
The global economy may be imploding, but the flow of investment capital into the social media space shows no sign of recession. Intel Capital continues the trend by taking a US$ 20 million stake in Telligent Systems.

Microsoft did it for SharePoint, Clickability did it for their CMPublish platform. Now it's Telligent's turn. Time to plan for a new conference. It's called in.telligent 2008 and it's happening in Dallas, Texas October 20-22, 2008. An opportunity to put your social media learning to use.

The Enterprise 2.0 conference has kicked into full swing and Microsoft seems to plan on taking center stage. They have already laid out a number of new announcements that give it's flagship content management system SharePoint an overflow of social networking options.