Jive Launches The New Way Tour

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software today announced the 2011 New Way Tour, which builds on the success of the 2010 Get Social Tour. The New Way Tour is an eight-city seminar series designed to showcase the latest trends and best practices in Social Business. Business and technology leaders will have the opportunity to learn how Social Business is changing the way work gets done, and how Jive customers are using Social Business to transform their organizations. This year's customer speakers include: BUPA, CSC, Fidelity Investments, Premier Farnell, SAP, T-Mobile, and Yum! Brands. The tour will be hosted in Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Boston, New York, San Francisco, and London.

At Jive's Get Social Tour last year, over 1,000 attendees gathered to gain the insight needed to develop actionable steps towards a social business transformation. This year's Social Business seminar series will again consist of half-day events. These events are custom-designed with two track sessions to cover the needs of technology and line of business leaders. Both tracks will address real-world best practices for leveraging Social Business inside and outside organization to help with:

• Sales Enablement;
• Social Collaboration;
• Corporate Communications;
• Customer Support Communities; and
• Social Marketing.

Attendees will leave with unique insights and best practices on how to use Social Business to:

• Become a strategic part of their company;
• Increase brand awareness, advocates, and sales;
• Make critical improvements to the way they market to and support customers;
• Drive powerful social networks that can align teams with corporate strategy;
• Drive co-innovation from customers, partners, as well as colleagues and team members; and
• Drive connectedness and alignment with corporate strategy across the team and company.

"Social Business has fundamentally and permanently transformed the way millions of people engage, collaborate, and make decisions," said Tony Zingale, CEO of Jive Software. "Jive's customers are the leaders in deploying Social Business, and we are pleased to have them join us to share their experience, knowledge and insights."

Registration is complimentary, but space is limited. More information on The New Way Tour can be found online at: http://www.jivesoftware.com/newwaytour.

About Social Business

Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive's Social Business Software (SBS) combines the power of community software, collaboration software, social networking software, and social media monitoring offerings into an integrated platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage.

About Jive – The New Way to Business

Jive is the largest and fastest growing independent Social Business Software company in the world. Jive is backed by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. For more information, visit www.jivesoftware.com. 

SOURCE Jive Software