Last night’s new release is Xeesm 1.0
The latest and greatest from my team! Here is what’s up:
Apps World
The introduction of AppsWorld is the biggest change, even though most is in the “plumbing” of the system. AppsWorld is a new platform technology that was developed to add social business applications. Initially most apps will come from us. But we already added a VCF converter from Brotherly (A third party) to help upload data to Xeesm and we added XeeURL a URL shortener. FLIGHTS was rewritten and is now an APP on the platform which you can install or uninstall.
MyApps
Under MyApps you will find all the Apps you installed. The MyApps “Navlet”, the little navigation inlet on your right hand side, is always present when you work in an APP.
Subscriptions
First, our leadership team decided to always support a free version Xeesm. Nevertheless, to add more capabilities and functionality we will have to start charging. Check out the new Xeesm/BIZ Plan and what you get for only $10/month.
Status Info
You find your subscription level as well as your user level on the top left of the window, right next to your name. We will put up more details about levels on the blog any soon.
Xeesm Apps World is out
“Social Business” is going beyond connections and social chatter. In its next phase business leaders are ACTING on customer needs, market requirements, and opportunities. Xeesm Apps World is the application platform to do so.
We made again a major update on Xeesm last week. Thanks to many contributions in form of feature requests, change requests and bug reports we made some significant enhancements to Xeesm.
- Enhancements can be found in the standard Xeesm
- We made some major enhancements to PRO
- We started to add Xeesm/BIZ, the first paid subscription
- And we add the first corporate account option Xeesm/CORP
- We also added a Xeesm/Club for those who can’t afford a full subscription but want to recognize the value they see in Xeesm.
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Posted by Rob Stevenson in General
Saturday, 13 March 2010 13:57
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I guess we see already what many predicted: 2010 is the year social media is catapulting businesses into a new way of interacting with their respective markets. Xeesm users find constantly new ways of using the product and leveraging it for their respective businesses – as we see below in very different ways. We also get a lot of questions how it could be used in certain areas. As a result we want to share with you 24 Xeesm use cases in 8 categories including Sales, Marketing, Partner Collaboration, Product Management, Logistics & Supply Chain, HR and the executive bench
Indirect partner channels contribute over 65% of the overall business in the tech industry. Vertically or geographically focused integrator, reseller, consultants and other experts are the economic driver behind that industry.
If vendors want to have partners ’ship’ like this:

Than those partners need to have a bridge (vendor bridge) like that:

Align your organization to how your customers do business. Collaborate across company boundaries, integrate partners and redefine market leadership. Bring down the corporate silos and be approachable.
* Lead qualification is nonsense because there are not enough leads.
* Cold calling is less and less effective as nobody returns the call.
* You no longer see inquiries because prospects google their stuff.
* Email lands in spam filters and advertising is ignored
* Reference selling is old because clients find the real users of a product themselves in groups, online communities or blogs like this.
* Consultative selling is limited as you are no longer the most trusted person – nor is media or the “independent” analyst
* When a client comes to you – they know what they want and what price they are willing to pay.
While we made some major changes in the “plumbing” of the architecture, mainly on our genetic computing engine, we also added some neat features. Big thanks to Mark Kittleson, Jim Teeter, Pierre Miceli, Matt Ryan, Stephen Gear and others for providing cool feature requests and providing critical bug reports. Here are all the details: