Posts Tagged ‘social business’

On June 25, IBM announced the availability of version 1.0.3 of IBM SmartCloud Docs.  If you haven’t heard of IBM SmartCloud Docs, it is similar to Google Docs. You can store and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations right on line without having to have desktop software installed.  IBM allows you to edit both Microsoft Office […]

Great innovations often are molded and born in times of uncertainty.  As economies the world over adjust to new realities, there are opportunities for companies to lead and change the game. A recent article in Forbes details some ways to take the lead.  At the core of enabling this change are social capabilities and the […]

Yesterday, we hosted a SharePoint 2013 webinar that covered the new search and social features. Will Tseng, a senior technical consultant within Perficient’s SharePoint practice, and Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s national SharePoint practice, teamed up to talk about two of their favorite topics. In the first half of the webinar, Will discussed key components of designing […]

We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]

So what do you do if you are a vendor of social software running on SharePoint and Microsoft includes many of your capabilities in SharePoint 2013?  Well if you are NewsGator, you introduce a solution that leverages your expertise in social systems and delivers to a very important stakeholder of the corporate intranet. Essentially that […]

Today on Twitter @1PM Eastern, I’ll be part of the CMSWire expert panel engaging in a TweetJam on social business! In this discussion, titled “What’s Next for the Social Enterprise,” I’m joining a pretty distinguished set of panelists for an hour of yammering (ahem) around the future of social business tools and the enterprise social […]

Yesterday, CMSWire.com published an article written by my colleague, Rich Wood. In the essay, (R)Evolution: The Past, Present and Future of the Social Enterprise, Rich discusses how social collaboration tools represent not a revolution (yet), but an evolution of organizational communication. Rich begins by explaining: It’s been too easy to claim that introducing newsfeeds, microblogging, @targets and #tags to the […]

I presented at an eWeek sponsored event on social and social technologies in San Francisco.  Here’s the presentation.

It’s been a big month around here in a lot of ways. Most importantly, our team was recognized as Microsoft’s 2013 US Partner of the Year.  From a personal perspective, I’m really thrilled to be able to tell you that I’ve just had an essay published over at CMSWire. The topic is something that will […]

It is clear by now that SharePoint 2013 offers up some big changes, particularly around search and social functionality. For starters, Fast Search is now part of SharePoint in the new release. This means that SharePoint 2013 can easily index content from a wide variety of different sources. By taking the Fast solution and combining […]

No less than Bono once told a UK music monthly, “The blogosphere can put you off democracy. Use it sparingly.” Substitute “enterprise social networks” for “democracy” and you’ll find that statement to be a fairly accurate assessment of the way many companies view the concept of enterprise social, and within that, the subset that is […]

Here’s my last post as an easily consumable, annotated image.  Credit to Microsoft for the original graphic, of course.  (Click to view full-size.)