Xeesm™ is a social business application platform helping business teams in all departments to build a better customer experience.

Commenting on the new partnership, WOM principal Des Walsh said:

“Once we saw what is happening with the Xeesm™ platform, it took us a very short time, actually about 24 hours, to decide that we wanted our company to be part of that. Our specialty at Webarts Online Marketing is in helping businesses navigate the new territory of social business:this platform is very much about navigating more expertly, in a more fully manageable and accountable way. It’s a perfect fit.

“With businesses being told they need to invest dollars and people time in this space, they want to know how that is going to fit into a cohesive, accountable business strategy. The applications being released on the Xeesm™ platform allow us to answer that question with practical tools as well as strategies. And it’s so appealing that you can look at any area of the business and see ways in which Xeesm™ can support that and help add value.

“I also love the fact that Xeesm™ comes with a team and an international one at that. No one person has all the answers in this space, so knowing there is a global team of partners, as well as the core group in the US, is very empowering.”

Xeequa CEO Axel Schultze said “Since the launch of our Social Relationship Manager, Xeesm™, in summer 2009, we have rapidly grown our user base worldwide.”

He said the decision to build a partner channel was based on three objectives:

• To provide localized support wherever our users are located
• To be able to scale at the speed of social media growth
• To use the most cost-efficient sales model.

Our partnership with Xeesm is not just for Australian business or even just for the region, but we are especially keen to tell the Xeesm story in our part of the world.

If you would like to know more about Xeesm and how the Xeesm range of products might help your company, please call Des Walsh on (in Australia) 0413 089 355 or (internationally) 61 413 089 355. Or get in touch via the Contact page here.

Update April 21, 2009. If you are interested in how to do an RSS feed for a specific category, it’s really simple – just that I had to chase a few Google rabbits down burrows and install and then uninstall a plugin that did not actually do what I wanted,  before I found a simple, clear explanation-  in a blog post (of course!).

For most blogs, the main RSS feed will take on this format:
http://www.example.com/feed/

If you want to view the RSS feed for only a single category, visit the page for that category and add “/feed/” to the end of it. For example, the feed to the WordPress category on this blog is:
http://blog.bluefur.com/category/wordpress-wednesdays/feed/

My need was to be able to provide an RSS feed for just the new Roadmapping newsletter which will be posted on and archived at the new Roadmapping site I’ve just established.

Following the instructions above, I was able to make a category feed as follows:

http://www.roadmapping.net/category/newsletter/feed/

My understanding is that it is important to close the link with the final forward slash. There is a technical explanation but even if I understood it at the time I’ve forgotten it.

Main thing is, it works. Tested it in my BlogBridge reader and it delivered a test post without a hitch.

The purpose in making a category-specific RSS feed available is quite simply that it means the reader who is only interested in one category of post (in the case of Roadmapping, that would be  getting that newsletter) doesn’t have to put up with messages on other items.

This has been a special week for our company, with ITBrix/ WordFrame announcing, via PRWeb, our appointment as solution providers for WordFrame – with a special emphasis on our Asia Pacific region.

This post is along the lines of a social media release, drawing on the template released a couple of years ago by Todd Defren, although it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles the template suggests. Copying of the content of this post is encouraged .

Update of March 28, 08) thanks to Duncan Riley for pointing out that an intro would help!)

Summary:The Webarts Company Pty Ltd (Webarts) has been appointed by Colorado based ITBrix/Wordframe as their partner for China, South East Asia and Australasia. There has been a steady increase in enquiries and interest in the WordFrame platform globally, so ITBrix needed to provide a local marketing and support presence. The Webarts Company was selected because of our expertise in the enterprise social media space, coupled with our broad industry knowledge and depth of experience.

Current product, WordFrame Community 1.0, provides:

• an out-of-the-box solution that allows teams to create Web communities for information sharing and document collaboration, benefits that help increase individual and team productivity
• is based on Microsoft asp.net 2.0 Framework
• includes IT resources such as community workspaces, blogs, user profiles, e-mail, document management, wiki, audio and video publishing, all secure and easily managed via a feature-rich administration shell
• enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently, as well as connect to and work with others more productively.

