How Zonebee® was Spun Off From the University of Arizona

Giovanni Battistini, Zonebee®'s CEO, was interviewed by Take the Leap. Giovanni tells the story of how he and his partners spun out Zonebee®, a research tool that helps legal researchers explore their learning goal before jumping into a search, search content on the Web and beyond, focus on the websites they find, build artifacts that summarize what they’ve learned, and reflect on how they learned it by reviewing and sharing their trails.

Zonebee® Presented in Rome: Informal Learning and Cultural Institutions

Giovanni Battistini and Ray Garcia were invited to an international conference in Rome focused on the future of Cultural Institutions. Zonebee®, a breakthrough technology designed to support informal learning on the Web and in physical spaces, was presented at the conference and received considerable attention from the audience, interested in new models to drive innovation in cultural institutions such as museums.

http://www.bmatchingrome.com/pdf/CBMR_Battistini.pdf

Zonebee® LLC Released its Application for Knowledge Professionals to Conduct Business Research

Alliance Global Services has worked closely with Zonebee® as their implementation partner providing services concept design to product delivery.

(I-Newswire) December 21, 2009 - Zonebee LLC has released its application for knowledge professionals using Internet and Intranet resources to conduct business research. An OEM version is available for Information Content providers to distribute on a private label basis. Alliance Global Services has worked closely with Zonebee® as their implementation partner providing services from concept design to product delivery. Alliance is utilizing a hybrid agile development approach along with our technical experience to facilitate short, rapid iterations of functionality enabling Zonebee® to achieve critical time to market for its commercially available product.

Zonebee® CTO, Ray Garcia said "Alliance was the only partner we found that could work within our stringent requirements for speed, quality, and flexibility, while providing value".

The Zonebee® application is a unique knowledge management environment that allows businesses and individuals to personalize, contextualize and share knowledge as they conduct their daily online research activities. The technology was developed after years of multidisciplinary research and development conducted at the University of Arizona and is now being offered to specific industries - such as Legal and Healthcare - to increase efficiencies and improve knowledge management skills across entire organizations.

Giovanni Battistini, Zonebee®'s CEO, believes that "partnering with Alliance and adopting their proven Agile methodology has enabled Zonebee® to succeed in the difficult task of transforming academic research into real market innovation and enable knowledge professionals to finally go beyond Search."

About Alliance Global Services
Alliance Global Services is a software solutions firm that delivers across the complete software lifecycle from strategic guidance, application development, quality assurance & testing, through ongoing optimization and maintenance. Founded in 1994, Alliance has provided more than $1 billion in services since its inception while supporting hundreds of unique applications on a daily basis. Utilizing its unique RightLine methodology the firm has proven a unique ability to deliver technology initiatives that drive measurable business impact across clients and industries. Headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, Conshohocken, PA, the firm's worldwide offices include: Boston, Chicago, Bridgewater and Hyderabad, India.

Zonebee® at Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice Seminar

The Fall 2009 Seminar for the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice (AACJ) begins September 11 through September 13th, 2009, in Tuscon, Arizona. Learning Zonebee®, Karen Spear Ellinwood willl be conducting two presentations involving Zonebee® demonstrations and concerning the use of technology in the everyday practice of law.

For more information, please visit Karen's blog page. Hope to see you there soon!

Zonebee® August Release is Out!

Make sure you download the new, latest release of Zonebee®. New features include:

• Full support of Internet Explorer 8 and Vista
• Personalization: users can now configure their Search & bookmarking preferences, their literacy level, and their premium service. Once they do, the personal configuration will be available on any computer when they log in.
• Automatic updates. No more re-installing for a new version, no more email reminders. Zonebee® will manage that for you.
• Improved Explore: check out a better single-click way to select tags and a new tool to manage your queries
• Zonebee® Law (free beta, available on request). Zonebee® Law includes a comprehensive Law meta-search and the Law Buzz. If you are a legal professional, please contact us to start using Zonebee® Law.
• Try Assess and find out more about yourself and how you learn.
  

We look forward to getting your feedback on this new, much improved release of Zonebee® on our forum.

The Zonebee® Team