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Time to play catch up for all of you returning home from the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. Check out what you've missed this past week.

This year at the SharePoint Conference, Laura Rogers and myself had the opportunity to present two express sessions. Our sessions were relatively short sessions, designed to quickly highlight key features with SharePoint 2013. One of the sessions was designed to cover five simple improvements in SharePoint 2013 that will make everyday tasks easier to complete. In this article we will be reviewing the five features that made it into my top five list!

IBM is ready to show off a more social version of Notes/Domino December 14, but a preview was shown by the company in mid November — here's the rundown of updates.

There was a fairly controversial post the other day written by Inge Geerdens posted on the LinkedIn "thought leader" blogs that spoke about how she is reluctant to hire forty-something professionals. She gave a bunch of specious reasons and then caved underneath the avalanche of negative responses by authoring a new post, which was just as quickly met with disdain from the public that labelled her and her posts in not so glowing terms.

Facebook launched a Social Job Search App yesterday, positioning it as an altruistic move of sorts.

They say they want to be instrumental in putting the world back to work. 

That's right, stop pasting data into Excel spreadsheets, Dachis says its new Collaborative Reporting will offer more time for decision making.

The US may be its home, but Jive Software has a hankering to get international — and local.

I interviewed Yammer co-founder Adam Pisoni about a month after Yammer's acquisition by Microsoft, and he had a few things to say about collaborative tool winners and losers, and why he thinks 70 percent of IT collaboration projects fail.

With the SharePoint Las Vegas conference now winding down, it’s back to the business of actually making content work for business. Alfresco, with this in mind, has upgraded its mobile app for iOS, which adds wider functionality to the app that was first released in September last year.

There is no way that you've heard anything about the newest release of SharePoint without hearing about the new Social features. With this release of products, the SharePoint team has put a huge emphasis on social and how it works within the environment. After being here at SharePoint conference, I think the best summary of the Social features that I can give is that this release of products simply highlights things that users already do. Wait! Before you stop reading because you think I am flat out wrong, hear me out. 

Facebook is experimenting with a new comment structure. The social network is testing a threading comment system that aims to make comments more conversational.

Thus far, the SharePoint conference has been full of conversations surrounding the Project Server and how it fits into the vision of this release cycle. From the pre-con session, to mentions in the keynote and a full set of sessions, Microsoft has proven that it is committed and will be coming out strong with their new release. 

One of the really big announcements this week from OpenText’s customer conference in Orlando is the release of the OpenText Cloud, which according to OpenText CEO Mark J. Barrenechea in his keynote speech, is the only cloud on the market at the moment specifically for enterprise information management (EIM).

HiSoftware has announced that their HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff SP2010 Suite will be paired with the NewsGator Connector service. The combination product, the HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff NewsGator Connector, works with NewsGator Social Sites to monitor internal and external communications on social platforms to ensure that only appropriate material is shared.

Smack in the middle of its annual customer conference: Enterprise World, OpenText is busy making news, starting with the release of Tempo Social and Tempo Box for the Cloud.

Business video platform provider Qumu, has released an update for their SharePoint Video Content Management 3.0. This update was introduced alongside survey results regarding SharePoint’s video capabilities and aims to improve platform's video capabilities.

Mobile device management provider Zenprise has released its quarterly report looking at mobile trends in the enterprise. Results identify iPad as the main factor in iOS growth, while Android dominates key verticals.

The great thing about conferences is that by the end of them, you usually have a better idea about products and vendor offerings. The SharePoint conference is Las Vegas is no different. However, true to form, Microsoft has only half-answered one of the burning questions of this year: what will it do with Yammer?

This year has been abuzz with the newest Microsoft product releases, from the much anticipated Surface, Windows 8 phones and a new version of Office, there really is a whole new wave of products that are available to the masses. SharePoint 2013 is a huge component of the story, but it is important to see that it is still only a piece of the story. 

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

— Steve Jobs Stanford University commencement address, June 2005