Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

Less than two years after VMware snapped up SlideRocket, it is selling it off to ClearSlide, a presentation suite for sales teams.

One of the most unique and new organizational learning strategies is gamification. The theory arises from the increasing embrace of gamer culture as a whole with younger generations rising to take the reins left them by their predecessors.

I was recently talking to a colleague who has been tagged to lead innovation for his employer. I was taken slightly aback when he mentioned that some big name strategy consultants told him that creating a culture of innovation was intractable and that he was better off creating a team that popped innovative stuff out.

New technology moves into the enterprise slowly, and it's been no different for social software. Some companies are not ready to adopt social while others are cautiously optimistic, but even for those who are at the cutting edge, information still tends to become siloed, making it less useful and harder to find.

Following up on our review of the Social Features that are currently available within SharePoint 2013, let's highlight some of the features available within Yammer. This high level overview will get you thinking about the powerful things that your organization can do with the tools available within Yammer.

The focus on employee engagement has grown geometrically over the past five years, but many organizations still don't know how to approach this challenge.

In the second announcement in recent weeks by Microsoft in relation to localization and its major product lines, Microsoft has announced new translation capabilities for Yammer messages, enabling users to translate messages into their native languages.

Microsoft started the roll-out of the updated version of Office 365 for business users earlier this week. The upgrades are present in all elements of the suite and reflect a changing work environment that is now more mobile, social and collaborative than it was when the suite was originally launched 18 months ago.

As intranets grow in complexity, the importance and challenges of setting up an intranet governance structure grows in line -- but the benefits will be seen in the long run.

SaaS provider IntraLinks Holding Inc. has released IntraLinks VIA, an enterprise collaboration solution. With the solution, users will be able to work safely and efficiently in their network platform and business community knowing that their files are managed and shared through a secure system.

Women of America: Sheryl Sandberg wants you to lean in. Her new book, about which she has been touring and talking these past few days, (it launches on March 11) has been described as an “unapologetic manifesto” and a “bold crusade” aimed at addressing one of the world's biggest problems -- a lack of women in power.

Open source digital services provider Acquia has released Drupal Commons 3.0 to help with the creation and management of customer communities and social-driven applications.

Faster. That’s the key goal behind the new design and features in enterprise collaboration vendor Atlassian’s version 5.0 of its team collaboration platform, Confluence.

The nature of how we collaborate has evolved.

In another SharePoint related announcement this week, Socialtext announced three new points of integration between SharePoint and Socialtext, as more companies start preparing their product portfolios for the release of SharePoint 2013, expected for this quarter.