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A case of connecting busy bees.(case study)

Publication: EContent
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Company: ONE ECONOMY

One Economy is a multi-national nonprofit organization that brings broadband to low-income homes and provides a multilingual web portal called The Beehive, which connects people with information and services ranging from education and health to employment. To date, 9...

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...more than million people have used The Beehive--20% of whom accessed the content in Spanish--and over 200,000 low-income homes have broadband through the work of One Economy. www.one-economy.com; www.thebeehive.org

BUSINESS CHALLANGE

One Economy's mission is to connect low-income individuals to the internet, but the nonprofit was faced with internal collaboration problems of its own. With 50 employees spread out across the United States and abroad, and satellite offices technically isolated from One Economy's D.C. headquarters, the organization needed an employee portal--and fast. The goal was to enable employees to share information resources more efficiently across One Economy's locations and to provide access from remote sites, like the housing projects where employees frequently work.

VENDOR OF CHOICE: JIVE SOFTWARE

Jive Software provides collaboration software to improve a company's productivity through open collaboration among employees, partners, and customers. Its Clearspace platform provides a unified view of blogs, wikis, and other social networking tools to enable real-time access to user-generated content, regardless of the application in which it was created.

www.jivesoftware.com

THE PROBLEM IN DEPTH

One Economy was founded in 2000 to maximize the potential of technology...

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