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. IBM and Microsoft). Twitter in the Workplace Twitter Compared to IM, Email and Forums

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"

Instant messaging has not taken off in the enterprise as have other communication tools, such as e-mail. 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. 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., This number might be off a little - but compared to e-mail for instance - deployment of enterprise IM has been disappointing given that the technology has been around for about a decade.

I am at a Microsoft event in Christchurch (New Zealand), co-presented by Intergen New Zealand . The event is focused on how to use various Microsoft technologies for emergency response. You can learn more about the initiative at Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture, at www.microsoft.com/csa . The architecture describes how to use various Microsoft technologies to support agencies and organizations focused on citizen safety. There's about 50 people here for the 2 hour session.

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

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 Analysts and associations will begin to hold vendors accountable for delivering true unified communications, which includes--at a minimum--a single identity with presence at the core, a single inbox, unified management, developer tools, and a unified user experience 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who

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Integration with Microsoft Communicator and IBM Sametime 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. For instance, can Microsoft exploit its acquisition of Parlano and deliver it as a Twitter-like service within OCS and can IBM expand Sametime to emulate the application behaviors of Twitter-like tools. There are several emerging (e.g., ESME, Laconica (open source), OraTweet (Oracle), SocialCast,

/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 why examples like IBM and Microsoft have arisen: users opt in to hegemony. I offer a thought about deductive openness, by which I mean a path of low resistance for developers of application.

/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