Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

Enterprise communication and collaboration technology vendor HyperOffice is releasing a new version of its cloud-based SaaS communication suite that combines social and collaboration technologies and capabilities.

Box had a really good year last year. And it's aiming for an even better one this year. Given that Box is planning an IPO next year, this is hardly surprising. To create business and boost company value in the run up to the IPO, it has announced the creation of Box Partner Network.

We have been struggling with the downside of email for quite a while -- it's high time to act. 

Rarely do you see forces at work in the software market that are truly disruptive. The introduction of the Internet was one. It pretty much changed how all applications are designed while introducing entire classes of new applications to the market. Even rarer is to find three disruptive forces at the same time that work together to truly change the landscape of the software industry. 

Social tools and cloud computing are emerging as key strengths for talent management, while learning compliance is an Achilles heel for many organizations. Those are some of the key takeaways from a new report.

Employee engagement has risen in the past year, according to data from the Temkin Group, covering more than 2,400 US workers at for-profit companies. The Index found a  number of traits that engaged employees share and Temkin Group also offers suggestions to companies seeking to improve their own employee engagement.

I read a good quote on Twitter last week posted by Pauli Kongas (@pkongas). He said "Intranets are not built -- they are grown. More like plants, not like buildings."

Unless you are hiding under a rock, then over the past few months you have probably been slammed with the idea of Social in the Workplace. If you are like me, you like to review the demos and look at the concepts but then chuckle a little inside when you have to look at how you actually implement something like the demo in your workplace. Everything sounds great, but how in the world does it all just happen? 

You’re a Dropbox user. Or a Box user. Or you use Google Drive. Which is great. But don’t you want to do more with your files than just share them? Enter Kerio's Samepage.

There's a lot of discussion about creating great customer experiences, but it's time we take some of the ideas and methodologies learned in that realm and apply them to creating a great employee experience, specifically, to the intranet. 

Wednesday's opening keynote at IBM Connect 2013 came in three parts, which continued to reinforced the idea of purposeful application of social in a business environment.  

Most Americans would prefer to work virtually, but most also believe the traditional office will last for at least another half century. Those conflicts between desire and reality are among the findings in a new survey about attitudes toward virtual work. 

IBM’s social software platform for businesses, Connections, is bursting with new features and add-ons. Now there’s one more, with the announcement this week by gamification vendor Bunchball of its first Nitro for IBM Connections. 

Forty six percent of companies increased their investments in social business in 2012, while 62% said they would do so in the next three years an IBM report has found.

The most common types of manager resistance to enterprise collaboration that I've come across in my work are: not a priority, uncertainty about tangible ROI, uncertainty about overall business value, and lack of a supportive culture.

Let’s take a look at each one in more detail and explore how to deal with them.