Social Networking, Social Engagement News & Guidance

For this week's Mobile App of the Week, we are taking a look at CanWeNetwork, a business networking assistance application.

Our LinkedIn world has gotten a bit smaller today. That's because members can now use mentions to draw other people into conversations.

Does Yammer help lead to more productive workers? The Microsoft-owned enterprise social networker has released a new survey, conducted by an independent firm, that says “yes.” 

Posts on Facebook are about to get a lot more conversational with the announcement of two features that enable users to engage a little more. Those features are: replies, comments.

Social network Facebook has made two subtle changes to its website in updating the cover photos policy and adding a reply button to pages and profiles.

In its continued effort to become more than just a resume-posting site, LinkedIn is reported to be in the process of buying Pulse, which makes a popular, free mobile news reader.

In all the strife around HP, the Autonomy acquisition and the fuss around trying to integrate Autonomy’s principal product IDOL into HP’s portfolio, it is often forgotten that Autonomy had other products. One of them was the augmented reality platform Aurasma, which today enters v2.0.

Social networks like Facebook and Google+ may have much larger membership bases than LinkedIn, but LinkedIn's steady run has proven why it beats them both in the business world. It's become a real battle among the three companies, and LinkedIn's success keeps the other two innovating and hustling.

There’s certainly not even a remote bit of controversy in saying that customers are truly the lifeblood that sustains the survival of businesses today. But are you doing everything you can to stay connected?

A new social networking platform, Branch aims to improve the way people communicate online by encouraging more meaningful conversations.

Being digitally social isn't a practice that's relegated to staying in touch with friends and family, it can extend to other areas, including education and skills training. That's where Cisco comes in. 

Unlike other social networks, LinkedIn has grown its memberships slowly and steadily. While other networks usually have taken five years to reach the 100 million mark -- LinkedIn took eight years, only reaching the mark in 2011. However, when it comes to crossing the 200 million member threshold, they’re right on schedule. So what does 200 million members look like and what helped them get there so speedily?

In 2012, the social media landscape got manicured. Many more prominent channels emerged and older ones became more refined as they worked to embrace where and how we engage, manage and otherwise share information. Still, even as the types of social media changed, the strategies used to engage fans, friends and followers stayed mostly the same. Here, we take a look at the social media channels that emerged and evolved throughout the year.

Social platform Ping.it launched in public beta today as an alternative communication and content sharing tool that combines social media and email.

In August, we illustrated the current state of SharePoint. As it is now December and time for retrospectives, we decided that we'd take a look back at what kept us most engaged about SharePoint this year -- SharePoint 2013.