Posts Tagged ‘social business’

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 […]

Dione Hinchcliffe of the Dachis Group recently published his Top 12 predictions for what will happen to “social business” in 2012. We are seeing all sorts of predictions like these, and I enjoy reading every expert’s predictions in this space. Perficient is heavily involved in social collaboration for businesses with our portal and collaboration practice. […]

Every now and again either I, Mark Polly, or Jonathan Distad hit the topic of collaboration and whether there is value in collaboration tools or not.  I’ve heard plenty of detractors or at least those who question it.  (not necessarily a bad thing).  Anyway, Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) pointed me to this article about what […]

Last week, I left you with the first 5 points to how social creates value in the workplace. Continuing that blog, here are the top 5. #5 Increased Collaboration Potential: Collaboration is more than creating and sharing. It is difficult for organizations that reward individual behaviors and accomplishments to truly collaborate. In order to effectively […]

The term ‘Social Business’ has many different meanings; for some, it describes how businesses leverage social networking services like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to market or sell their services. While this externally facing definition is certainly valid, ‘Social Business’ also describes how companies are using social networking concepts and technology to enable their employees to […]

Intranets have long been the standard for sharing secure information within an organization, but they can be challenging to manage, especially when left to one person or group, and consequently, the information could become stale or employee involvement low. So how do we make sure our intranet is valuable and the investment maximized? By adding […]

IBM Connections has consistently grown with the market place but similarly with people who look at Sametime 8.5.x with some weariness they look at Connections as an administration nightmare.  It can be if you are not familiar with Websphere Application Server (WAS) and some command line trickery.  That has been solved by the TimeToAct group. […]

This week alone I fielded three requests from healthcare organizations looking to embed social media into their traditional portal collaboration strategies. The interest can be divided into these camps: Organizations looking to implement enterprise portal solutions that provide colleagues with a way to communicate in a dynamic way. This is oftentimes being done more specifically […]

Sandy Carter from IBM just published a YouTube video called: 5th Era – Social Business.  Sandy is IBM’s Vice President of Social Business Evangelism and has been publishing lots of interesting videos and blog posts.  At just over 3 minutes the video is a good break from your day. In this video, Sandy describes the […]

IBM Connections uses a tool called Tivoli Directory Integrator to push and pull profile information between Connections and a variety of different LDAP’s and systems (Peoplesoft HR for example).  It’s a powerful tool that can get a little complicated.  IBM just published a whitepaper on their developer worksweb site titled Understanding IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]