Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Collobration News & Articles

A final announcement from OpenText this week. Yesterday we had an extension of media management through a partnership with ConceptShare; today it’s the turn of its mobile offerings, which have been expanded with the release of Exceed onDemand for Apple iPad tablets.

At Social Slam 2012 last week, one of my big ideas about community management was that it’s a lifestyle, not a job. It’s not revolutionary, but it does bear repeating, considering that so many companies continue to operate between the hours of 9-5, with little regard for how they will engage with users in the evenings, on the weekends and across the world. A recent report by Forbes Insights surveyed more than 500 executives to better understand the changing landscape of the workplace.

Citizen journalism has been growing in popularity. News often breaks via social media. Traditional media outlets are incorporating social media into their reporting efforts, and some even have dedicated areas for citizen journalist. A Lebanese entrepreneur is taking the concept a step further with his new mobile app, Signal.

Imagine being in the throes of an exceptionally busy time at work, only to have your email box regularly deluged by a multi-week series of alerts regarding feminine napkins. Yes, this is a true story.

IBM may be an old technology firm, but lately the company has been busy making sure it offers products that help organizations support the latest trends in enterprise technology. The company has announced a new set of integration offerings designed to help businesses easily connect their applications to all types of emerging content.

There is no question about the dominance of Apple in the tablet market. With Google's Android lagging in second place, everyone else is in the minority. But a recent deal between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble might turn Windows 8 into a major contender in the tablet and e-reader market soon.

GageIn, a relative newcomer in the enterprise collaboration space, has debuted a new feature called News Portals, and it strives to make curating business content as easy as sharing a favorite landscape photo on Pinterest.

It’s everywhere these days: in class, on the street, or at a conference — as I found myself recently — and people around you are glued to a PDA, iPad or other wireless device. You would think we have entered a new world of connectedness; making the Internet literally our assistant, teacher, confidant and, in many cases, friend. There is, it appears, no looking back as we glide into a new digital world.

May has proved beneficial for funding — first SocialText and now DataSift. Hot on the heels of Big Data Week, DataSift is celebrating big funding with an announcement that it has secured US$ 7.2 million in a follow-on Series A round from existing investors GRP Partners and IA Ventures.

 After almost ten years as a corporation, SocialText is being reinvented. It was recently announced that the technology investment fund Bedford Funding is buying Socialtext. As a result, the social collaboration software company will become a part of the Peoplefluent family of products, known for its talent management, vendor management and workforce compliance and diversity solutions.

Seth Godin describes a Linchpin in his best selling book "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" as:

the person who is indispensable, because they refuse to become an interchangeable part, someone who merely follows the manual…the linchpins leverage something internal, not external, to create a position of power and value.”

IBM’s computing in motion strategy has become a little more concrete. The company announced a “new” family of products, which it has termed Mobile Foundation, designed to provide businesses a comprehensive set of tools and services to manage and support their increasingly mobile enterprise environment.

A new free crowdsourcing and collaboration tool from Spigit called ICON is available today, and the workplace just got even more social with its exclusive integration with the popular enterprise social network Yammer.

On one side, they say "Mobile first!" These are the same people who used to say "Social first!" On the other side, they say "Show me the ROI!" This is what the other side always says. I say "Meh." Both sides trot out slide deck after slide deck either with kinetic-text videos with upbeat music or with dry tables and charts that inform but don't inspire.

They author so many infographics, I'm surprised that nobody is yelling "Infographics first!". All of the speeches, presentations and infographics are laden with either narrative and perspective or statistics and projections proving how the latest fad is the newest version of the Holy Grail. How many trends will rise and fall before people stop bandwagon-jumping and acknowledge the basic truth? The only lasting strategy in the current age of abundance is "Humans first."

BlackBerry World is starting up in Florida today. It is pretty much the final opportunity the company has to win faith and generate buzz from developers by showing off its next-generation BB10 operating system. We look at some highlights from the BB10 keynote.

We have come a long way from corporate wikis. Today, smart enterprises are leveraging advanced social platforms to promote communication and openness.

In its latest report, Forrester Research predicts that tablets are on their way to becoming the primary personal computing device. Users will continue to embrace tablets and the core tool to pivot among computing environments. Forrester’s new report explores the impact of tablets on the technology market and how technology leaders can prepare their teams for the shift tablets will cause in enterprise computing.

No matter what you say about Google, Google Apps has become one of the everyday work tools for many enterprises, especially — although not exclusively — in the SMB space. Most people assume that easy functionality combined with bargain-basement pricing is the main attraction. However, according to research by Cloud Alliance, that is not, in fact, the case.

Google's head of mobile advertising has put together a little show-and-tell project, The Busy Executive's Guide to Winning With Mobile, which looks at strategies for success in the mobile space. The thing is, if you don't already know what the content is, you really shouldn't be running a company. Or have access to firearms. Or heavy machinery. Or livestock.

When the folks at Good Technology predicted what 2012 would bring for mobile enterprise security, they said that the enterprise will start to manage smartphones and tablets more holistically. Almost five months later, with the release of its quarterly device activation report for the first quarter of 2012, Good Technology shows that the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise is bigger than ever.