Nate Riggs: Social Business Strategies; communication, social web strategies, & passion in Columbus, Ohio.

Are you are actively using Google Wave to collaborate with your friends?

At Social Business Strategies, Marie and I have been dabbling to make it work.  From the experience, we’ve come up with some of our own ideas on how to use Google Wave to your advantage.

It’s not hard to understand why using the web to facilitate small group collaboration is a good idea.  Wave seems to have captured the most buzz around online collaboration tools recently, thanks largely to Google’s wide spread domination of just about every aspect of the web.

While there are a ton of great features and benefits to Wave, most users will agree that the concept is far from being perfected.

The question is, who’s gutsy enough to step up and challenge the Goliath of the Interwebz?

Being gutsy is one of the reasons Tim Gasper, of Corkshare, impresses me.  Backed by Goldstein Caldwell & Associates, a firm dedicated to helping Northeast Ohio entrepreneurs get their start-up concepts off the ground, he and his partner, Jim England, are stepping up to the plate to challenge Google Wave with their own take on how social collaboration tools should work.

What is CorkShare?
Corkshare was an idea birthed during a car ride from Cleveland, Ohio to Columbus’s inaugural Startup Weekend in 2008.  Since then, these two entrepreneurs have been working to build their system and onboard users to what has the potential to be a more user-friendly interface, making sharing content and ideas online much easier.

In their own words:

“CorkShare is a way to visually share web content like notes, photos, videos, and more with small groups of friends or colleagues. Modeled after physical bulletin boards, users of CorkShare create virtual CorkBoards, post embeddable content from around the Internet, and discuss these objects in a fun and simple way.”

Skype Session
In today’s Skype Session with Tim, we discuss what’s developed with CorkShare over the past two years, and how they are planning to grow the business and make a move towards competing for market share.

If you can’t see the video, watch it on Social Business Strategies TV.

What do you think about CorkShare?

Columbus Startup Weekend 2010 is scheduled for April 23rd -25th and will be held at the killer facilities of TechColumbus.  If you have ideas and would like to play, register HERE while there are still spots available…

nateriggs

I advise mid-sized & large organizations on how to adopt and use social media to market through organizational culture and better serve their clients. I'm also a blended family dad who enjoys music, photography and distance racing. When I'm not writing here, you can find me writing over at the Content Marketing Institute. Like what you've read so far? Then why not subscribe HERE?

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