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 Twitter in the Workplace Twitter Compared to IM, Email and Forums

think it would be very helpful if the Socialtext folks could explicitly answer how Signals supports enterprise requirements for security, access controls, archive/logging (for audit, compliance, and records management), directory integration, and policy management overall (individuals, groups/roles). Without this type of information (despite the well-deserved media coverage), I'm afraid the product will be virtually dead-on-arrival for most organizations that have these requirements for other messaging/communication systems - they apply to these tools, regardless of what we call them (i.e.,

Socialtext announced two major product announcements today: Socialtext People and Socialtext Dashboard. Enter Socialtext People. Socialtext People isn't just an inside-the-firewall social networking tool. It's a networking tool that integrates with Socialtext wikis where people I'm excited about Dashboard, but People really rocks my world. A

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.

Users have access to the entire history of available messages either via searching or by paging through the history of activity. Socialtext (Vendor Supplied info) Socialtext provides an appliance that can be deployed behind the firewall for a high level of network protection. Yammer, despite multiple requests, did not respond to my earlier post on the need for tools in this category to support policy, integration, security and other capabilities expected by enterprise decision-makers. Someone mentioned identi.ca

Over 5,000 companies change faster with Socialtext. Learn More Login Social Networking People value, magnified Wiki Workspaces Easy knowledge sharing Weblogs Collaborative conversations Dashboard Personal home page Social Messaging Ambient awareness Spreadsheets Distributed spreadsheets Six Steps to Company- Wide Adoption Social software is changing in ways that profoundly impact the way companies should approach adoption. See the post by Michael Idinopulos , Socialtext VP of Customer Success. More More Info, Less

Many businesses (and many of the customers that Socialtext works with) struggle with this issue, namely whether the right culture is a prerequisite of Web 2.0 Read more | Permalink Leave a comment Name Email Address URL

Socialtext released new mobile device capabilities today , with device-optimized usage from a BlackBerry, iPhone, or Android smartphone. Socialtext released "Miki", for mobile device access to a wiki workspace some three ago; this is an update and substantial revision to its capabilities. Socialtext Mobile Capabilities When When connecting to a Socialtext workspace from the web browser on one of these devices, you can: - read and send signals, through Socialtext Signals.

Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM) Most systems allow instant messages to be logged. People not involved in the instant messaging or group chat session cannot view the content of those communications through the IM client applications. Email can be used for point-to-point communication as well as group communication (through distribution lists or by addressing the message to additional people). Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). It's a great question - my thoughts below:

Some good points in this post from Adina Levin (Socialtext). Within an enterprise, any type of "Twitter" system will be linked to directory systems in much the same way as e-mail and instant messaging systems are linked via address book synchronization techniques. Within the enterprise, this will be viewed as a messaging system. For the most part I agree but we're still in the phase were vendors are hyping the benefits and not being transparent regarding some of the "non-fun" aspects of making these systems acceptable for large enterprise environments. I I