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You meet people every single day. You make friends and network with peers who are smart, powerful and connected people.. AND who know more smart, powerful and connected people. Now imagine harnessing all of those networks and all of that information, being able to identify and focus on those relationships that help YOU and YOUR BUSINESS meet your goals in a simple and quick way.
That’s JUTE.
We help private, public, government and nonprofit organizations grow and become more efficient in a few simple steps. JUTE provides valuable information about your relationships and how to leverage them. We help you grow your business and meet your goals faster than anyone else.
Contact our team to learn more about relationship discovery and analysis services.
Learn about NEXUS, our discovery & analysis service.
Read a case study of NEXUS and NRM in action.
Use a guest account to try out our software platform, Jute NRM.
Or request a free, trial account to upload your private information to Jute NRM.
Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: slideshow | Tags: business network visualization, business processes, free consultation, jute nrm, Network Audit, professional network, professional network analysis, professional network visualization, social graph mapping, social network analysis, Social Network Visualization, Visualization Tools | Leave A Comment »
Social Network Analysis & Visualization for Non-profit Leaders
We held a free webinar for non-profits in Western North Carolina, which was well-attended. During that webinar, I explained a few things about trends in the non-profit industry, where technologies featuring social network analysis and social network visualization are being put to use by foundations and non-profits.
Using a combination of real and mocked up data, I then presented a few ways non-profits can use this type of technology–and Jute specifically–to save time and increase donation revenue.
You can watch the presentation in this video or flip through in the embedded in Google Doc below.
Social Network Analysis & Visualization for Non-Profit Leaders from S M on Vimeo.
Links slide from the presentation
Monitor Institute
http://www.monitorinstitute.com/
[link to powerpoint on Social Network Analysis]
Barr Foundation’s NET Gains Report & Other Analysis
http://www.barrfoundation.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=436179
http://www.barrfoundation.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=237492
Beth’s Blog
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/05/which-social-networking-analysis-term-best-describes-virgin-america.html
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/10/drawing-networks-on-napkins.html
Visual Complexity
http://www.visualcomplexity.com
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog | Tags: barr foundation, business network visualization, Data Visualization, non profit innovation, non profits, social graph mapping, social network analysis, Social Network Visualization | Leave A Comment »
Free webinar on social network visualization for non-profits
We’re proud to announce that we’ll be hosting a free 30-minute webinar for non-profit professionals (including “geeks” like IT managers).
The event will be held:
Wednesday November 11
1:00pm
Online (at your desk).
We’ll use screensharing / conference call info, which will be provided by email.
To register, RSVP by email.
What will we talk about?
One of the emerging technologies that is helping non-profits identify fundraising opportunities, manage executive transitions and communicate with funding partners is social network analysis (SNA). This technology goes hand-in-hand with social network visualization (SNV). These technologies require a lot of sophisticated work with data, some training on how to read the “maps,” and how to present findings to colleagues and partners.
This webinar will be a brief overview of how some non-profits are using SNA & SNV, and a quick demo of Jute NRM Prototype, which uses these two technologies as part of a consulting process.
Learn more ahead of time
If you’d like to learn more ahead of time, watch this video from TED Talker Manuel Lima, founder of www.visualcomplexity.com — a storehouse for hundreds of types of social network visualizations.
Nov 04, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Jute NRM | Tags: manuel limat, non profits, social network analysis, Social Network Visualization, webinar | 1 Comment »
OpenCalais: Opportunity to Visualize?
I just read about the OpenCalais project from Thomson Reuters. The company describes it as:
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.
What I interpret is that they are creating a hub for semantic data sources, so that all the formats and all the semantic options become increasingly accessible for developers. My hypothesis is that Thomson Reuters is aware that people will also want to buy data about the people, relationships and companies they access through OpenCalais and that they will be able to sell it to them.
There’s a couple intro videos–with especially well-done animations it’s worth mentioning–on their website. (Embedded below…)
There are two visualization projects in their community so far. One called Thinkpedia, using ThinkMap to visualize Wikipedia relationships and another called Wirecatch to visualize business relationships found in news stories.
Email me if you have any thoughts about how to put Calais to use.
Oct 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Data Visualization, Software Industry | Tags: business network visualization, opencalais, relationship visualization, social network analysis, Social Network Visualization, thinkmap, thinkpedia, thomson reuters, wirecatch | 3 Comments »
JUTE GROUPS Video & Features List
JUTE GROUPS is a collaboration and community management tool.
General Features
- Organizing small groups of people around “projects” or “working groups” (a.k.a. JUTE GROUPS)
- Tracking the “relationship index” between participants within the group
- Social network analysis to help individuals identify people within communities with whom they should connect, based on keywords and established relationships
- JUTE MINI-MAP integration that visualizes the growth of relationship strength inside of GROUPS
- Managing group and user permissions, as well as users’ accounts
- Archiving all group activities
- Searching within a group and across all active groups along with filtering and sorting tools
- Contact management (storing details on people) that allows both public profiles and personal notes for each contact
- Settings and preferences for whole system and individual GROUPS
- Granular archive / delete features for GROUPS, conversations, files, bookmarks & meetings
- Invitation management (choose whether a GROUP is open to the world, manager moderated or open to anyone invited in by an existing member)
Conversations
- Email integration (notifications, email relays, post-by-email)
- Rich text WYSIWYG editor interface
- Draft save / restore
- Preview before posting
- Archiving of all conversations
- Participant management (not all group members have to be included in every conversation)
- Attach files and bookmarks (which JUTE automatically identifies and indexes)
- Tagging of conversations
- Granular self-management subscribe / unsubscribe controls
Files
- Upload / download / share
- Version management
- Batch download / archive / delete
Bookmarks
- Auto-extract from conversations
Meetings
- Event editor
- Maps integration
- Topics / tagging of events
- RSVP Management
- Invitation distribution
Private Messaging
Send private message to one or more recipients
“Evolve” that message into a GROUP conversation if appropriate
Communities
- Member management (from 2 members to 5,000+ members)
- Community Conversation tool, similar to a message board
- Community event tool
- “People like me” analysis that utilizes individuals’ public profiles to make matches
- “People seeking people like me” that matches against keywords in specific fields (in this case, “seeking” and “offering”)
- Branding tools (add your own logo)
- Management and permissions controls (including who can post what, and moderation of comments)
Misc.
- Adober FLEX front-end with browser functionality integration (user forward and back buttons)
- Unique URL’s for conversations, groups, conversations, etc.
- Administrative management features for all user accounts
- Account and usage analyticsessa
- RESTful API
- Embed-able video player with chaptering feature
- Integrated bug tracking and ticket management
Sep 15, 2009 | Categories: Blog | Tags: archive, betweeness, bookmarks, centrality, collaboration software, events, file management, jute, jute communities, jute groups, likeness, meetings, messaging, mini-map, private messaging, relationship index, social network analysis | Leave A Comment »