Communities News & Articles

They’ve only been publicly available for four months, but the Web 2.0 community solution cubeless is already picking up awards right and left, including becoming a finalist in the Forrester Groundswell Awards.

What’s the different between a community and a social networking site? A lot says Tomoye, provider of the Communities for SharePoint solution. Today they announce their latest version of the knowledge management and collaboration SharePoint solution designed with the enterprise in mind.

CMSWire had an opportunity to see the Communities for SharePoint solution and talk with CEO and Co-Founder Eric Sauve.

The more popular Web 2.0 technologies become the smaller they get.

Case in point: Plum, a social media platform company, has launched a new social media platform called Share Space Pro. Considered to be micro-social network, Share Space Pro aims to provide users with a custom social-networking application that can be modified to look and feel like the host site it’s running on.

Gartner analyst Adam Sarner has new research that states that 50% of all Social Media campaigns will fail. Didn’t we hear something similar to this before when a study by Deloitte informed us that social networking was a waste of money? What is the real story here — are marketing departments trying to fit social media into a traditional marketing bucket or is social media marketing just a lot of hype?

Clearspace has received some impressive upgrades thanks to Jive Software, a provider of enterprise collaboration and community software. Version 2.5 of Clearspace has some new features that might entice businesses to embrace social networking as a motivational and inspirational tool for employees.

Jive Software, a provider of enterprise collaboration and community software, can hardly stand it. They are just bursting at the seams with good news. With record growth, a new online community and a new CFO, who wouldn’t be excited?

Piggybacking on news from a few weeks ago, Alfresco has officially launched Alfresco Enterprise 2.2. Featured enhancements seek to support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites and are targeted toward the company’s “most advanced, interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries.”

Curious to know what’s changed and see the new look? Read on.

The Swedish company Episerver, one of the world’s fastest growing providers of Web Content Management (WCM) platforms, has made the strategic investment of acquiring Netstar, enabling Episerver to offer its clients a Web Content Management solution with an integrated community component.

Telerik, a vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, has beefed up its Sitefinity CMS with version 3.2, adding a number of nifty new features to their website, intranet and community portal development platform.

AlwaysOn has announced their OnMedia 100, a list of top private companies that highlight “game-changing players in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.”

Okay, so Microsoft has finally gone and done it. They have actually implemented their own technology that demonstrate it’s capabilities, uh, sort of.

SharePointPedia is a social computing platform built on SharePoint Office Server 2007 (MOSS) developed to serve the greater SharePoint community, pontificating on and proliferating all things SharePoint. There’s only one problem: it’s not quite there yet.

One of the benefits of a globalized world is an increased ability to draw from the expertise of strangers from far-flung corners of the universe. This also results in a more fertile environment for open source development.

As a result, everybody’s got a community these days. Last week document management firm Laserfiche launched the Professional Developer Partnership (PDP) program last week.