've got.' Instead, he offers a free version of Visible Path, then tries to persuade the company to upgrade to the feature-rich enterprise edition." > more
Destination CRM
September 21, 2006
by Coreen Bailor
Visible Path "allows you to do some homework ahead of time," says Jim Dickie, partner with CSO Insights. "It's not just finding the right person to call, it's also finding the people around that person that you could get information from before you initiate the call." > more
Forbes
August 20, 2006
by Rachel Rosmarin
"The current generation of startups is focused on fundamentals," says Visible Path Chief Executive Antony Brydon. "They don't have huge sales and marketing budgets, and they don't throw huge launch parties. We favor casual over cush." > more
Contact Management: MySpace for Law Firms?
Law.com
June 13, 2006
by Ari Kaplan
"What's really neat about the product is that it measures the strength of a relationship by tracking recent correspondence," says Jeffrey M. Capaccio, a partner with Carr ∓ Ferrell. Capaccio. After successfully using it in his practice, Capaccio introduced Visible Path to the Silicon Valley Italian Executive Council, a group he founded comprised of 350 top Italian and Italian American executives and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. > more
Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning
BusinessWeek
June 05, 2006
by Robert Hof
"Other firms are using button-down social-networking services such as Visible Path to dig up sales leads and hiring prospects from the collective contacts of colleagues." > more