How Microsoft and Jive Might Get Microblogging Wrong
Microsoft SharePoint and Jive SBS are the two biggest players I know of in the one-size-fits-all enterprise collaboration world. Thanks to the two year lag between consumer web product innovation and enterprise collaboration followup, we now see microblogs gaining recognition as a must-have feature for the biggest players in this market.
This is great news but there’s [read more...]
Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is this Facebook cofounder’s enterprise spinoff still coming?
Today’s announcment of Salesforce “Chatter” as a SaaSy enterprise Facebook product adds another option to the red-hot market for enterprise social platforms modeled on Facebook. Regular readers will remember that I called out ”Internal Facebooks” as the #1 collaboration trend for 2009 in a post last month.
We’re still waiting to hear from Asana, the business collaboration [read more...]
Hot collaboration trends in 2009: Internal Facebooks, SharePoint microblogging, expert location, and homegrown wikis
Even though Sharing at Work hasn’t been quite as frantically busy in 2009 as it was in 2008, people still keep Googling their way here to check out the archives. It’s a good practice to track the topics that are drawing the most public interest so we can figure out which powerful themes in [read more...]
Three Reasons To Be Excited About Facebook’s Acquisition Of Friendfeed
Image via CrunchBase
Thanks to yesterday’s news of a $50M acquisition we can be sure that Friendfeed’s excellent ideas are finally going to be seen and appreciated by the mainstream web users on Facebook. While many of the FriendFeed faithful are nervous about the coming assimilation, there are still plenty of reasons to be happy [read more...]
Memphis social media calendar: Start a business, learn about the semantic web, meet interesting people!
Memphis skyline via Wikipedia
Starting in fifteen minutes…
The May edition of Social Media Expedition’s Memphis “TwilightCamp“. From the site:
[T]he after hours version of our Expedition breakfasts. It’s a little more casual, but still packed with information and networking opportunities. There will be plenty of time to catch up with your Memphis social community…
Next weekend…
Startup Weekend Memphis [read more...]
