Yammer News & Articles

In case you hadn't noticed, tablets are taking over offices around the world. If one isn't already on your desk, here's a roundup of great apps that might convince you to go iPad in 2012, covering the essentials from analytics to content creation and CMS management.

If it's time for a change, we've got a shopping list of hot jobs in our spiffy little corner of the world. Our weekly featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week.

Yammer is widely known around the enterprise for building Facebook-like features into its social business layer, and today that trend continues with the release of the Activity Stream Ticker. The stream of information shows users what their colleagues are doing on Yammer, as well as a variety of new third-party services: Box.net, Zendesk, Spigit, TripIt, Badgeville and Expensify. 

Being able to chat in real-time across a variety of websites when you need help is a luxury afforded to us by companies like LivePerson. However, as companies expand their presence across continents and countries, real-time chat often finds itself thwarted by language barriers. Thanks to a partnership between Lionbridge and LivePerson, a powerful, integrated cloud-based multilingual chat application has been born.

eZ odoscope base functionality is now integrated into the eZ Publish Enterprise Edition CMS, giving customers an overview of site visitor usage and behavior.

Three major components of today's customer experience management efforts are the three "C's": Content, Community and Commerce. It goes without saying that all three are important for success in today's world of online commerce, but all too many implementations are ineffective because they ignore an unspoken, and perhaps the most important "C", the Convergence of each of these key areas.

Sometimes there doesn’t have to be whispers, daggers and backstabbing for there to be change in a major company. Such is the case at IBM where the board of directors has elected the senior VP and group executive for sales and marketing, Virginia M. Rometty, as president and chief executive.

You likely already have a profile on LinkedIn and you are linked to any number of people and companies. Same for Twitter, Facebook and a number of other social networks, which means there is probably a lot of information coming your way. What if you could take that information, combine it altogether and then search and filter to your hearts content to find business opportunities? GageIn says you can -- using its business information networking platform.

Yammer has raised another charming little pot of dough -- US$ 17 million -- thanks in part to Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's former Vice President of Growth, Mobile and International. The injection brings Yammer's total financing to US$ 57 million. 

Let's face it. Regardless of your preferred platform, the fact is that mobile devices are increasingly making their way -- and staying -- in the business setting. Whether you're gaining access to information en route to work, or if your work mostly involves mobility, you will be dependent on some applications to make things happen. We take a look at a few apps that help make the magic happen on your devices, whether you have an iPad, iPhone, Android smartphone or tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook, HP TouchPad or any other device.

Anyone who's familiar with Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff knows that he consistenly speaks about technology with notable enthusiasm, but somehow his keynote at this year's Dreamforce conference was even more so excited. In this edition of our weekly social business discussion, I'd like to focus on one statement that was particularly resonant: Collaboration is not an island. 

Social Business came up in conversation at one of the press events I attended this week, but instead of the usual it-is-the-best-thing-ever tone, I found myself in the midst of a group questioning why so many people still have an aversion to it. Specifically, we wondered why software modeled after Facebook is still worrying so many professionals when the benefits are exceedingly obvious. 

 I've said it before and I'll say it again: Yammer is hell-bent on being the central hub of the enterprise. Today's efforts come to us in the form of a collection of tools and social plug-ins. Officially deemed Yammer Connect, the bundle spreads social functionality across an organization's entire ecosystem by injecting company intranets and business applications with Yammer feeds.

You heard it right: Salesforce and Yammer are working together for the greater good of customer relationship management (CRM). But don't mistake this collaboration for an actual partnership -- it's very clear that the competition is still on. 

While SharePoint has been a leader in the document and content sharing category for some time, it has remained admittedly weak on the social media front. A number of companies from the third-party ecosystem are trying fill the gaps between the portal's strong points and shortcomings with infusions of popular functions, and we thought it would be useful to highlight a few of the top dogs: