Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Collobration News & Articles

The Smartsheet project management tool now integrates with Box, the popular content sharing and collaboration service.

As we wrapped up January’s focus on Customer Experience Management and turned to Social Business for February, our experts offered some great advice on how to keep your pesky taxonomies neat and tidy, shared insights from thought leaders in the Social Business and Risk Management fields and had a moment of silence for Knowledge Management.

Read on for more great counsel from the experts: resistance is futile!

Future Francis Ford Coppolas have a new option for producing movies on the go. Avid has released its home non-linear video editing software, Avid Studio, for the iPad. Will iMovie users be enticed to try it?

The heyday surrounding Carrier IQ broke in November when one researcher went on a tirade letting everyone in the world know they were being watched. Because people get into enough trouble on their own with smartphones, the possibility of secret spies tracking text messages and emails not only felt very Big Brother, but also posed greater threat for expose. While the company denied a majority of claims, it got hit with several major lawsuits, and in a new bill announced this week, deemed the Mobile Device Privacy Act, the government has taken further action.

The next OS for Windows Phone, code-named "Apollo," will integrate the Windows 8 kernel, potentially bringing all that Microsoft offers into a unified family of devices, across PC, tablet and phone. With new hardware features offering multi-core, likely HD resolutions and SD card support, expect a rash of new phones later in 2012.

It started in early December with Disney-Pixar, Coca-Cola, General Electric, and HP — 21 top brands in all, which any media outlet would salivate over. These are the Enhanced Profile Pages of the "New Twitter" looking to keep pace (and relevancy) with the changing social order of the web, as other services such as Google+ and Facebook enhance their efforts attract top brands to their sites. Now the company said it will begin a larger rollout to an extended number of brands that include NPR, NBC News,Volkswagon and more.

As a follow up to my previous post, here are my third and fourth predictions for what 2012 holds for collaboration:

It’s no secret that I am a fan of the era of the empowered employee. Ever since I was introduced to the concept in 2010 at a Forrester conference, I’ve supported the notion that the groundswell of employee innovation was an important milestone and an imperative part of social business, now and as it evolves. So when a copy of Forrester’s new report, To Thrive in the Empowered Era You’ll Need Software, Software Everywhere, landed in my inbox, I was excited to read through it.

Is web 2.0 a little passé by now? If it is, it makes this latest data a little unfortunate. According to a poll by SpamTitan Technologies, 76% of small and mid-size business surveyed stated that they are under pressure to allow more access to Web 2.0.

I saw it coming in 2011. But no one believed me. I guess it's difficult to turn your back on something that you fervently believe in. At this point, I feel like Harry Markopolos who had been telling people that there was something wrong with Bernie Madoff — before the truth came to light.

As part of CMSWire’s "Back to Basics" theme for the month of February, I thought it’d be worthwhile to take a fresh look at something that is both obvious in its importance and yet challenging for all of us in the social business space: Driving adoption.

The hard part of selling isn't the actual sale. Any good salesperson will tell you it's the monotonus data entry and admin tasks that get in the way of productivity. Now, online selling platform maker SalesCrunch said it has integrated its next-generation meeting application CrunchConnect into Salesforce.com, with the promise to "…radically reduce the tedious data entry associated with customer relationship management." 

The mobile and social media industry is a fast-growing market in the U.S.,with a 30% annual growth in 2011. Forecast to grow into a US$ 100 billion industry by 2015, how does each specific business segment — including mobile content, advertising and social media — stack up?

Most of us probably don't have any type of security 1.0 for our collection of mobile devices. But the threat of attack is growing as hackers and scammers look to get at our data or compromise our details from our phones.

I took a peek at the article last week reporting on the NNG 10 best intranets of 2012 with some curiosity regarding what would be reported and I found something that was infinitely more interesting to me in the user comments.

Virtually everything today is manufactured in China. While it used to be that gadgets, gizmos and other products were made in the U.S., Taiwan or a brand's home country, businesses are now outsourcing mostly to manufacturing facilities in China. Amid calls for offshored jobs to return to local soil, will China retain its advantage in this industry?

With smartphones now outselling PCs and a recent global CIO  study showing 75% of respondents targeting mobile as a top spending priority, IBM took action to secure its place in the mobile enterprise domain, announcing a "definitive agreement" to acquire mobile app and infrastructure software developer Worklight.

“Our clients are under increased pressure to meet the growing demands of a workforce and customer base that now treat mobility as mission critical to their business,” said Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM application and infrastructure middleware.

“When people engage properly with each other and with technology…trust, self-organization, and good business results emerge” — Andrew McAfee

Dr. Andrew McAfee, of MIT and “Enterprise 2.0” fame continues to challenge organizations to adopt social business tactics and platforms. Most recently, Professor McAfee led a task force of 18 members of the information management vendor community in conjunction with a non-profit association. The results of this research project were published as a white paper series called “When Social Meets Business, Real Work Gets Done.”

Investors can barely contain their excitement about the latest rumors that Facebook, Inc. might be filing its initial public offering (IPO) as early as this week.  Tech IPOs happen almost every day, so why all the excitement about this one? Facebook’s IPO will be one of the largest in history. It will generate thousands of millionaires from those lucky enough to purchase the stock.

Enterprise guinea pigs will soon be getting hold of the next big update to Microsoft's Office Suite, with the public promised beta access in the near future.