Attention all you Yammer (news, site) fans! Today we caught wind of an announcement that makes it sound like the enterprise's favorite microblogging platform is en route to becoming a full E2.0 suite. 

This week we reviewed a handful of different platforms for enterprise collaboration, saw big names like IBM crawl out of less-than-social caves, and once again celebrated the awesomeness of e-mail. Meanwhile, experts admonished us to beware of getting too carried away, lest social Frankensteins rise from our laboratories.  

Earlier on in the summer, Motive Systems (news, site) said that it was taking its document management software to the cloud and that it would have the process completed by the end of August. That process is now finished and M-Files Vault, a system that is specifically targeted at the SMB market is now available.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• MySpace Users Can Now Update Facebook Status Simultaneously
• Twitter Changes Mean Never Giving Your Password Out Again
• Older Adults Taking Up Social Media
• Apple's Ping Launches As New iTunes Social Network

What if you could spot a trend before it is one? Curt Dalton wondered the same thing. With his Internet Time Machine, a search retrieval and analysis engine, companies can reverse the traditional process for finding relevant searches related to specific products and niche interests.

HootSuite has been busy making lives easier with a number of new announcements over the month of August including a private beta of their HootSuite for Blackberry. For cloud service vendors, there’s also some good news on SMB adaptation of SaaS and hybrid systems.

The history of advertising has relied on capturing the emotions of potential customers. Whether it’s tugging at heart stings or pushing buttons, there’s no denying the power of words to persuade consumers into buying, donating or otherwise making a commitment to a brand.

Plone 4 (news, site) not only ramps up on features but also paves the way for future releases that will offer even more.

A new-ish collaboration tool Agreedo allows users to make plans available to online colleagues to better prepare, run and manage meetings and teams.

While you may not have heard of Saba, the enterprise-level networking company has been a powerhouse for big names like Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Cisco. This week they released Saba Live, a real-time tool jam-packed with just about every aspect of enterprise collaboration ever. 

While a personal secretary is great for bringing the most important e-mails to the forefront, not all of us can afford/actually want one. This week Google attempts to solve that problem with Priority Inbox, an experimental feature that sorts messages into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything else”. 

We recently introduced you to Smarsh, an organization that provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including various social media platforms. This week Smarsh and LIMRA formed a strategic partnership designed to help its members meet a variety of needs associated with electronic message archiving and compliance.

As discussed in my previous post (How to Define Measurable and Traceable Requirements for SharePoint Projects), focusing on the business requirements first, user requirements second and then system/technical requirements is necessary to effectively define measurable and traceable requirements for SharePoint projects. 

In this post, I’ll show you and explain you the 4 key steps in developing requirements for SharePoint projects. 

An organization’s employees collaborate every day. How can you capture that information and transform it into knowledge that the broader organization can use? The most important aspect of collaboration is the ability to run analysis over the data to draw important insights and use it again in the future.

 If your company is one of many who think their brand might benefit from social media and social media analytics but don’t really know how to implement it into your marketing campaign, the just-announced acquisition of Intrepid Consulting by Alterian (news, site) is aimed at you.

Dashboards are an effective way of monitoring data and web information, but what if your current product doesn't provide reporting or a dash? ReportsMaestro could have the answer.

After all the hoopla around the ILTA conference in Las Vegas last week seems things have quieted down a bit GRC-wise. Even still EMC is looking to guarantee the safety of data located in cloud services, CA is trying to set itself up as the cloud security provider and Guidance Software has just released a complete e-Discovery platform.

A new report, Market Overview: Smartphone Management, by Forrester estimates that in the next 12 to 18 months, IT managers will change the way they manage client computing strategies, impacting smartphone management in the enterprise.

New school year begins, and Microsoft has been very, very busy with upgrades to its Office Web Apps only two months after it is released. SAP, in the meantime, started reselling SteamServe’s document automation solution under a new name.

Google's acquisition of SocialDeck hit the rags yesterday, marking the Internet giant's third purchase this month, and further suggesting that a primary-colored social solution is in the pipeline.