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With the advent of SharePoint 2013 and Yammer integration, companies have struggled to monitor and manage the integration, adoption and usage of the collaboration platforms deployed across the enterprise. SharePoint Administrators are having a difficult time gathering meaningful metrics on SharePoint and Yammer usage and adoption.
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The social software market is dynamic and growing. It's customer rather than vendor driven, and grew by 15 percent last year, according to Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. In the past, customers were primarily concerned with product maturity and support.
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Kato.im, a business communication service provider, just announced the launch of its new product, Kato Teams — a free professional chat solution offering live 1:1 and group messaging, file sharing and search capabilities. It's designed to improve the efficiency of business communication, according to the Oakland, Calif.-based company.
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Jive, the enterprise social collaboration vendor, has announced its Summer Cloud Release, which aims to optimize productivity in the enterprise.
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According to Forbes "the average person spends 13 hours a week just reading and processing email.” But over the past few years things have started to change. In-app communications is trying to take people out of their inboxes by sending messages within the context of specific applications.
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What differentiates the companies that capture the full value of social technologies from those that do not? These organizations are usually successful because their leaders don’t see social technology as just another tool or a new shiny object, but as a catalyst for organizational transformation and an opportunity to gain
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The Rippling Out of Networks Consider how you operate at work. Perhaps you are a creative, a graphic designer in a large agency.
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Bob Zukis has been a busy CEO since taking over Bloomfire in April. He and the enterprise collaboration provider are at it again this week with some updates to the platform in the areas of content creation, discovery, community and mobile.
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The ESN crickets have been chirping for some time, because corporate social networking software is now a commodity, not a community. Disappearing are the days of hoping for ideation, serendipitous discovery, executive dialogue with worker-bees, and earning millions of dollars from new product ideas gleaned from conversations.
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It’s the summer of 2014 and enterprise social networks are as hot in the market as they were a year ago. But there remain a handful of persistent myths and half-truths that organizations still encounter on the path to “working like a network.
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A hierarchy of managers made sure that plans were followed and executed. The role of management was to execute the business model as efficiently as possible, focusing on cutting cost in order to increase market share through competitive pricing and increase profits and returns to shareholders.
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Microsoft is heavily promoting the idea of working like a network -- connecting to people across geography and time to collaborate. This comes as no surprise given the heavy investment in technology Microsoft has made in products that connect people together in social networks.
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Tools or no tools, we've been talking about people and talent being a hot commodity. IBM believes it has tools that can lead to the right people -- and keep those people happy. The Armonk, N.Y.
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. -- Michael Jordan A silo is something that divides us from others. It is a set of people that is disconnected from other parts of the organization. A functioning organization has a purpose and a mission to achieve.
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