Social Business, Social Enterprise News, Analysis

Nearly a year after announcing it, Salesforce has given a summer release date for its Chatter based Communities offering.

"Attending these non-stop meetings, doing these status reports and using that awful time tracking system is killing my ability to do my job. Why is it that talking about doing my job is more important than actually doing my job?" Sound familiar? Are you the one saying these words? Are these the rantings of the team around you? Does it seem like this sort of lament is the norm no matter the company, the industry or even the size of the enterprise?

Still on the fence about developing a BYOD policy for your organization? Worried about viruses, help-desk challenges, lost data and the DIY mentality that simultaneously comes with BYOD? Fear not.

Enterprise social networks is a ballooning sector, and the activity in this space picked up yet again this week with the release of Interact Intranet 7, a polished update on the intranet theme that includes search tools and a responsive design.

 The big changes by LinkedIn from April are rolling on into May with another raft of updates for the social business site. This time, a new update lets users add media content to their profile pages to better get a message or your skills across. 

Over two-thirds of IT professionals think demand for their services will continue to exceed the supply, but nearly half are worried about their long-term career prospects. That contradictory finding is one of the takeaways from IT staffing firm TEKsystems’ recently released survey of IT professionals.

Many people from the web industry have read and loved the recent classic Drive by Daniel Pink (or at least watched the fun and inventive video below). Not as many people, however, are familiar with exactly how to put the lessons from the book into practice within their enterprise. Fear not traveller; My aim in this article is to help provide a simple model where you can transfer a crucial piece of abstract understanding from Drive into concrete action in your daily work life.

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What will the 21st Century organizations aspire to?

If there are two things that fit together like a hand in a glove, it's collaboration and knowledge management. That's why Moxie Software's new Social Knowledgebase makes perfect sense.

As businesses evolve from being information or knowledge centered to being more people centered, SharePoint 2013 offers a range of features to support the shift. 

Tibco's social network tibbr has released an updated version of its mobile apps, and the new look should make the tablet version especially a bit more welcoming. The update also includes a rebuilt discovery engine, Sriram Chakravarthy, Tibco VP of engineering said in an interview.

In social enterprise circles, it has become fashionable to dismiss email as the way of the past and not the path to the future.

When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal’s integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems. 

In another small step forward for Outlook.com, Microsoft has announced that it is making Skype available through the Outlook.com interface. However, unless you are part of a small group of people in the UK that have been offered access to a small beta test, you will have to wait until a little bit later in the year for the new functionality.