Enterprise Collaboration News, Reviews

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.

Enterprise mobile apps enable organizational transformation and have become essential tools for any company seeking operational efficiency. A new Aberdeen research brief, “Enterprise-Grade Mobile Apps -- Powering Organizational Transformation,” provides some hard data to support the assertion that mobile apps now qualify as business-critical technology.

I attend quite a few SharePoint conferences, and I’ve never been to a bad one, but they all have different approaches and emphasize different things. The SHARE conference in Atlanta next week definitely has a different approach than other conferences.

Too often when a woman in tech opens her mouth, she gets slammed.

Following the release of its updated content and team collaboration platform, Atlassian Confluence 5.0, Atlassian has announced a new tool, Blueprints which aim to improve the functionality of the Confluence product.

Most of us have to put up with airline travel several times a year. Few of us look forward to it. Some of us actively dread it. And yet, does the flying experience have to be something we dread?  

Does Yammer help lead to more productive workers? The Microsoft-owned enterprise social networker has released a new survey, conducted by an independent firm, that says “yes.” 

Things certainly got heated during yesterday's Tweet Jam! So, what did our experts have to say about gamification and challenges surrounding employee engagement? Read part two of our Tweet Jam Recap to find out.

For this week’s mobile app of the week, we look at our final employee engagement app with the mobile version of the enterprise social network, Yammer.

If you attended yesterday's #SocBizChat about employee engagement, you know it was a lively event. There was much debate about what employee engagement is, what it entails, what makes it work, how to measure it and what can keep it from flourishing.

Windows 8 support has been included in a couple of updates for the Novell ZENworks Mobile Management (BYOD) and application virtualization suites.

More than 90% of companies now have at least one staff member with “social media” as part of their job description. Nearly 60% have at least four employees who use social media professionally. Those takeaways in a new report on the State of Corporate Social Media, from the Useful Social Media group, give some idea of social media’s penetration into company culture. 

"Any company trying to compete … must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.” -- Jack Welch