Yakabod in the News

February 2010 BeyeNETWORK
The Rule of 151: How to Move Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence from Margin to Mainstream
Impatient with modest traction in the public sector, knowledge management (KM) and business intelligence (BI) advocates say “better marketing and PR” are at the top of their wish lists. Ask any five government officials how they might benefit from these business tools, and you’ll get five different answers – or a blank stare.
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February 2010 Gazette.net
Frederick software company employee uses resources to help native Haiti
Rosemay Dyer, who once lived in Haiti, but now resides and works in Frederick, shows her Facebook page, which includes a photo of Shirley Rene Denize, a childhood friend who died during the recent earthquake in Haiti. Dyer and her co-workers at Yakabod, a software-building and technology company in downtown Frederick, are now trying to help victims of the earthquake.
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January 2010 Washington Business Journal Press Release
Beltway VIPs Break Through Collaboration Barriers
An unlikely mix of intelligence officers, Capitol Hill executives and students gets together 24/7 in a virtual community launched recently by the Delaney Center at Mount St. Mary's University. The invitation-only network links bioterrorism experts, bodyguards, aerospace engineers and academics - plus a variety of federal heavyweights who prefer to keep a low profile.
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October 2009 Gov 2.0 Radio Interview on BlogTalkRadio
Creating Collaboration in Secure Environments
Hosts Adriel Hampton and Steve Lunceford discuss enterprise knowledge management and Web 2.0 with Scott Ryser, CEO of Yakabod.
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August 2009 Basex Analyst Review
In the briefing room: Yakabod's Yakabox
Senior Analyst Cody Burke: “It is easy to lose sight of the fundamental question an organization should be asking when deploying a knowledge sharing and collaboration tool, that is: ‘how will this tool help my company get work done?’ This often happens because products and tools are segmented into arbitrary and confusing market segments .... A breath of fresh air in this space is Yakabod ...”
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August 2009 ebizQ Interview with Phil Wainewright
Users Not Sharing? Tighten Security!
Listen to my interview with Scott Ryser, CEO of Yakabod, whose collaborative knowledge-sharing system is used extensively within the US intelligence community. In this podcast, learn why implementing strong security to protect information is sometimes the key to getting people to start sharing it with others within their organization.
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July 2009 The AppGap
Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Best Practices from Yakabod
Yakabod has been providing knowledge management solutions since 2003, primarily for the US intelligence community to date. Their flagship product is the Yakabox Knowledge Network. I reviewed it on this blog earlier (see Yakabod Provides Robust Knowledge Management with a Social Side). Like a number of enterprise 2.0 providers, they realize that many of the issues for a successful adoption of their offering are not technical and they have broadened their offerings to include adoption support. I recently spoke with Yakabod CEO Scott Ryser and Ian Bramson, Director National Intelligence Engagements about their experiences helping clients with adoption issues and the services they provide for this effort.
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June 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Blog
Yakabod gets featured at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.- Alex Dunne
As per Dunne " On the Yakabod booth I met Scott Ryser, the CEO of the company. He told me about the Yakabox, which, unlike the most of the products I saw at E2, is a collaboration appliance. The Yakabox is a hardware-based “knowledge engine” that enables collaboration, social networking, content management and yes, search, within an organization. As an appliance, it has some tough security built in: encryption that passes Federal Information System data security standards, two-factor authentication, and a user permissioning system."
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June 2009 Bill Ives Blog
Yakabod Adds a Social Side to Knowledge Management
Yakabod CEO Scott Ryser Featured.
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June 2009 Tech Talk Radio Interview
Craig Peterson interviews Yakabod CEO- Scott Ryser
Are you tired of hunting for, waiting for, and re-creating the information you need to do your job? Well listen in to Scott Ryser the CEO at Yakabod who joins Craig to discuss how they have taken Knowledge Management to the next level with their Yakabox.
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June 2009 Exhibitors Make Major News at TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Yakabox ™ 3.1, knowledge-sharing software from Yakabod, will be introduced to the commercial market.
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March 2009 Fuelnet
How to build brand awareness
Yakabod Executive VP of Marketing- Chris Coleman Featured.
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February 2009 Frederick News-Post
Company Simplifies Life
Yakabod's principles: grace, excellence, passion, consistency, integrity
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November 2008 gazette.net
Yakabod Taps Intelligence Market
Software company develops information sharing network for agencies
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November 2008 bisnow.com
Last Night's National Security Panel
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November 2008 Beyond Search
Yakabod’s Knowledge Appliance
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October 2008 tmcnet.com
Yakabod Launches 3.0
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October 2008 prlog.org
Yakabod Expands Executive Team
Sales and marketing veterans to accelerate Yakabox™ Knowledge Network roll-out
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