Posts Tagged ‘social’

Over on CMSWire, Oscar Berg (@oscarberg) posted an article describing 5 signs that your company doesn’t ‘get’ Social Business.  Social Business was the theme of Lotusphere 2012 and it seemed like everyone ‘got’ it there, but I’m sure there are a lot of companies still struggling with what it means to be a Social Business. […]

Thanks to @the_real_p_k for a twitter reference to a great short article on gamification at SharePoint Analyst HQ.  I’ve seen gamification come up a lot lately.  Newsgator adds it to SharePoint.  Kudos Badges adds it to IBM Connections.   I think badges and gamification can add a lot to a social network.    A social network tool […]

Baseline Magazine has an article about the four fastest growing areas of IT.  They don’t say much about the trends but I’m not surprised by what I see and obviously about where an enterprising person can attain some career advancement…………                   Keep an eye out on Baseline […]

On 9/15/2011 I attended a great session from IBM on the IBM Customer Experience Suite, WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager Version 8 Beta given by Lauren Wendel, Brian Chaput, Nicole Carrier and Thomas Stober of IBM.  They gave some great insight into what new capabilities will be coming in Q3 in the upcoming beta. Four Key Investment […]

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

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 […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

So it probably seems kind of odd that a portal and collaboration blog would blog about using a blog post for content marketing. In a way it almost seems crass. But hear me out, Tom Pisello mentions various ways to get the most bang for your buck which includes the use of content derivatives and […]

It’s a few weeks old but IBM had a press release about being the worldwide market share leader for social platforms. What I would be interested to know is how IDC scopes social platforms.  Is it the social networking tools created by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Jive, Telligent and others?  Does it include instant messaging?  Does […]