Posts Tagged ‘newsgator’

I’m going to be presenting a webinar on “Understanding SharePoint 2013 and the Social Landscape” on September 19. Anyone who has been following this blog, or enterprise social computing in general, already knows that this space and the outlook for it has changed drastically in just the last twelve months.  We’ve seen Microsoft go from […]

As a business technology leader, you’ve probably been scratching your head over how to use Twitter for quite some time now, and perhaps you’ve already taken the dive into it and launched a corporate-named profile, connected with some customers and fans and begun sharing relevant content. But if you’re expecting Twitter to become useful for […]

So we’ve looked at Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition from a holistic, Microsoft-centric viewpoint.  One hot question that we haven’t yet covered is what this means to on-premise SharePoint customers who may already have their own social solutions installed and running. Here’s a quick take of the two key points from my own perspective: 1. To the Cloud. One […]

Rich Wood blogs about the recent Yammer acquisition over on the Microsoft Blog.  I’ll let Rich tell his own story but here’s my two cents: Rich pegs it about the short term implications.  I don’t think we’ll see anything incorporated beyond any existing integration between Yammer and something like SharePoint This highlights the importance of […]

I was recently invited to guest blog on Microsoft’s partner site, DigitalWPC.com. I blogged on a topic I’m passionate about – Social Business Solution. You can read an excerpt from the post below. The full post is here. According to Knowledge Networks, 60% of people use social media to discover new brands or products, 46% […]

Rich Wood and I recently chatted about how Rich is able to use Microsoft technologies on his iPad.  In this video Rich shares how he uses Lync, SharePoint, NewsGator Social Sites, One Note, Bing and more on his iPad to allow him to use it as more than just a consumer or entertainment device.

So you’re using NewsGator Social Sites on your SharePoint intranet and you want to stay connected when you’re on the go?  Check out my new video blog on using the iPad app for NewsGator Social Sites.  As NewsGator’s inaugural Partner of the Year (2011), we just might know a little something about this. Oh, and […]

Over on our Microsoft Blog, Rich Wood has a post on Planning Communities in Newsgator Sites. I’ll pop in a teaser but Rich does dive deeper. In general though, his best practices are applicable across all social sites.  Social tools of all types need to focus on communities as a way to share the information […]

At Perficient, most of our customers are looking for a SharePoint interface that provides functionality familiar to users who live their lives on Facebook, LinkedIn, and the like.  While a number of independent software vendors offer these packages, we work very closely with NewsGator to deliver the feature set that our clients need. It’s not […]

Social Business is a hot topic currently.  Perficient’s Matt Morse and NewsGator’s Brian Kellner discuss how to “Improve Client Relationships by Making Your Extranet Social” during this one hour on-demand webinar showing customers how to get the most value out of their SharePoint investment.  The Perficient team was recently honored to receive NewsGator’s Partner of […]

Joann Pan of Mashable shared a great Infographic yesterday on the power of Content Marketing. In the accompanying piece Joann shares that “Content marketing was a top priority for businesses in 2011, and it is going to remain so in 2012. That’s according to a study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute, a marketing education […]

If you have NewsGator on your SharePoint site and want to refine the look or functionality of some items in the newsfeed, there is a good chance that you will be building a custom activity type. Here are a few examples of where custom activity types can help: ·items from a non-community list trigger posts […]