Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

Who wants to be a loser? No one.

If we look at all of the communities we are part of, it might look like an infinite field of overlapping VENN diagrams. I look at community creation as a labor of assisted self-discovery -- the community you wish to create already exists, but the members just don't know it yet.

Social computing is changing the world -- but there's a problem.

Has the massive investment in SharePoint lived up to its promise as the uber-collaboration platform for the enterprise?

Social collaboration software provider eXo is releasing version 4.0 of its open source Enterprise Social Platform. eXo says the platform will offer numerous collaborative features and an intuitive user interface (UI).

Since the upgrade of Office 365, we've seen our fair share of commentaries and criticisms of SharePoint Online. But what about Microsoft? What does it think the strong points are? In a recent blog post, Mark Kashman, a Senior Product Manager on the SharePoint team, outlined his thoughts.

When it comes to most enterprise social, collaboration, information management issues,  the key indicator as to whether it will be successfully integrated or not is if a company’s mindset can be changed to accept, adopt and adapt accordingly. So when it comes to executive leadership, it isn’t surprising that changing one’s mindset about how to govern can be the key to cultivating successful relationships, ideas and innovation.
 

Collaboration in the cloud is great, but what if your company has strict security, privacy or compliance regulations? For that market, cloud collaboration provider Teambox is releasing its Teambox On-Premise. 

Online project management software provider, Wrike has announced a new feature for its Live Editor that allows users to track document changes as they happen.

Microsoft recently announced its phased approach for integrating Yammer with SharePoint 2013, so it will be much later this year before we see any meaningful work completed to bring the two platforms together. But in the meantime, users can look forward to easier access to Yammer from within Office 365 and SharePoint Online.

Engagement for engagement’s sake is not very interesting.

The ultimate promise of the Social Enterprise is to build an environment that allows people to work and communicate together no matter where they are -- physically and structurally.

When I look at my history of blogging and talks, I realize that employee engagement is the single thread that ties my perspectives together --  it's a topic near and dear to my heart. I believe that without meaningful change in employee engagement, our efforts to gain value from social business are completely lost.

Over 3,500 executives responded to a McKinsey & Company report on the networked enterprise, and not only are social tools now mainstream at those companies, the leaders are seeing outsize results.

“Digital Workplace Trends 2013,” a report based on surveying 362 organizations worldwide, shows that digital workplaces are in very early days.