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Social software provider NewsGator and Vizit, a social collaboration solution provider for SharePoint, announced that they've integrated their software to improve viewing, commenting and conversation abilities for SharePoint users.

Announcements continue to come from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA this week. Social software provider NewsGator has announced new integrations Microsoft Lync and Glassboard, which will move their users closers to managing their interactions in one location.

It’s a busy week everywhere, with Oracle and SharePoint’s annual conference. And there’s been a lot of document management too. Xerox has upgraded DocuShare, Oracle’s E-Business Suite has new invoice security, Autonomy has upgraded WorkSite, there’s mobile document management for iPad from NewSoft, while Colligo and NewsGator have teamed up for SharePoint functionality.

It's SharePoint time again as this year’s conference kicks off in Anheim, Calif., for four days of demonstrations and releases. With a more than a year gone since the release of SharePoint 2010, there are now dozens of releases of products to the market, and many more as this conference will show.

While SharePoint has been a leader in the document and content sharing category for some time, it has remained admittedly weak on the social media front. A number of companies from the third-party ecosystem are trying fill the gaps between the portal's strong points and shortcomings with infusions of popular functions, and we thought it would be useful to highlight a few of the top dogs:

Here’s a simple yet powerful trick for driving social computing technology adoption: kill your internal email for everybody in your organization.

NewsGator (news, site) adds a new module to its Social Sites for SharePoint collaboration solution. The focus this time is on recognition and rewards  and finding experts.

Many people like social networking, but hate the idea that it is not completely under their control, especially when it comes to how their information is handled. A new free service soon on the market will give you social networking, but on your terms.

NewsGator (news, site) introduced version 2 of its enterprise collaboration platform Social Sites 2010 last week, but it wasn't done with the enhancements. If you are looking for enterprise level video that includes social capabilities, then the Video Stream Solution package may be just the ticket.

Microblogging, activity streams and communities. These three elements are among the most popular within enterprise collaboration platforms, so they get a lot of special attention from vendors. NewsGator (news, site) has just updated all three in Social Sites 2.0 v2, so let's look at what's new and improved.

Each year KMWorld (news, site) publishes a list of the cream of the crop in knowledge management. "100 companies That Matter" includes favorites from practitioners, analysts, theorists and customers, recognizing orgs whose innovations have had significant impact on the constituency chain as a whole. 

NewsGator Tomoye 3.2 launched this week with news of its support for SharePoint Foundations 2010. Supporting a new management console, it makes maintaining communities of practice easier than before.

There are a number of really good innovation management solution available today. But does every organization need a full innovation management solution, or do they need come core capabilities built into their existing collaboration environment? 

When NewsGator (news, site) introduced Social Sites for SharePoint 2010, they adopted the module approach, allowing organizations to pick and choose the modules they wanted. Now there's one more module to add to the ever expanding list, and it's a new way to utilize RSS feeds.

This week, look with us into the mystic future of Enterprise 2.0. It's scary, volatile, and, if you've been alive for over a decade, very familiar.