Posts Tagged ‘social’

Is your organization committed to leveraging SharePoint as its enterprise collaboration and portal platform? Are you are also evaluating enterprise social platforms? If your answer is “yes” to both of those questions, there are a few things that you and your stakeholders should strongly consider as you have internal conversations about leveraging enterprise social platforms […]

Let’s consider two kinds of portals: one is a place where stuff is, the other is a place where people exist. Most portals start out as the former, and they tend to stay that way. In most organizations, the portal is a place where stuff is. You go there when you need some stuff, or […]

Reading this L.A. Times article about a recent study performed by researchers from Harvard’s Department of Psychology entitled “Disclosing Information about the Self is Intrinsically Rewarding” made me think not so much about the consumer implications and explanations for the popularity of social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, and Pinterest, but rather […]

Oracle announced in May 2012 that they had entered into an agreement to buy Vitrue our of Atlanta, Georgia.  Vitrue is a cloud-based Social Marketing and Engagement Platform that “enables marketers to centrally create, publish, moderate, manage, measure, and report on all their activities on social media platforms—including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+.”  At the […]

Last month I told you about the features Microsoft Dynamics CRM is rolling out as part of the “CRM Q2 2012 Service Update” which will include massive improvements and capabilities around mobility and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  As most of you have heard by now, Microsoft has just announced its newest mobility device the “Surface”, which […]

We all have a great many questions about the roadmap impact of Microsoft’s much-discussed (and still, as of this writing, unofficial) acquisition of Yammer.  Serendipitously, TechCrunch has published an interview with departing Microsoft executive Nitin Bhatia, someone who might have better guesses than the rest of us.  In the interview, Mr. Bhatia– who is departing for […]

Wow.  And you thought we were done!  This afternoon, it feels like I’ve spent half the day keeping tabs on the conversation around Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition and its implications for enterprise social networking.  And for good reason– this is big news.  You can already find my own thoughts on the topic, both in terms of […]

So we’ve looked at Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition from a holistic, Microsoft-centric viewpoint.  One hot question that we haven’t yet covered is what this means to on-premise SharePoint customers who may already have their own social solutions installed and running. Here’s a quick take of the two key points from my own perspective: 1. To the Cloud. One […]

Maybe I’m amazed.  According to no less than the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in fact acquiring Yammer, Inc. This begs a few questions for which we’ll anxiously be awaiting answers, then: What, if any, aspects of Yammer’s current offering will be integrated into the next release of Microsoft’s productivity stack?  In other words, how will […]

By now you may have heard the rumor that Microsoft is looking to buy Yammer for a billion dollars. It’s a pretty shocking thought, but while anything can happen, I’m reserving my real shock until and unless something actually goes down.  Right now, this is just another rumor, nothing more, and a surprising one at […]

I’m always looking for interesting ways to look at Social Collaboration and best practices.  John Brunswick has a post on exactly that.  He notes the three principals of social collaboration. while my favorite is leverage a ubiquitous social fabric, his other points resonate……………especially if you want to cut down the silos he mentions in his […]

Tech Crunch has an interesting article about all the automation going on in the social media space.  If you want a good sign that companies are starting to realize that they no longer control the conversation about their brand and feel overwhelmed with how to manage so many conversations, this article will point that out.  […]