Posts Tagged ‘social business’

Wondering where Microsoft is headed with social business? Join us  for the webinar, “Forrester & Perficient on SharePoint as a Social Business Platform” on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at 1 p.m. CDT. Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and Rich Wood, Director, National SharePoint Practice at Perficient will take a […]

Dear NewsGator Collective, You and I had a great time together last year, and I really enjoyed the chance to learn so much about social business.  We’re sending a team to you again this week; they’ll spend some time in Denver, Colorado to get all hyped up about social business. Sadly, I have conflicts and […]

Office 365 has officially launched.  Make no mistake, this is a big deal for enterprise social.  Later this month, I’ll be doing a webinar around Microsoft’s direction in that space with Rob Koplowitz of Forrester Research (you can sign up here).  The latest reports published by Mr. Koplowitz and his team have taken a hard […]

The SharePoint 2013 Social Newsfeed is now available in Apple’s App Store. That’s right– you can access the social side of your SharePoint intranet on an iPad in a slick, easy-to-use way.  (Please excuse my low-resolution screen shots– there’s much better examples on the official iTunes page.) From a UI perspective, there is a lot […]

Do you have something going on in SharePoint that you want to tie into NewsGator activity feed? In some cases an event receiver is what you want. See my blog on custom NG activities if you want to use an event receiver. But there are cases where SharePoint shamelessly writes things to its databases and […]

The popularity of SharePoint in the enterprise is indisputable. In the last decade, it has grown from an intranet and basic collaboration application to having many different uses, including content management, business intelligence, workflow, portals, collaboration – you name it. Despite this popularity, up until now, it hasn’t exactly been known for its social computing […]

Companies have always collaborated internally on projects and issues. There is a long history of technology facilitating that collaboration. First there were face-to-face meetings, and then came conference calls with remote employees or partners. Soon instant messaging, videoconferencing and webinars became available.  Today, technology has expanded collaboration capabilities in ways unheard of just a few […]

As of version 2.6 you get an option in NewsGator to supply a custom style sheet. There’s one provided for a narrow activity feed (370px wide, to be precise).  However, that isn’t the narrowest it can be and if you want a really slim newsfeed, check this out… My approach is to reuse the narrow […]

IBM Connect 2013 wrapped up last week and overall it was a great conference.  Social Business is on the rise and many IBM products such as IBM Connections are at the heart of meeting social business needs of organizations around the world.  At the conference I presented a case study with Fluor Corporation on how […]

Read a great article this week by Mark Fidelman about the customer journey in the social world (infographic). As you all know, SOCIAL (internal business related social in particular) is one of the hottest topics in the CRM space and will be for all of 2013. With Microsoft’s purchase last year of Yammer, more and […]

Who doesn’t want to make work more fun? Whether it’s for your customers, your employees, or your partners, making their online interactions with your company more engaging, interesting, and rewarding, can pay huge dividends in revenue and retention. If you’re a Service Cloud customer – you now get the Chatter Answers product for free.  That’s great […]

Michael Porter (@porteronportal) and Saren Sakurai (@saren) of Perficient spoke at the last day of IBM Connect 2013.  The title of the talk is the Social CMO: Engaging the Consumer.  The goal of digital marketing is the right message to the right audience at the right time on the right device. 4 primary objectives of […]