Social News & Articles

2011 was the year of the Social Business. We saw employees across all types of organizations using both desktop-bound and mobile social tools to interact with the entire business ecosystem. But, while there's no question about organizations increasingly using these tools to collaborate and communicate, were enterprises truly able to capture their full potential? Let's take a look back at a few highlights from the past year.

We technologists, business executives and marketers are fans of a well-crafted buzzword that means nothing but embodies everything. Phrases like "the cloud," "web service" and "web 2.0" escape easily through our lips and effortlessly from our keyboards to fill pages of blogs and hours of conferences. Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another term to stir those feelings, enterprise 2.0 is growing up and taking center stage. 

Today sees the kickoff for Internet World 2011 and we'll bring you all the news and events throughout the three days of speeches, keynotes, news and any rumors or gossip that emerges.

The world of big data keeps getting more interesting. Opani has released what it is calling a social supercomputing platform that allows users to analyze large datasets in the cloud or locally. Best of all, it’s free for public applications.

This week Google aimed to change the way we consume content with a few significant alterations to Blogger. Meanwhile, a new social, Facebook-y feature was added -- very quietly -- to Labs. 

Remember when MySpace was the number one social site? Soon we might be asking if we remember it at all. The cut of 47% of employees (or 500 people) earlier this week, sends the signal that MySpace is in trouble.

RockMelt (news, site) has started sending out beta invites to test its social-friendly browser. Is this really the shape of things to come?

If you were the CIO of a corporation would you be worrying about or at least focusing on social? Why or why not? I explore that question and speak with a few folks on the topic, the answers may surprise you.

There's a lot of activity in the open source portal space lately. Today eXo (news, site) released eXo Platform 3.0, the latest version of their Java-based enterprise portal offering. Let's take a look at what it has to offer.

Southern hospitality meets social media this Friday, September 25 as practitioners from all over the southeast converge in Atlanta, GA to extol the business value of social media.

With all the talk of new solutions, new technologies and new versions of technologies, it would be hard to imagine that a considerable number of companies are still having problems with the basics of digital asset management (DAM).

That would appear to be one of the primary conclusions of a new report released by the Aberdeen Group (news, site) for Widen, a provider of web-based digital asset management applications. The report says that only half of Best-in-Class organizations (53%) indicated they currently have searchable access to content.

CMS Watch has a pretty interesting content management vendor map (see link below), laid out in the format of a subway map, which makes for intriguing viewing. The diagram is overtly enterprise-oriented, and links vendors according to their scope of operations across various content management arenas like Enterprise CMS, email archiving, DAM, XML management, etc.

It’s interesting to note that there are five main ‘Hubs’ — extending the subway metaphor — of vendors who can provide pretty much everything. Microsoft, IBM, OpenText, EMC and Oracle.

PaperThin has announced the release of CommonSpot Version 5.0, the latest upgrade to the company’s flagship Web CMS.

The release introduces a new authoring interface that includes RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, XML publishing and rendering capabilities.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

Microsoft has release service pack two (SP2) for Office Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). There’s no big excitement here save for sys admins who might be tired of SPS/WSS stability and performance issues.