Posts Tagged ‘social’

I read an article by Chris Clark on CMSWire last week covering SharePoint, Yammer, and the way UI (User Interface) impacts use and adoption.  The article itself was enjoyable and informative, and I found myself agreeing with Mr. Clark’s central argument– Yammer’s superior UI helps it win adoption where SharePoint’s more complex UI can sometimes […]

I continue to hear a lot of discussion on the true value of social.  I think we are past the hype of social doing everything and more into the fact that social can provide value provided it’s used correctly.  I was speaking with some people at Perficient who referenced a self-service customer site.  As part […]

In recent weeks, I’ve been seeing an uptick in aggression from SharePoint’s would-be competitors, and I suppose that makes sense.  Microsoft’s do-it all platform for collaboration, social business, intranets and extranets, content management, enterprise search, business intelligence and whiskey distillation—okay, maybe not the whiskey, but everything else and then some—is pretty much ubiquitous in large […]

The title of this post by CIO.com caught my attention immediately this morning: How IT Pros Can Use Pinterest for Career Growth Pinterest launched in 2010, and since then I have kept my eyes on its growth and how people are using it for sharing and posting visual content. I never thought that the visual […]

IDC has released a new report that shows IBM holds 14% and Jive has 10% market share in Enterprise Social Software. David Rowe at CMSWire.com provides some details contained in the IDC report via this article: IDC: IBM, Jive Lead Shifting Enterprise Social Software Market. I found interesting the growth rates of the various vendors. […]

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 […]

IBM announced yesterday their Cloud Suites for the C-Suite.  CRN also ran an article on it where they dive into the implications of it rather than the detail of “more than 100 offerings in the Cloud” that IBM delivers.  I like the following quotes: While CIOs and IT managers are often making cloud technology decisions, […]

I’m at the Salesforce Customer Company tour.   Before they started their main session, they brought a couple people up to talk about uses of social.  Here are some quick notes on those interviews. They started with a great example of a company which provides vaccines to a variety of third world countries.  They use […]

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 […]

Jennifer Okimoto, an Associate Partner with IBM spoke about the social business payoff and gave a lot of examples on where it’s happening. The knowledge based economy was originally coined in 1996.  It came with the realization that computers and knowledge change how the work is done.  Jennifer highlighted that a knowledge worker is not […]

I’m at an eWeek Sponsored half day session that focuses on Social Business.  Marcia Connor was the first speaker.  She’s a Principal at SensifyGroup (@marciamarcia).  She focuses on helping people work at jobs that don’t suck. One of the key problems is the sheer amount of data out there.  The internet adds 34 Gigabytes each […]

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 […]