Microsoft design point is to co-mingle structured collaboration tools alongside social computing tools - it's unrealistic to think of social computing disconnected from collaborations strategies Microsoft also thinks of the IT Pro ... Microsoft believes SharePoint scales to meet as narrow or broad a view an organization has on social computing, you can use it in a very classic Notes from Christian Finn, Director, Social Computing 13 sessions in "social track"

I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group: No Jitter | Microsoft: Gurdeep's UC Predictions single identity with presence at the core is spot on - but it makes you wonder why Microsoft does not openly share its rich presence information? 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but.

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Interesting - but I remain quite skeptical - especially regarding "MOSS 2007 as your default option for enabling and managing social networks for business use". This situation can influence decision-making - people may prefer to evolve with Microsoft over the next couple of years as they figure this space out - especially for internal deployments. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta

this type of integration could help people understand what the resulting user experience would be like. Despite this plug-in, I still believe IBM has made a fundamental and perhaps unrecoverable competitive mistake by not being radically more aggressive regarding SharePoint integration. The window for IBM to have entrenched itself in "SharePoint shops" for social computing is just about closed in my opinion given that Microsoft will begin talking about the next version Well-worth your time checking out the demo (just follow the link below). If you are using SharePoint but are

I really do enjoy seeing this type of innovation coming from Microsoft - the SharePoint team could learn a lot by working more closely with these folks - and consider leveraging their solutions for the next release of SharePoint. Brier Dudley's blog | Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids | Seattle Times Newspaper It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine -- a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle -- could be a contender. Vine is a hyperlocal, personalized

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The Microsoft case provides a view on how far information can travel via weblogs, as well as an idea of challenges of misinterpretation it can bring. Integratio This is a piece from the current version of final chapter of my dissertation where I discuss blogging across various boundaries.  It draws heavily on the conceptual categories from the work of Etienne Wenger on communities of practice ( Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity , 1998) and on the discussion with CPsquare members about those . ***

Awareness Makes a Smart Move with Its Facebook Integration by Bill Ives May 5, 2008 at 7:12 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Last week I had an interesting conversation with Eric Schurr, VP of Marketing and Direct sales at Awareness . We discussed their recently announced Facebook integration through their Awareness Facebook Application Framework. I have written about Awareness a number of times here and elsewhere (see Awareness – Enterprise 2.0 Social Media Platform ).

About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase 7 Tips for improving productivity through web-based software Telligent Releases an Integrated Suite of Collaboration Tools with High Powered Metrics by Bill Ives July 17, 2009 at 3:11 am · Filed under Web 2.0 Telligent is an enterprise collaboration and community software company that offers a social software suite for both public and internal-facing online communities. products also

If there's good news - at least Microsoft realizes that the intersect between social media / social networking and CRM is important to address. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Announces New Solution Accelerators: CRM Accelerators have exceeded 50,000 downloads to drive customer and partner value. This accelerator delivers integration with Twitter; other networks will be introduced in future releases. I'm still catching up with my backlog of news, feeds, etc - but this caught my attention - but not in a good way - it seems to be a fairly feeble attempt to cover the brand monitoring / reputation space.