Comments on: B2B Community Intelligence - GroupSwim

By: Jason Rothbart

Jason Rothbart — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:36:22 +0000

Hey Malcolm,

Good question. Our ranking is very different than most other products. We factor voting in like most other products. However, most people in businesses don’t vote, which we discovered very early on. So, we created algorithms to track user behavior that we combine with voting. For example, we track factors like what percentage of the group read a piece of content, how long they spent on the page, if they returned when it was updated, if they sent it to a colleague, or they monitored the content with their watchlist. We weight all these factors and create a score that ranks the content. Hope this helps. Thanks for the question and keep them coming.

By: Malcolm Kass

Malcolm Kass — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:50:43 +0000

From my previous post, I didn’t mean to derail groupswim, but there are numerous different products that have many of the same functionalities mentioned here. I am sure the product is a very fine product.

By: malcolmkass

malcolmkass — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:13:27 +0000

I would be curious about their ranking system. I suppose that others within the system vote for items that are the best answer and then going from there. Personally, I think there is a billion different new products out there at, not sure how differentated it is. For instance, cubeless does everything mentioned here, and coming from Sabre Holdings, probably has far more weight with other businesses regarding the quality of the software.

By: Effective Collaboration

Effective Collaboration — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:13:12 +0000

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GroupSwim is a provider of a hosted software solution for creating intelligent communities. The software provides a place for people to author content in community-centric discussion forums, and is a reaction to document-centric collaboration software….

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By: Mike Micucci

Mike Micucci — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:01:12 +0000

Sarah, thanks for the great write-up! You really did a good job capturing
the key points on GroupSwim.

I’m one of the GroupSwim founders and if anyone needs some additional
information feel free to contact me.

Sarah, thanks for such an informative blog.