JanRain is the driving force behind OpenID, operating myOpenID.com, the most popular independent site for establishing an OpenID, delivering the first comprehensive communications and reputation platform, Pibb, and developing the most widely deployed libraries & tools in the space.

Jive Software makes enterprise social software that unites employees and connects them with their customers and partners. Our market leading products, Clearspace and Clearspace Community, use a people-centric approach to facilitate conversations and solve the problems associated with legacy systems.

Jive Software exists for one important reason: it's much easier to find people, updates, and answers on the internet than it is inside a company.

Every day companies lose critical knowledge, ideas, and connections by not making it easy for people to get work done. Focused on this issue, Jive Software is delivering "social productivity" software that brings together employees, partners and customers into a unified collaboration system so they can create better products, faster processes and improved relationships. This vision is validated by over 2000 customers, including over 15% of the Fortune 500. For more information, visit Jive Software online at http://www.jivesoftware.com.

Music, food, art, architecture, hiking, biking, sports, festivals, local beer, wine and spirits—we are here to celebrate all that Portland has to offer!

Silicon Florist was started by Rick Turoczy as a side project (is there any other kind?) to help provide a repository for interesting technology news from Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding area.

You see, there’s a bunch of great stuff happening in Portland. A ton of great ideas. Some really exciting development. Some really cool projects.

And it may not be the type of stuff that gets coverage in TechCrunch or Mashable or ReadWriteWeb or eHub.

But, that doesn’t make it any less important.

OEN's Mission: Provide support activities and mentoring to the entrepreneurial community to foster business growth and employment opportunities in Oregon.

The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the climate for emerging, growth-oriented companies across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. OEN helps improve the flow of ideas, services, and capital to entrepreneurs and helps connect companies to expertise and other resources they need to grow their business. Together, our nearly 2,500 members strive to aid the growth and development of a healthy, diversified Oregon economy with a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders.

OEN was originally formed in 1991 as the Oregon Enterprise Forum, one of more than 20 worldwide chapters of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum. In 1997, the organization merged with the Oregon Young Entrepreneurs Association (OYEA) and formed the Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum, the largest entrepreneur assistance organization in the state of Oregon.

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pdxMindShare is a Portland, Oregon networking organization that specializes in connecting qualified professionals with interested companies through email job postings and a monthly networking event.

pdxMindshare's mission is twofold:

1. Help connect qualified professionals with companies in need.

2. Help employed professionals increase their value through pdxMindShare network connections.