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Your Take: SharePoint vs Yammer
Microsoft has revealed a bit of its SharePoint-Yammer roadmap, but questions still remain. Is it a question of SharePoint or Yammer? Or is SharePoint finally dead?

Google Hangout: Universal Social Standards
Business needs a way to value interactions across social media. Join us on March 28th at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 1600 GMT when we discuss the opportunities and challenges of universal social standards. Get your #CXMHangout details here.

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Unsure where gamification can best be used within your company? Still figuring out how to establish a real measurement of employee engagement? Unclear which direction to take with the Yammer/SharePoint roadmap? Contemplating a move to the cloud but haven't thought out your governance strategy? This week's contributors have got you covered.

Keeping with our employee engagement theme, this week’s Mobile App of the Week is Socialcast, which is designed to act a social networking and communication platform for those who use Socialcast Communities.

As companies adopt new tools to help turn themselves into social businesses, why not build on the digital tool everyone already uses -- email? That’s the question IBM must have been asking, and this week it announced “the industry’s first fully integrated social mail solution.” 

Bitrix, maker of Bitrix Site Manager and the Bitrix24 on-premises social intranet, has released a new version of its free, cloud-based Bitrix24. Launched last year and available free for companies of no more than 12 employees, the newest online version now comes with a native project management toolset.

Social business consulting firm Dachis Group has raised US$ 7.5 million in venture funding, and the company plans to use the cash to build up its big data social analytics capability.

PeopleLinx, provider of engagement and analytics software for LinkedIn, has received US$ 3.2 million in Series A funding from Osage Venture Partners, Greycroft Partners and MissionOG, among other strategic angel investors. PeopleLinx says it will use the investment to accelerate growth with Fortune 1000 customers.

If you had asked me four years ago how successful social business concepts would be in German companies, I would have answered very cautiously.

Nearly 800 North Americans responded to the CMSWire 2013 Salary Survey, and we've captured summary data and open ended questions to present a detailed story about our readership and what is happening in the workplace in our three sectors of Customer & Web Experience, Social Business and Information Management. 

With the announcement of the Yammer integration roadmap a question remains: which direction should your company choose?

The Google Drive cloud storage service now offers a real-time API designed to allow developers to place Google Drive’s real-time collaboration capabilities into their apps. These capabilities include network communication, storage, presence and conflict resolution.

Expectations run high for the role of intranets in employees daily work routine, but if they aren't meeting these six requirements, they're falling short. 

Last month I wrote an article that stated SharePoint, as a brand, would soon disappear. It seems with Microsoft's recent announcement regarding its plans for Yammer, I have been proved correct.

One of the big questions around Yammer after it was snapped up last June was what would, or could, Microsoft do with the social software? And what would it do with Yammer and SharePoint? Previously, it has said it would integrate them in three phases: basic integration, deeper connections and connected experiences. At Convergence yesterday, it gave more details about the integration roadmap.

One of the 12 principles of the Agile manifesto states that “The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self organizing teams.” But how do you encourage these teams to form and how do you ensure they are sustainable?