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The Mac version of Jive's updated Producteev

Social task management for free. That’s the appealing price tag of a rebuilt version of Producteev, the tool that Jive Software bought last fall. 

What roles do social technologies play in facilitating collaboration? A new study by Avanade showed a large, but untapped opportunity to fully adopt and leverage social technologies for collaboration at work. 

Online apps are becoming a big craze, particularly with the all-out war between Google Apps and Microsoft’s Office 365. But Zoho has been in the game for quite a while, reporting over six million users, and the company is now out with version 3.0 of its Docs online document management application. The enhancements focus on file sharing and collaboration, providing tighter integration across its office productivity apps.  

  Bitrix Software has unveiled a major upgrade for its beta Bitrix24 social intranet service, with Google Docs integration, mobile CRM and other enhancements. 

The mobile enterprise is picking up. Companies are spending more on mobile device management, implementing BYOD policies and working to help employees do more, from anywhere and any device.

Sales teams for Microsoft's Yammer social network will join up with the Office 365 team, the company has announced, all the more easy to integrate the two technologies.

As the nature of the workplace changes, so does its tools. One tool that continues to change as the digital workplace becomes more collaborative, mobile and social is the productivity app.

Perhaps the most widespread tenet of organization in the enterprise is that of command and control, an idea that seems somehow counter to the notion of democratized information. Social business then, it should be no surprise to hear, is forcing companies to reorganize internally.

Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more — or less — collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution. 

With new technology constantly being added to the workplace environment, it's not always easy to know how well these changes are working. This is something that Chess Media aims to find out in an employee collaboration and work style solutions Future of Work Survey.

Of course you've heard of the coveted Aragon Research Hot Vendors report, and only the most compelling new technologies or those leveraging cloud, mobile, content or video can pass muster. This year, Alfresco, MZinga, Accellion and SpringCM, among others, have been named in the second annual report.

Citrix has announced two new chat functions that are designed to improve the functionality of the Podio project management platform.

Nearly a year after announcing it, Salesforce has given a summer release date for its Chatter based Communities offering.

Enterprise social networks is a ballooning sector, and the activity in this space picked up yet again this week with the release of Interact Intranet 7, a polished update on the intranet theme that includes search tools and a responsive design.

If there are two things that fit together like a hand in a glove, it's collaboration and knowledge management. That's why Moxie Software's new Social Knowledgebase makes perfect sense.

Tibco's social network tibbr has released an updated version of its mobile apps, and the new look should make the tablet version especially a bit more welcoming. The update also includes a rebuilt discovery engine, Sriram Chakravarthy, Tibco VP of engineering said in an interview.

When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal’s integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems. 

Social business provider Moxie Software has released its Collaboration Spaces technology, a social activity and workflow tool that will directly compete with Yammer and Jive.

Social collaboration specialist Telligent has updated its Enterprise and Analytics offerings, adding instant messaging to the Enterprise social layer and social insights to its Analytics package.

When it comes to most enterprise social, collaboration, information management issues,  the key indicator as to whether it will be successfully integrated or not is if a company’s mindset can be changed to accept, adopt and adapt accordingly. So when it comes to executive leadership, it isn’t surprising that changing one’s mindset about how to govern can be the key to cultivating successful relationships, ideas and innovation.