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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:

Cloud-based storage and collaboration provider Box.net (news, site) is making no secret of the fact that their document management philosophy lovingly embraces the mobile device world. Today they've launched new native applications for Android and Blackberry Playbook tablets, and a web-based HTML5 version of their apps for any HTML5-compliant mobile browser. Here's a closer look.

We all know what it’s like when our eyes are bigger than our stomachs. When your ideas are bigger than your technology, it can feel similar. What was I thinking? How is this not a viable option? Great ideas are only as rewarding as the ability to execute them successfully and now thanks to ON24, they just got easier, too.

ON24 is a provider of webcasting and virtual event solutions. Today, it's released a widget architecture and a set of application widgets designed to increase engagement, activity and functionality within the virtual event environment. 

This week in the Enterprise we saw a company revert back to a more private way of doing things while the dangers of information overload became excruciatingly more clear. 

Yammer (news, site) kicked out a new version of its integration with Microsoft SharePoint this week, adding notification alerts, profile syncing and light(er) weight embeddable feeds to the social layer.  

MangoSpring (news, site)  released version 4.0 of its business communication suite this week, introducing four major additions: a WYSIWYG Wiki, online document reader, new project management features, and new mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

The definition of a community has evolved tremendously and will continue to evolve in the future. Communities can be private or public, behind or in front of a paywall, professionally or independently run. However your community manifests itself, it’s driven by its purpose -- was it created to connect your business with your customers or the larger community? Or is it more narrowly defined? Do you want it to be private or public? What is the business purpose -- support, ideation, business process management or something else? Let’s take a look at some common use cases.

Enterprise collaboration service Flowr offers a simplifed design and mobile features that encourages communication and activity via a bright and uncomplicated layout.

While one side of the Enterprise was totally obsessed with buttons this week, the other side got a hot peek at some up and coming Apple goodness, more Yammer perks and a set of handy tools newly available to the iPad and iPhone.

Yammer (news, site) added two notable features to its business communication platform today: in-line videos within news feeds and recognition badges.

This week in the enterprise, popular collaboration platform Yammer announced three new integration tools that aim to take the company above and beyond its competition. Meanwhile, the share price for LinkedIn continues to climb into what could be scary territory.

Socialcast (news, site) aimed to put collaboration in context with the release of Reach in October of last year. Rather than creating a new space for collaboration, Socialcast Reach brings the conversation into already existing applications, such as SharePoint and CRM systems. This week, a new version of Reach was announced, adding a handful of features:

At a small press conference today in San Francisco, Yammer (news, site) revealed three suite additions that promote the integration of the product within systems of record: 

Lots of big news in the enterprise world this week, including Microsoft's very, very pretty penny for Skype and the release of Yammer Desktop 2.0. 

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• The Two Screen Movement Is Upon Us
• 7.5 Million Users of Facebook Are Younger Than 13
• Yammer Announces Integration with NetSuite
• Tumblr Adds Share Button, Becomes More Social-able