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There was a time when all we heard about were social networking solutions lovingly termed "Facebook for the Enterprise". We don't hear that much anymore and there's a reason for it. Enterprises are getting smarter about how social computing solutions can be leveraged and they are much more resistant to the belief that Facebook-like participation is possible or even necessary.

CMSWire had the opportunity to speak with J.B. Holston, CEO and President of NewsGator, on the topic of enterprise social computing and how solutions like their RSS engine — now called Social Sites Professional — is changing the face of social computing for enterprises today.

CMS Watch studies the content management industry very closely. It's their job. They write a number of good research reports on technologies like web content management, enterprise content management, social software and SharePoint. Every so often they take all that knowledge and wrap it up into a neat little subway map, giving us a bird's eye view of who's who and where they fit in the industry. 

An updated version of that Subway map has been released and it is certainly worth taking a look at — if not using some of that color printer ink you hold so dear.

Alfresco Software, Inc., announced that Bill Robinson was named their new Vice President for the Americas. His addition should help this open source Enterprise Content Management firm continue to grow even in this difficult economy.

Are you a designer looking for clients? Or are you looking for a designer but don't know where to begin? Meet 99designs. 

99designs, one of the largest design competition marketplaces, has a platform that allows graphic designers and their clients to crowdsource. Lucky for you, they will be demonstrating the platform at the San Francisco New Tech Meetup, one of San Francisco's largest and longest running technology event and community group.

Microsoft made big news when it first announced it was going to offer SharePoint as an online service. As part of an effort to reach new customers and continue to grow revenues, the online service comes in two flavors — standard and dedicated.

SharePoint Online is part of a greater Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) which also includes Exchange Online, Office Communications Online, Office Live Meeting and the Deskless Worker Suite Online. The BPOS is now available in 19 countries and five languages.

Acquia, the subscription based service and software company behind the popular open source web content management system Drupal, has made some new announcements that mean a change in management and exciting new things for the future of Acquia and Drupal.

We talk a lot about how important it is for enterprises today to manage their information carefully, keeping track of it and keeping it secure, yet accessible to the right people. Increased regulations have forced many to rethink the strategies and technologies they have in place today.

If you aren't sure what you need to do to get your business processes in order, then attend this one hour webinar called, "New Trends in Ultra-Critical Document Sharing: Case Studies You Can Put to Use Today".

It seems like everyone is studying the use of SharePoint in organizations today. Do you use it? How do you use it? What do like about it? What don't you like? Most of the studies tend to come to the same conclusions.

A study by AIIM and Information Architected also reveals many of the same common themes on the use of SharePoint. It's widely implemented, but not used to its fullest extent.

Following a wave of browser related awesomeness, comprised of multi-process architecture (Chrome) and bar-raising sexiness (Safari), a brave and very unlikely candidate has dropped a few breadcrumbs concerning a new solution in the works.

Microsoft’s prototype—codenamed Gazelle—is reportedly after a huge fish. Taking a different route to their desired success than the aforementioned, the company’s research team recently released a thesis on what a secure browser should really look like. The statement addresses a number of security issues that have been around since day one, and the proposed solutions make Gazelle out to be the first browser that thinks like an operating system.

The catch? It’s slower, it uses more resources than IE7 and as of today, it’s still unavailable for test runs. If it’s ever finally released to the public, what do you think the chances are that the world will trade in convenience and speed for security?

Trying to organize and implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions is a bit like wrestling a morphing blob of goo. Squeeze one part of the blob to get it under control and another section bulges out and falls on top of you.

For two years, a quartet of industry players has worked on ECM3 — an ECM Maturity Model created to help organizations tame the mighty blob. Let's take a look at what they came up with.

Sometime today, The New York Times is supposed to launch two new citizen journalism sites focused on local communities.

"The Local" will appear on the Times' Web pages with sites dedicated to three communities in New Jersey — Maplewood, South Orange and Millburn — and two Brooklyn neighborhoods, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

The CODiE Awards are on our radar again for 2009 and the finalist announcements are expecting to be flooding the internet wires. In this case, web content management vendor Clickability has made the list of finalist again for the Content Management category.

A new survey from the folks at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) found that among 400+ respondents, IT decision makers and influencers don't know what they don't know. 89% of respondents think effective management of electronic information is “very important” or “important” to the long-term success of their organizations. In fact, not only do they think it's important, 63% think they are “very confident” or “confident” that they could prove their electronic information is “accurate, accessible, and trustworthy.”

Sure, you know that information management is important. You might even think that all your information is legitimate and reliable. Think again.

Thunderhead, a company known for their innovations in document automation and multi-channel communications solutions, has got more than a few reasons to celebrate. After a top position in Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 for EMEA and a top 10 ranking for revenue growth in Software Magazine's Software 500, the communications superstars are being acknowledged in a huge way by a huge company.

In recognition of their sales success, solution development and easy integration with various IBM technologies, the company has been declared IBM's 2008 ISV Partner of the Year.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• TechCrunch Is Full of What?
• Social Networking Attracts 75% of Online Europeans - comScore
• Zcapes Launches Microblogging/Activity Stream Service For Mobile Web
• Baby Boomers Using Social Media
• Yelp.com Outed For Mafia-Like Extortion

Even in an “economic downturn” some companies are thriving. The open source enterprise solutions provider, eZ Systems, has been on the move in North America over the last few months. And their progress is paying off to the tune of new strategy and hiring plans in the United States.

2009 brings about promise, hope and most importantly change. And change comes in the fashion of newly elected leadership for the open source Web Content Management powerhouse, Drupal.

With the New Year not quite two months underway, Drupal has gone through the process of electing new leadership to spearhead their push into the future of content management. 27 applicants, some of whom were existing members reapplying, led to six new permanent members for a total of eight on the board. This brings the number of permanent Drupal members to an impressive 30.

Tuesdays just got more exciting in Washington, D.C.

The ECMINSTiTUTE has begun sponsoring a web conference to help the Federal Knowledge Management Working Group discuss options for a Federal government sponsored Knowledge Management (KM) Center. It’s called Idea Tuesday and just a few weeks ago, over two dozen federal agencies including the US Army, Navy, Air Force, FBI, NASA and FAA collaborated online for a presentation entitled "The Federal Knowledge Management Initiative Roadmap."

One of the first official demonstrations of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) came from Alfresco last December. Their Alfresco:Joomla! Integration Module enabled organizations who use Joomla for web content management to access content stored in Alfresco's content management repository. In fact Alfresco version 3 has built in CMIS capabilities, so it was only a matter of time before another open source vendor would come along and set-up their own integration module. Optaros, in association with Acquia and Alfresco has now also created a set of CMIS integration modules connecting Drupal web content management with Alfresco.

Digital Asset Management is an important part of any organization's content management strategy. Whether it's used to support web content management or enterprise content management, the requirements for a DAM solution have gone far beyond just a solution for storing digital assets.

With more and more organizations focusing on the Internet to attract, maintain and support their customers, CMSWire thought it was time to take a closer look at what is in store for digital asset management this year. And we went to some DAM providers to seek our answers.