FuseTalk is delighted to showcase Illinois Legal Aid Online, a unique and unprecedented state-wide collaboration of legal services providers, funding entities, law schools and the private bar.  Illinois Legal Aid Online’s mission is to increase access to justice for lower-income and vulnerable Illinois residents through the innovative use of technology.  For many years, ILAO has offered community members an avenue to have secured discussion, which is critical to their business.  Its success is demonstrated by the growth within each of the forum communities.  To learn more, please read the full story here.

FuseTalk^TM gains important patent rights for online forums, blogs and wikis, business improvement and business intelligence software. The license patents are highly complementary to FuseTalk's existing intellectual property assets.

Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) February 10, 2010 -- FuseTalk Inc. announced today that it has signed a new software patent license agreement with Cerinet Inc. Under the agreement, FuseTalk receives a lives-of-patents license under certain patents and applications for fields of use relevant and exclusive to FuseTalk's current and planned products. The effective date of the agreement is December 30, 2009. All other terms of the agreement are confidential.

"We are glad to enter into this exclusive agreement for our fields of use. Cerinet's patent portfolio is impressive. It provides FuseTalk with important IP rights - from freedom to operate to exclusivity within its domain in the respective patent geographies," said Greg Waite, President and CEO of FuseTalk Inc. "The agreement is important for FuseTalk customers and partners, current and future, and opens a licensing program to relevant vendors who want to respect patent rights and insulate themselves and their customers from infringement risks," added Waite.

"FuseTalk is a leading vendor of discussion forum software including blogs and wikis, with collaborative business intelligence and improvement software capabilities," said Fred DuFresne, President of Cerinet Inc. "Cerinet is proud to license our patents to FuseTalk and provide them with the full benefit of exclusive patent rights in their domain."

About FuseTalk

FuseTalk^TM Inc. is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools, wikis and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and .NET platforms, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use friendly user interface. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums - all with different access rights and users. FuseDiligence leverages all of the capabilities of FuseTalk and provides powerful, patent and patent pending traits that make FuseDiligence "business essential" Collaborative Business Improvement Software^TM. Coupled with content, FuseDiligence can greatly assist subject matter specific managers, consultants and channel partners realize huge benefits in terms of time, money and effectiveness.

About Cerinet

The Cerinet patent portfolio focuses on Internet based client server computing development and deployment. The company actively pursues the acquisition, licensing and enforcement of its intellectual properties. Cerinet has years of intellectual property litigation and litigation support experience, and has successfully negotiated licensing agreements for its properties with corporations of all sizes. To date, every patent action, including protracted litigation against Microsoft Corporation, has been settled on satisfactory terms. This experience enables Cerinet to understand the value of intellectual property in the context of constantly evolving legal and business environments, and to assist patent owners of all sizes and backgrounds to maximize their worth. Our services include patent portfolio management, individual patent valuation, expert testimony and report development, and litigation strategy assistance.

- a patent-pending, collaborative, green software approach to high ROI green business opportunities.

FuseDiligence morphs itself into best-of-breed environmental software through the marriage of content and collaborative business improvement software. Managers, consultants, stewards and environmentalists alike can leverage the green company revolution in very practical and productive ways. From environmental assessment and environmental checklists to employee change in behaviour surveys, FuseDiligence for the Environment gets the most green out of green.

Ottawa, ON (Vocus/PRWEB) January 11, 2010 -- For green companies, green consultants, and green organizations, there is no better solution than FuseDiligence to support your eco-business agenda. Offered in a hosted, licensed or channel partner solution, FuseDiligence provides the best of all worlds with starting point environmental assessment and review content supported by simple and productive community collaboration tools.

"Companies going green recognize that there are terrific economic benefits, but the vast majority of well- intentioned eco-friendly companies find it difficult to get started and to get employees and contractors participating and collaborating on this business improvement process," says Greg Waite. "So we deliver the whole works. Just add users and go; best-of-breed environmental software with starting point content and state of the art software. A no-barriers environmental solution was required, and we've produced that."

FuseDiligence for the Environment provides multiple points of improvement. From management to rank and file individuals and environmental committees, they are all empowered to participate in environmental assessment, eco discussion and decision-making.

