Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

Collaborating on documents has never been easy. Even if you’re working from a desktop with people in the same room there’s bound to be issues, so you can only imagine what it’s like trying to share and edit documents from a mobile device while on the go. Workshare is trying to improve this experience with a new app that aims to offer document comparison for mobile devices.

Enterprise video solution provider Qumu is launching a new application designed to allow users to directly collaborate with video from the IBM Connections interface. The IBM Connections Social Video Solution enables uploading, sharing, distributing and managing video from IBM Connections.

A SharePoint road map. It’s a neat phrase, and one that evokes images of nicely labelled diagrams, feature discussions and documented plans for the future.

And it won’t work. Certainly not for everyone.

From the opening act of They Might be Giants, to a closing view of IBM Watson's new life in enterprise collaboration, the Opening General Session of IBM Connect 2013 was a play on the theme of “from 'liking' to leading” through the purposeful application of social technologies.

Enterprise social collaboration software from IBM gets a boost in 2013 with the announced release of Connections 4.5 at the company's Connect Conference this week.

Interested in increasing SharePoint end user adoption and productivity? Gamification might be for you. 

Building Customer Loyalty
If you want to have loyal customers then there are four core customer experience competencies you must have a handle on. Pick up a few more great CXM tips from our recent #CXMChat Tweet Jam.

Goodbye Marketing Funnel
Forrester says you should ditch the marketing funnel in favor of the customer life cycle. But there is one funnel you should consider key to your customer experience strategy -- the social funnel.

The 21st Century "Social" Business
Organizations are in a state of transformation, which many refer to becoming Social Businesses. But there's more going on here then a need to be more "social". Today's ideal organization is a complex adaptive system, of which social is only a part.

Most Popular

• Microsoft Bets on Yammer to Change Itself and Us
• 'Social Business' is Only Half of Enterprise 2.0
• A New Business Model for SharePoint 2013
• Facebook Advertising Works - If You Don't Make These 3 Mistakes
• Microsoft Office 2013 Pricing Emerges, Some Business Users Can Bring It Home

Editor's Picks

• Gartner: Top Ten Digital Technologies, Business Priorities, Changing Role of CIO
• Building Customer Loyalty with the Four Customer Experience Core Competencies
• Cloud Computing Skills Sorely Needed in Workforce
• Interview: Lithium CEO Rob Tarkoff Has Some Advice for Social Media Consultants
• Ian Truscott: 2013 Belongs to the Content Professional

Around the Web

• Content Management in the Social Age
• Arianna Huffington: Dare to Fail
• Yammer CEO Recounts Lessons of Microsoft Acquisition
• Any brand can promise, great brands deliver
• Great Ideas Aren't Enough

Featured Events (all events | post your event

• Feb 05 -- (Webinar) The 5 Linchpins of Great Digital Experiences
• Mar 04 -- Adobe Digital Marketing Summit
• Mar 20 -- SharePoint Conference for Business Users
• Apr 18 -- Forrester's Forum for Marketing Leadership Professionals Los Angeles
• Apr 29 -- Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit San Diego 2013

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Systems Analyst in Ontario at OpenText
• Online Community Associate in Santa Monica at EdgeCast
• Senior Information Architect in New York at SapientNitro
• Content Manager in Santa Clara at NVIDIA
• Firefox Project Manager in San Francisco at Mozilla

This week was all about taking a problem and applying lessons from other disciplines to answer it. Whether the topic be the sales funnel, content marketing or facing the challenges of Enterprise 2.0, our contributors used their unique perspectives to tackle the questions.

This time, Basecamp makes it personal. The project management software is spinning off a new platform for outside-of-work use, called Basecamp Personal. 

With the working year now kicking off it's a perfect time for SharePoint business managers and administrators to make their New Year's resolutions. Whether you're looking after an intranet, collaboration portal, website, DMS, BI portal -- or all of these -- here's a few ideas to help you with the process of figuring out your priorities for the year, based on some of the more common personal resolutions we all make at the start of the year.

Blogs, wikis, activity feeds and other user-generated content are turning intranets into vibrant internal social networks. But what should be done with all that content, much of which gets old fast? In the newest version of its software, social intranet software vendor ThoughtFarmer has released a new archiving tool just for that purpose.

You’ve been promised collective intelligence, but there’s more. Complexity is both the problem and -- if properly understood -- the solution.

It’s been a slow start this year in terms of predictions and lists. Normally at this stage in January we have to stop looking at them. There are many possible reasons why this year is different, the most likely reason however could be the economic uncertainty and how businesses will deal with it this year. That said, Gartner has still been able to identity a top ten digital technology wish-list for 2013.

Microsoft bought out the enterprise social network company Yammer, for a reported US$ 1.2 billion last June, announcing plans to add Yammer to its SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 application. It has also been selling Yammer packages at such a low price point that only massive sales will recoup its investment.

Microsoft clearly thinks that they are on a big business software winner by acquiring Yammer.

It's Friday, we've got a list, let's do this. Fortune magazine dropped its list of the 100 best places to work, and since none of us work at these companies, let's pick the list apart to see how terrible it is, or not, to work for these companies.