I've posted a lot recently regarding enterprise social messaging ("Twitter for the enterprise"): Social Messaging & Socialtext Signals: Before We Get Too Excited... Right now, enterprise instant messaging is dominated by IBM and Microsoft. The door I believe Twitter in the Workplace Twitter Compared to IM, Email and Forums

Instant messaging has not taken off in the enterprise as have other communication tools, such as e-mail. One of the older reasons I used to hear from clients years ago was the question of "need" - e-mail was already deployed, and e-mail messages arrived in "near time", so what was the extra value (i.e., We are now seeing “Twitter clones" (sometimes called micro-blogging or social messaging) targeting the enterprise and it would not surprise me if these tools outpace enterprise At one time, IBM quoted that Sametime had around 20 million seats and Microsoft has said that it has around 10 million seats of Enterprise IM deployed.

A few weeks ago I spoke with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ , about their enterprise micro-messaging experiences. This excellent concept could be a separate blog post but the story today is about their micro-messaging experiences. He decided with micro-messaging that he would not try a pilot program but simply start and lead by example. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Samuel is located in the Netherlands and his responsibilities include both the information architecture for structured data

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e-discovery), compliance and other burdens placed on enterprise IM. (Added after posting): One thing I forgot to mention - there will be a race of sorts between IM vendors/products and these social messaging tools. Instant Messaging Social Softwar There are several emerging (e.g., ESME, Laconica (open source), OraTweet (Oracle), SocialCast, Present.ly, and Yammer, etc.)

/Message « Blogs Go Mainstream: Advertising Toilets | Main | Stowe Boyd » September 05, 2007 The Architecture of Sociality: Building In Openness by Stowe Boyd A lot of discussion boiling recently about openness in social applications (like the Bill Of Rights movement manifesto and supporting comments , and Brad Fitzpatricks Thoughts On The Social Graph . This is how Yahoo and Microsoft now support interoperability in their instant messaging solutions today, although through some custom gateway, and no one else is invited

/Message « Om Malik on Social Networks And Scale | Main | Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, and Scalar Freedom » June 14, 2008 Overload, Schmoverload: The Myth Of Personal Productivity by Stowe Boyd The newest attack on connectedness and whole brain attention is here, spouting conventional wisdom as gospel: [from Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast by Matt Richtel] The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. A typical information

These points also reflect comments I hear often from enterprise IT groups (architects, infrastructure planners, etc) concerning introduction of new messaging/communication tools. do expect that vendors putting together unified communications and collaboration platforms will be forced to address the type of social messaging represented by tools such as ESME. Twitter-like tools will not have a free-ride Dennis raised a credible perspective in a comment to my entry on " Enterprise Twitter ". I

The November 2009 edition of Messaging News Magazine is out, with my article entitled Archiving and eDiscovery for Collaboration Systems (starting on page 14): " Archiving and eDiscovery for email are a well-understood, even if not so well-practiced set of requirements; but compared to the current status of archiving and eDiscovery for collaboration systems, it’s the gold standard. There are also examples from courts where email evidence has been critical, and given the back-and-forth conversational and interactional nature of email, archiving email messages is not hard.

I caught a couple of blog posts on the IBM Keynote for UC ( Lotusphere Message: Yes There Is a UC ROI ) and then one on the Sametime blog (see below). Tags: Instant Messaging Unified Communications Web Conferencin A few good tips and examples but also some "buyer beware" tactics that folks should be aware of. Overall - I give IBM 3 Thumbs-Up and 5 Thumbs-Down: