Social Networking News & Articles

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference wrapped up in Boston last week. The key message coming out of this conference? It's not about the deployment of technology, it's about adoption. Along with the chance to see some interesting solutions, there were a number of sessions on getting started with these tools in your organization.

Remember us telling you that Tomoye (news, site) was demoing the latest version of their community solution at the Enterprise 2.0 conference? Well we finally got a little more detail on what's new in Communities 3.0. Take a quick walk with us through the community updates.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Journalists Don't See The Potential Twitter Has
• Social Network Use Growing and Growing
• EU: Social Networks Need To Beef Up Privacy Practices
• Does your CEO Participate in Social Media?

More news coming on the second day of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. Socialtext (news, site) is offering their hosted social networking solution for free for organizations of up to 50 people. Along with the new free offering, they also announce the public beta of their social spreadsheet solution: SocialCalc.

Tomoye (news, site) has a new version of their Community software available as a Public Beta starting today. Tomoye Community Software 3.0 is community and social networking application that can be deployed standalone or as an add-on for Microsoft SharePoint.

We gave you an overview of the current release of the community software back in November of last year. That version offered communities based on themes, expert classification, community metrics and a SharePoint powerpack.

The latest version, also being demonstrated at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston for the next three days, includes the ability to show information and people based on being voted most helpful or most connected. Community members also have a say on what's displayed on the community home page through voting.

That's probably not all this new version of Tomoye can do, but unless you sign up for their public beta, you can't seem to find much more information.

We'll be digging that up and bringing it to you as soon as possible. Until then, check them out at the Enterprise 2.0 conference or sign up for that public beta to see for yourself.

Get the feeling this isn't the only social networking, community announcement coming this week? Yeah, neither do we... Stay tuned!

In the mood for some free stuff? Of course you are. Surely banking on the idea that everyone loves to get something for nothing, Socialcast (news, site) recently announced a treat for their users: free networks.

Corporate social networks, that is. Effective immediately, employees of any company can visit Socialcast’s website and join their company’s private community using their corporate email address. Meanbwhile, administrators can enjoy free rights such as user access management and customization. The offering also comes with a handful of new features for added pizzazz.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Tools For Business Twitter Usage
• Claim Your Username on Facebook
• Social Networking on Mobiles is Hot
• Twitter Users Are Largely Anti-Social

Teragram (news, site) is a company that has taken on the brave challenge of turning sentiment into metrics. For any company that really wants to know what users think of its products, the Sentiment Analysis Manager could be the answer.

IBM and Microsoft will be forever entwined if Mainsoft (news, site) has anything to do with it. The provider of Java EE-Microsoft SharePoint integration software is constantly coming out with new ways to integrate SharePoint functionality with IBM solutions.

This time, they integrate SharePoint's social networking capabilities with IBM's Rational Team Concert.

Social media. This particular phenomenon is arguably the biggest thing on the Web right now, and it’s getting bigger every day. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine being active on the Web without somehow participating in social media.

But, on the off chance that you’ve completely missed the social media bus and you’re scrambling to figure out exactly why it’s taking the Web by storm, take solace in knowing that you’re not alone. John Stone of Crosstech Partners held a workshop at this year’s Gilbane SF Conference to explain the bare bone basics.

Statistically, Flock (news, site) is like the little browser that could, but didn’t. Translate that into numbers and you get 7.5 million people that have downloaded the browser, but only 1.1 million that actively use it.

So, why does Flock keep Flopping? Well, we’re not really sure. Dubbed the social Web browser, Mozilla-powered Flock is made up of all the things we typically love: integrated social networking, micro-blogging, chat, etc. Will the newly released 2.5 version be enough to finally take flight? Let’s take a look at the fresh features:

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Baby Boomers Turned Off By Facebook?
• Google 'Waves' To Unified Social Communication
• Social Media And It's Affect On Corporate Websites
• Twitter May Start a TV Show

Autonomy is all about getting meaning out of something, anything. So it's really not surprising that Autonomy Interwoven (news, site) has announced a new solution that provides analytics for social media solutions -- meaning based analytics that is.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Facebook Verified App Directory Now Live
• Flock is Updated With More Support for Twitter, Other Services
• Facebook Accepts OpenID
• Should You Switch Back To Yahoo! For Search?

Or so Ingeniux says with a new release called Cartella. What does Cartella do? The very basics of social networking, social content and web content management put in the same wagon.

CMSWire got a little Cartella tour from Ingeniux’s David Hillis, director of marketing and business development, and Nathan Eggen, director of technology – and this is what we’ve found out.