Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

I often catch the train to work and it’s depressing to see the perennial look of gloom on the commuter faces each morning. Work is this huge chore that must be endured, Mondays are the worst day of the week, the weekend cannot come quickly enough and retirement is the holy grail that we all work towards.

The other day, I read an article about a new communication technology described as being so revolutionary that “time and space have been annihilated to a very remarkable extent.” The article was from 1860 and it was referring to the Pony Express.

Now more than ever attracting, motivating and retaining top talent is vital to a success of a company and the key to it all is engagement. 

There's been a lot of talk about Gamification lately, and while I'm no expert, I'd like to take some time to explain why I just don't get it, why I don't think I ever will, and why I think the current treatment of the subject is overblown and heading into "trendy fad" territory.

Unsure where gamification can best be used within your company? Still figuring out how to establish a real measurement of employee engagement? Unclear which direction to take with the Yammer/SharePoint roadmap? Contemplating a move to the cloud but haven't thought out your governance strategy? This week's contributors have got you covered.

Keeping with our employee engagement theme, this week’s Mobile App of the Week is Socialcast, which is designed to act a social networking and communication platform for those who use Socialcast Communities.

As companies adopt new tools to help turn themselves into social businesses, why not build on the digital tool everyone already uses -- email? That’s the question IBM must have been asking, and this week it announced “the industry’s first fully integrated social mail solution.” 

Bitrix, maker of Bitrix Site Manager and the Bitrix24 on-premises social intranet, has released a new version of its free, cloud-based Bitrix24. Launched last year and available free for companies of no more than 12 employees, the newest online version now comes with a native project management toolset.

Social business consulting firm Dachis Group has raised US$ 7.5 million in venture funding, and the company plans to use the cash to build up its big data social analytics capability.

PeopleLinx, provider of engagement and analytics software for LinkedIn, has received US$ 3.2 million in Series A funding from Osage Venture Partners, Greycroft Partners and MissionOG, among other strategic angel investors. PeopleLinx says it will use the investment to accelerate growth with Fortune 1000 customers.

If you had asked me four years ago how successful social business concepts would be in German companies, I would have answered very cautiously.

With the announcement of the Yammer integration roadmap a question remains: which direction should your company choose?

The Google Drive cloud storage service now offers a real-time API designed to allow developers to place Google Drive’s real-time collaboration capabilities into their apps. These capabilities include network communication, storage, presence and conflict resolution.

Expectations run high for the role of intranets in employees daily work routine, but if they aren't meeting these six requirements, they're falling short. 

Last month I wrote an article that stated SharePoint, as a brand, would soon disappear. It seems with Microsoft's recent announcement regarding its plans for Yammer, I have been proved correct.