A few months ago, we posted on our Facebook page about our CEO Linda Rebrovick being honored by being named to CABLE’s 2010 Board Walk of Fame. We were pleasantly surprised to see Linda featured in comprehensive coverage of the issue of women on corporate board’s in the July/August edition of Nashville Post.

Our CEO, Linda Rebrovick, recently sat down with Erin Lawley of the well-regarded NashvillePost.com for an interview. Erin summarized the function of our Foresight platform nicely but also got Linda talking about our important role in the Nashville technology corridor.

Foresight, our enterprise prediction market platform, is a product under constant and steady development, based in large part on customer input and feedback. Between major releases, we frequently provide feature releases to get new developments and requests in the hands of our customers as soon as possible. We’re pleased to announce our June 2010 release of Foresight.

This year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference was full of new product announcements and represented continued evolution in the value of Enterprise 2.0 solutions to businesses. The most striking realization for us was the increasing focus on Enterprise 2.0 solutions from players of all sizes, including companies as large as Cisco and CSC.

At this year’s Collective Intelligence Summit in Seattle, Christel Alvarez, our lead Account Executive, will be representing us to discuss prediction markets in the enterprise. Those who attend can expect to hear her discuss strategies for making prediction markets successful in enterprise applications through the rule of three: a combination of consultant, customer, and Foresight.

We recently created a partnership with Brightidea, the global leader in on-demand innovation management, to integrate WebStorm as a social front end to the Foresight platform. In combination with Brightidea’s Switchboard for idea and investment evaluation, this partnership offers a complete end-to-end crowdsourcing solution.

Logica FutureScope is the name of the Logica prediction market to guide the provocative and insightful observations regarding the ecosystem in order to enhance business growth and productivity. The predictions are focused around sustainability, future IT and cloud services, and security. You are invited to join us to offer your thoughts at www.logicafuturescope.com

Last week, we attended the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston. We went in part because the agenda looked interesting but also because we were pleased and proud to see two of our customers—Tina Brown-Stevenson of Ingenix and Rami Levy of Motorola—as presenters/panelists. Unfortunately for us, their sessions were scheduled at the same time…

We’ve been corresponding with Per Mengshoel, the Head of Technology Groups at BEKK Consulting, who is pursuing an MBA at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. For his thesis project, he has been comparing information gathering via a prediction market with BEKK’s existing process for predicting technology trends in the Norwegian market. Specifically, he’s looking at the use of prediction market tools as an alternative to existing decision making processes (typically expert-based or based on input from a small number of people) in a small- to medium-sized business. In addition to looking at the decision making process, Mengshoel is studying how use of prediction markets affects employee involvement.

Deloitte, a global leader in financial advisory and risk management services, has a variety of resources for global executives, including a publication called CFO Insights. They recently published an article entitled, “Social analytics: Tapping prediction markets for foresight.” It’s an elegant summary of how a Chief Financial Officer can leverage prediction markets in the enterprise to gain foresight.