Jive released a browser extension today : “Jive Anywhere” (article via Techcrunch) also see “Jive Anywhere: socializing the web.”
In the print screen examples below you can see how the extension expands out from any browser tab to show the discussion and content in your community related to that page.
This print screen shows the expanded discussion thread taking place.
When it’s not required it can be easily tucked away onto the right hand scroll bar, like so.
I have to agree with other commentators like Alan Lepofsky who write :
“I don’t say this often, but Jive Anywhere has the potential to be one of those rare “game changing” technologies with respect to the way people work.”
In his article “Jives Latest Release Takes Integration To 11”
I think of this tool in the following way:
In the world of the hunter|gatherer, the foraging for knowledge by the information worker, this is now a must have tool! Jive Anywhere brings the community to bear and support that virtual roamer, and allow them to return the goods into the heart of community – the people and context that matter in an instant. At its best reducing the time to action and response, but in simple terms helping people stay in touch and up to date.
This pervasive availability of connectedness into your core community, to garner and share knowledge in this way is a real step change. Especially with the support of context “cartridges” for particular sites or service providers. (e.g. Salesforce.com)
I liken this to the evolution of browsers that brought social network connectivity into each tab, via the extension apps and underlying API integration of from the social network. Also this mimics the advantage that blackberry had when it brought email, voice and texting into a single mobile device. In some way Jive are jumping ahead of their competition with this browser extension release.
There are a couple of things I would like to see evolve in this extension:
- multi-community support – in the same way that some twitter extensions support multiple twitter, it would be useful to use the tools for different communities and contexts.
- better support of SSO | Identity federation – I don’t see it supporting common enterprise security configurations in its current state.
- mobile browser | app support – many people will browse the web on smart phones or tablets, and they will need this extension in those devices contexts as well.
Download and Install Jive Anywhere from >> here
What do you think? Have you tried this yet?