Corporate managers can accelerate their environmental agendas painlessly. Consultants can find new revenue enhancing ways to mentor, manage and measure through a high efficiency environmental platform. Environmental organizations can leverage their communities and the relationship with their membership by offering effective and low cost, high ROI ways to become eco-friendly. Regardless of who you are, there is a green software approach to maximize the financial benefits of companies going green and optimize the intangible benefits of improving the company brand, attracting a growing pool of eco-conscious customers, and fostering a loyal corporate culture.

FuseTalk^TM Inc. is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools, wikis and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and .NET platforms, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use friendly user interface. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums - all with different access rights and users. FuseDiligence leverages all of the capabilities of FuseTalk and provides powerful, patent pending traits that make FuseDiligence "business essential" Collaborative Business Improvement Software^TM. Coupled with content, FuseDiligence can greatly assist subject matter specific managers, consultants and channel partners realize huge benefits in terms of time, money and effectiveness.

FuseTalk is delighted to include CORE Education and Consulting Services (CORE ECS), providing services to education institutions, among its client roster.  Since 2003, CORE has emerged as an integrated education company that focuses on providing technology-enabled education solutions to government bodies, schools, and students.  CORE ECS has chosen FuseTalk to integrate into their edMastery application, which is used by kindergarten to grade twelve (K-12) educational institutions.  To learn more about CORE ECS, visit http://www.coreecs.com/.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that Study Island has launched its Island Community powered by FuseTalk.  Study Island is a leading provider of web-based state assessment preparation programs and standards-based learning programs.  Designed to offer a very user-friendly experience for both students and educators, it is used by millions of students in thousands of schools across the United States.  To learn more about their program, visit http://www.studyisland.com.  To visit their community, go to http://forums.studyisland.com.

Customer service and support has long been the pinnacle of corporate excellence. In turbulent times, with global competition and even more demanding customers, companies need to re-think how they can provide a more efficient and more compelling customer acquisition and retention program. The answer is FuseTalk.

Ottawa, ON (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 10, 2009 -- The recently celebrated Customer Service Week served to focus the attention of the business community on what's important - winning and retaining customers is best accomplished by offering continued excellence in customer support.

FuseTalk^TM Inc. recognizes that in a tough economy organizations need to step up their customer service programs. Superior customer service fosters customer loyalty, and companies with loyal customers are going to weather the economic downturn and thrive as the economy strengthens. Customer service representatives need the right tools to succeed.

"With customer service and support you want the efficiency of a publish once, please many approach. But when you go further and allow the community to shoulder and supplement some of the support then you are adding leverage on top of leverage," says Greg Waite, President of FuseTalk.

FuseTalk is a scalable service software platform on its own or integrated with other customer service tools. A growing number of FuseTalk clients implement discussion forums to augment tech support software. They cite customer feedback as integral to the process of relationship management, and recognize that providing consumers an arena within which to share their experiences benefits customer and service provider equally.

FuseTalk is more than forum support software. It is used to publish FAQs and product information; it is the go-to source for warranty and policy details; it is a portal for safe and secure communication with internal customers and channel partners. With an intuitive user interface, it puts a human face on organizations committed to building customer loyalty. Used inter-departmentally, it recognizes the important role of support staff and encourages team spirit. In short, it's an environmentally friendly "customer service desk", a self-service environment which easily integrates with other software, and reduces bureaucracy and complexity.

FuseTalk^TM Inc. is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools, wikis and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and .NET platforms, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use friendly user interface. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums - all with different access rights and users. FuseDiligence leverages all of the capabilities of FuseTalk and provides powerful, patent pending traits that make FuseDiligence "business essential" Collaborative Business Improvement Software^TM.

FuseTalk's FuseDiligence™ Provides State of the Art, Patent Pending Collaborative Business Improvement Software™

Across all lines of business, all managers, all employees, all customers, all of the supply chain - businesses are leaking. Single user, silo techniques don't work very well in a competitive world where people and organizations have to do more with less just to stay the same. What can be done to stop losing precious know-how every day? The answer is FuseDiligence.

Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) October 21, 2009 -- FuseTalk Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-grade online discussion forum software, announced the official release of FuseDiligence™. This patent pending, intuitive Collaborative Business Improvement Software™ allows managers and consultants to do more with less and harness the power of group and corporate community awareness and involvement.

