Posts Tagged ‘social business’

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 […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at his blog for this. IBM’s Connections products have supported widgets for a while.  IBM’s WebSphere Portal also has a widget portlet. That means you can write a widget that works on many platforms. I haven’t seen a lot of that until now.  Collaboration Factory has created several widgets that work […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at a Portal to a Portal Blog for this. Copy Search conversion tools to local nodes to enable full indexing of data. The Search conversion tools make it possible to index Files and Wiki attachments. However, the conversion tools are initially deployed on a network share so you must copy them to each […]

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 […]

First off, I’d like to shake the rust off of my keyboard and state that I’m extremely excited to be back in the blogosphere.  That goes for consulting in general, and working with Wisconsin clients in particular.  There’s just something about helping out friends, connections and worthy businesses in my home state that has always […]

That’s a lot of ‘ation’s in one title.  However that is the title of a post over at the gamification blog and they are referring to new features in Bunchball‘s Nitro v4.3 system.  Personalization is a key pillar of most portal systems, so this caught my eye.  How are personalization and gamification related? In this release […]

If you haven’t heard yet, IBM and Bunchball have gotten together to develop a gamification system for IBM Connections called Level Up. Gamification has been a hot topic and using it to encourage participation in you new social network deployments makes tremendous sense. To show how Level Up works with Connections, BunchBall put together the […]

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 […]

IBM Connections continues to be a hot topic with clients.  This past weekend IBM released the latest version of Connections – 3.0.1.1.  In this latest release, IBM has added support for Redhat EL 6.1, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 9, and Sametime 8.5.2.  There also lots of fixes included. In addition, IBM just uploaded a newer […]

Mark Fidelman of harmon.ie wrote an article for Forbes today outlining Microsoft’s current position, in which they are poised for a launch into social business tools and solutions for the enterprise. He argues that Microsoft, with their business technology foothold in the enterprise, is best positioned to become a primary leader in the social business […]

This afternoon Carol Rozwell presented a session titled The Social Scenario: Business gets Social.  In this session, she points out the drivers behind social media and described scenario planning as a tool to develop a social strategy. I thought her most interesting points were in  in how to go about setting your strategy for Social […]

Jane McGonigal was our keynote speaker this morning at Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaboration conference.  Dr. McGonigal recently wrote a book called “Reality is Broken” in which she discusses gaming and its impact on industry. I’ll admit upfront, I’m not much of an online gamer.  Occasionally I play games such as Angry Birds and others, […]