Contacts:

Webarts CEO Des Walsh, Gold Coast, Australia
Phone Australia: +1 7 5536 5658
Skype: deswalsh
email: wordframe@gmail.com
Twitter: deswalsh
web: www.webarts.net.au

WordFrame CEO George Athannassov, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone USA: +1 719 332 5062
web: www.wordframe.com

Key Points of partnership announcement:

• The Webarts Company (Webarts), Gold Coast, Australia, appointed by ITBrix LLC, with HQ in Colorado Springs, as partner for China, South East Asia and Australasia
• Increase in enquiries and interest in the WordFrame platform globally
• Webarts CEO is Des Walsh, social media consultant, business coach, author and international speaker
• Walsh is also Asia Pacific consultant to Guangzhou, China group Culture Fish Media, specialists in cultural SEO

del.icio.us site for this release
rss feed for del.icio.us page

Quotes

Des Walsh, Webarts CEO quotes:

“I had direct experience of using the platform through being a member of the Social Media Collective blogging group, which uses WordFrame to drive its aggregation.”

“WordFrame is a really neat collaboration solution, covering blogs, wikis, social networking, group messaging, document management, and RSS feed aggregation. It is also highly scalable, so it is a very effective solution for a wide range of companies and organizations. Its range of functions, combined with it being developed using Microsoft standard technology makes it very attractive as a corporate solution.”

George Athannassov, ITBrix CEO quote:

“We are delighted to be teaming up with Webarts and Des. His company can help us increase our sales and support coverage in the Far East and Australasia, and provide our customers with the consulting support we need. His consulting background, and knowledge of the enterprise 2.0 marketplace will be an asset to the team.”

Links

PRWeb:
ITBrix / WordFrame Appoints Collaboration Solutions Providers The Webarts Company as China, South East Asia and Australasia
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb777494.htm

RSS for ITBrix/WordFrame release

WordFrame Press Releases: http://wordframe.com/about/pressreleases/

The Webarts Company site: http://www.webarts.net.au

ITBrix/Wordframe site: http://www.wordframe.com

More if needed on Des Walsh

Walsh has 20 years of experience in business communications, corporate training and executive coaching, including a strong focus on web-based initiatives and, more recently, social media solutions. He has provided strategic advice and consulting in the corporate, government and university enterprise sectors. Prior to establishing his own company, Des was a senior government executive with development and management responsibilities for multi-million dollar federal and state programs.

And see LinkedIn profile

For company, association, or government agency enquiries, please use the Contact form, or the email address wordframe@gmail.com (email to this address goes directly to Des Walsh and all business enquiries will be treated in confidence), or call on one of the numbers listed above.

There is a registration form on the WordFrame site.

There are three options, identified as “Australasia, Europe and North America”. This is for your relative time convenience. You can sign up for any of the demo sessions, wherever you are. GMT is indicated for each.

To get the relevant time in your part of the world, I recommend the Time and Date site, especially using its Meeting Planner option.

Please contact us if you have any difficulty with the registration form or logging in to the demo.

Slight problem: till now, the scheduled demonstrations have been at a time that works well for the USA and Canada, but not so well for the Asia Pacific region.

When I raised this with CEO George Athannassov, he responded in his usual can-do style and now, a few days later, we have a schedule of demos to accommodate a wider range of time zones.

The new schedule is set out on the WordFrame Blog in the post Official WordFrame Community Platform Demos Schedule.

There are now three sessions scheduled for each week, designed to accommodate people/companies in:

• USA and Canada
• Northern Europe
• Asia and Australasia

Here at The Webarts Company in particular, we’re hoping the new Asia-focused demo session scheduled for people in China, South East Asia and Australasia will work well. The time will be 9 am on Fridays in Beijing and other centres on the same time zone, e.g. Singapore, Manila.

In Australia it will be at 12 noon Sydney time on Friday for the next couple of weeks until the changeover from Eastern Summer (Daylight Saving) Time to Eastern Standard Time, on Sunday April 6, after which date it will be at 11 am on Fridays.

As the post on the WordFrame blog asks:

Please take a look what suits you best and write a small note to sales@wordframe.com or go to http://demo.wordframe.com and signup for the demos by leaving your name and e-mail as a commentary on the Post regarding the demos on the home page there.

If you are interested in having a demo and none of the times in the schedule work for you, please contact us and let us know what would work for you.

So this is a new look for this site.

Earlier efforts, whether our own overly ambitious efforts to be own coders and designers, or contracted out to specialist web designers, took weeks to get up to speed.

A beautiful thing about the new social media is that we can decide on a Friday night that it is time for a new look and fresh functionality and have that accomplished before the weekend is over. Another is that we can add and modify elements as we go.

We won’t guarantee we’ll stick with this WordPress theme – Structure, by Justin Tadlock – excellent as it seems to be, but we believe it will get us off on the right foot. One advantage is that there are Chinese and Japanese versions, which suits our needs for our interaction with markets in the Asia Pacific region. Korean would be good too, but we don’t have that yet.

All suggestions for improvements will be gratefully received. 

And if you are wondering who “we” are, check the little screed on our About page for a succinct statement of what the company does and who our team and main strategic partners are.