Like a corporate community Swiss army knife, FuseDiligence provides business improvement, due diligence benchmarking and assessment, decision making improvement, and planning and analysis. In the important areas of opportunity and risks, organizations can assess and develop improvement plans based on a systematic approach.

Unlike silo and conventional techniques such as email, thin agendas and less than action-oriented meetings, FuseDiligence provides productivity and efficiency by capturing and reusing operating, tactical and strategic business processes. Whether the goal is to automate and streamline your hiring process, perform competitive assessments, evaluate management performance, review market opportunities, or discuss the merits of new products and services, FuseDiligence can dramatically leverage the undertaking. FuseDiligence can help realize continuous improvement in any facet of your business - HR, IT, Marketing, R&D, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Finance & Administration, Health and Safety, or the Environment.

FuseDiligence is based on the FuseTalk platform and demonstrates the scalability, flexibility and configurability of FuseTalk. The "leaky business" metaphor is one that most managers and consultants can relate to and it's a pinnacle problem that FuseDiligence uniquely addresses.

"On this next wave of corporate productivity we need to reach new levels of efficiency in how we capture and use knowledge and expertise," says Greg Waite, President of FuseTalk Inc. "The amount of know-how that is generated, only to be lost and generated again is mind boggling. What good is a budget without corporate discussion and vetting? What good is a health and safety program that cannot evolve through employee and manager participation? How can hiring decisions be based on subjective consideration and manual or inefficient techniques? What good are reports if we don't discuss how to repeat good results or redress shortcomings? We consistently fall back on the lowest common denominator when pressed to manage, decide, improve or plan. The common denominator is no longer acceptable in a fiercely competitive world. We can't have a business being built one brick at a time. We need teams, tools, templates, measurements. We need to reuse, recycle and improve."

Designed to fuse teams around integrated discussion, management plugins and mission critical data, FuseDiligence is intuitive, powerful and highly customizable.

FuseDiligence features include:

- a threaded discussion module for exchanging ideas by individuals and groups    
- a budget module for itemizing expenditures relevant to the assessment or improvement process
- an assessment module for establishing priorities and capturing benchmark details
- a score card module for analysis of comparables and continuous performance measurement; tabulating individual, team or group responses
- a tasks module for assigning responsibilities and managing performance timelines
- an ability to attach or link to documents and images related to the assessment
- re-usable model templates to leverage new or related applications
- a data partnering capability to easily import relevant data sources for continuous management, analysis and business decision making
- a multiple categorization capability for flexible and unrestricted organization

FuseTalk™ Inc. is the leading provider of discussion forums, blogging tools, wikis and collaboration solutions. Available in ColdFusion MX and .NET platforms, FuseTalk enables organizations to build an interactive community that can share knowledge, exchange information and views, and help solve problems. FuseTalk brings the power of discussion to your customers, partners, employees, and stakeholders through its fully-featured, secure and customizable web interface. Highly scalable and configurable, FuseTalk accommodates any number of users, and offers an easy-to-use friendly user interface. A single FuseTalk installation can run a thousand different forums - all with different access rights and users. FuseDiligence leverages all of the capabilities of FuseTalk and provides powerful, patent pending traits that make FuseDiligence "business essential" Collaborative Business Improvement Software™.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that Germania Insurance has chosen FuseTalk as its community solution.  Germania insurance offers a full range of insurance services – automobile, property, liability, and life insurance – that will meet your needs. By choosing FuseTalk, Germania is able to facilitate easier communication amongst its agents.

A cross site scripting vulnerability has been reported in the 3.2 .NET version of FuseTalk.

A malicious party may embed JavaScript code within a FuseTalk URL.  If a user of the site follows this link, the script code will be rendered, and execute. It may be possible to access sensitive data.

Please proceed to FuseTalk's Client Services Area to the "Security Patches / Hot Fixes" section on the left hand navigation, or visit our forum to download the hot fix.

On April 18th, more than 2,200 people walked down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol in the 3rd Annual Walk for Lupus Now® in Washington, D.C. to benefit the Lupus Foundation of America, Greater Washington Chapter (LFAGW).  The goal of this signature event was to raise funds in which to allow Lupus Foundation of America, Greater Washington Chapter to provide free education and outreach services to the more than 70,000 people living with lupus in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.

