Friday Vendor Roundup: Socialtext, Lithium Technologies, Salesforce
Every Friday I’m going to attempt to summarize any relevant news in the future of work/collaboration space. I’ll provide the name of the vendor, a short summary of what the announcement or piece of news is with a link to the original, and finally a short POV. I can’t cover every single thing that comes […]
This CEO Isn’t Afraid to Take on Jive Software or Salesforce.com
Yammer thrives. The herd mentality around the enterprise activity stream is driving its competitors to emulate their every move. Jive’s done it. So has Salesforce.com, SocialText, Newsgator, Moxie Software and IBM Connections. From the Fortune 500 to the Fortuneless company of one, the activity stream is supplanting email for many forms of business communication. What’s […]
What You Can Learn About Enterprise Collaboration from the American Hospital Association
A few weeks ago at Enterprise 2.0, I had the privilege of meeting Karthik Chakkarapani from the American Hospital Association who actually presented at the conference. I, unfortunately, was not able to attend but I did have several conversations with Karthik who sent me his presentation, which I think is just great! Karthik walked through […]
Thoughts from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference- June 2011
I just came back from the E2.0 conference in Boston which as usual was a fantastic gathering of really great and smart people. I arrived late Monday evening and had meetings pretty much all day on Tuesday. I had the opportunity to attend a few sessions on Wednesday and made sure to get plenty of […]
More than just another microblogging tool – tibbr
Earlier this week I attended the UK launch event for just another Twitter style microblogging tool for the enterprise like Chatter or Yammer or Signals inside SocialText. This one’s called tibbr. Some people would have been underwhelmed and said “so what?”, but I got excited – I can see some huge potential here, and I’d […]
Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use
An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention. In essence SocialText announces that they’ll sell their product at 80% of Yammer’s price (being very brief here) but I think they’re both wrong. Social has its own Pareto rule: 90-9-1 versus the old-fashioned 80-20. It means that 1% of people creates […]
Competitors Rush to bring the Latest Timesinks to the Enterprise
It’s nice to see competitors come together to bring the most popular timesinks productivity boosters to the Enterprise. We’ve long been predicting Foursquare would soon hit the Enterprise, and no the wait is over, with Atlassian releasing Fourwalls. There’s a lot we can learn from this app – otherwise how would I know that @barconati […]
Enterprise 2.0 Trends: Which vendors are in the running?
While doing some Enterprise 2.0 vendor research, we discovered some interesting trends from the E2.0 space. Using Google’s Double-Click Ad Planner, we were able to establish a general picture of the companies’ overall traffic. It’s still very early in the Enterprise 2.0 race, but Yammer appears to be the best horse on a muddy track. […]
Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration
Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel – two of the leading lights in Enterprise 2.0 (that is experience in actually doing it rather than merely talking about it) presented this session. Their aim with the session was to move from “pontification to real world discussions” – a noble objective. In discussing “the Big Idea” around Enterprise […]
The Evolution Of Project Management And Zoho Projects 2.0
Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components (see our previous PM 2.0 coverage). Project Management tools have evolved very much from the days of traditional approach using Microsoft Project. It is only natural to evolve from the traditional tools that actually didn’t help much […]
Twitter-like Tools for the Enterprise
Live blogged from the Enterprise 2.0 conference, Boston. From the program – There’s no question that Twitter and micro-blogging in general are fast becoming the Web 2.0 communications media of choice. But as we’ve seen with other Web2.0 technologies, significant questions loom around the viability of these tools in a business environment. Will micro-blogging become […]
SocialText Becomes Really Social
Socialtext, the enterprise wiki company is no more… a wiki company, that is. Not since Socialtext 3.0, the new release announced today. Founder and Chairman Ross Mayfield calls his new baby a Connected Collaboration Platform, that’s modular, built on a widget framework, and consists of: Socialtext Dashboard – your Communication Central Socialtext People – Facebook […]
