Round up of this week’s news

We have had a busy week this week! Two trade shows, two announcements, and some great coverage. Here is a round up:

Announcements:

mindSHIFT and Parlano partner to address customer needs for federated group: This is an important relationship because it is a big step forward in our strategy for providing secure, federated connections between customers who want to share chat channels with each other. MindAlign 2007 makes this easy because of our use of Microsoft Live Communications Server but some of our customers do not want to manage federated connections to all of their customers and partners. mindSHIFT solve this issue with managed chat channels and compliance services.

Parlano announces new compliance and ethical walls capabilities for group chat at SIFMA Technology Conference: This announcement discusses some pretty substantial improvements we made in MindAlign 2007 with regard to integrating with leading compliance frameworks. It also discusses our new channel security approach.

Some coverage from this week:

Michael Sampson's writeup on The Instant Messaging 2.0 Panel (Nick Fera was a panelist)

Eric Mack's writeup on the Instant Messaging 2.0 session.

Alec Saunder's writeup on the Presence 2.0 session (Nick was a panelist)

Actually, Michael posted great write-ups on several sessions as did Eric Mack.

Also, Wall Street and Technology posted coverage of our announcements at SIFMA. I expect more coverage soon!

(P.S. Michael and Eric it was great to finally meet you both in person!!!)

Great new article on MindAlign in Financial Services

Windows in Financial Services published a great article on the use of persistent group chat (MindAlign) in financial services and quoted several of our customers. I won't bore you with extra commentary because the article is a great read on its own!

By the way, we will be in both Boston (Enterprise 2.0 Conference) and New York (SIFMA Technology and Management Conference) this week. Nick Fera is speaking at Enterprise 2.0 and Microsoft will be in our booth and having us at their big parties both nights. I get to be in both places at once!

We have two big announcements at the SIFMA show… to be posted later this week!