Lupus is a chronic, life-altering autoimmune disease that can cause damage to virtually any organ in the body including the brain, the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys. While there are more than 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with lupus, nine out of ten lupus patients are women and lupus is two to three times more prevalent among people of color.

The Walk has raised more than $187,000.  FuseTalk is pleased to have contributed to its success.  To learn more about the Lupus Foundation of America, Greater Washington Chapter (LFAGW), please visit their website.  To visit the general Lupus Foundation of America website, click here.  To participate in their community, please visit http://messageboards.lupus.org.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that Brigham Young University-Idaho has chosen FuseTalk as their preferred solution provider for their online community.  Brigham Young University-Idaho (BYU-Idaho) has broken new ground in higher education with unique academic offerings, creative calendaring, and programs focused on the development of students. BYU-Idaho is a teaching-focused institution where students learn by study and faith with the help of dedicated instructors.  Through FuseTalk, BYU-Idaho is able to enhance the quality of the education.

FuseTalk is delighted that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has chosen FuseTalk to power their online community.  The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health.  CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, and policy and health promotion to transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.  CAMH will be able to encourage collaborative knowledge-sharing amongst its members.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that CambridgeSoft Corporation has selected FuseTalk has their community solution provider.  CambridgeSoft is a leading supplier of discovery, collaboration, and knowledge enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries, as well as in higher education and in academic and government research.  With FuseTalk, Cambridge enables their clients to help each other, and share ideas and information.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce the addition of Duncan Enterprises as a FuseTalk client.  Duncan Enterprises is one of the largest ceramic arts, crafting adhesives and fashion art manufacturers in the world with its ongoing reputation for excellence in product development, quality, education and health & safety.  Using FuseTalk, Duncan’s creative members will be able to share ideas and exchange knowledge.

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Look no further - download your trial version of FuseTalk today!

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that Greenway Medical Technologies has chosen FuseTalk to host their secured community of staff and physicians.  Greenway, an industry-leading healthcare solutions provider, develops ambulatory solutions to improve the delivery of healthcare for the consumer, the provider and the payer.  More than 24,000 healthcare providers and professionals nationwide use Greenway's integrated EHR at the point-of-care to optimize clinical, financial and administrative processes.  With FuseTalk, Greenway is able to hold secure and confidential discussions with its members.

FuseTalk is delighted to include WIDE World, a professional development program for K-12 teachers and school leaders developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in the large roster of education groups already using FuseTalk.  The WIDE World mission is to collaborate with school systems to support and engage teachers as instructional leaders and mentors within their school or district through highly customized, interactive, online and in-person professional development experiences that both teach and model best practices. Over the past 10 years over 15000 school teachers and leaders from over 90 countries have participated in WIDE World professional development programs about Teaching and Leading for Understanding, Differentiating Instruction, Multiple Intelligences, Using Data to Inform Instruction, and Making Thinking Visible. By integrating FuseTalk into their application, WIDE World empowers its course participants with a tool to facilitate discussions more effectively and easily.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that betterMD.net has chosen FuseTalk to power its multiple communities.  betterMD.net connects healthcare professionals with their weight management patients. The betterMD.net program is designed for patients seeking substantial weight loss in the shortest amount of time possible by using betterMD.net's virtual clinical application tool (vCAT).  With FuseTalk, betterMD.net is able to integrate it into their system, and provide an effective communication medium for all parties.

FuseTalk is pleased to announce that the Society of Actuaries has chosen FuseTalk as the trusted solution provider for their organization.  The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is the largest professional organization dedicated to serving 20,000 actuarial members and the public in the United States and Canada. The SOA's vision is for actuaries to be the leading professionals in the measurement and management of financial risk.

We are pleased to announce that WebSite AS has selected FuseTalk over other applications for its robustness and extensibility.  WebSite AS is one of the pioneers in effective internet based business solutions in Norway.  WebSite AS delivers a range of business solutions to its customers to achieve more efficient business processes in a simple manner.  Through the integration of FuseTalk into its own CMS, WebSite AS can offer online communities to its various clients, each with their own branding.