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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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
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Friday, August 14, 2009
I have been a fan of NewsGator for some time as they were my first RSS reader in early 2004 (see Finally, I’m Scanning the Web through NewsGator) so I want to share my interview from the AppGap. then spoke with Greg Reinacker, their founder, in June 04 about their early enterprise use (see NewsGator’s Movement from Aggregator Application to Enterprise Platform ) and his blog was included as a case in my business blog book. I So I was very pleased to see that they have greatly expanded their offering beyond RSS to a comprehensive suite of social networking tools.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase 7 Tips for improving productivity through web-based software NewsGator Offers Social Sites ™: A Comprehensive Enterprise Social Networking Suite by Bill Ives August 3, 2009 at 3:44 am · Filed under Web 2.0 I have been a fan of NewsGator for some time as they were my first RSS reader in early 2004 (see F inally, I’m Scanning the Web through NewsGator ). then spoke
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
feeds might be used to deliver content to a site (corporate portal) without readers even being aware that the information they are viewing comes from a collection of back-end feeds - no large vendor has a feed syndication platform re: IBM, Microsoft or Oracle which might make some IT folks uneasy about relying on a small vendor for essential middleware).
Enterprise RSS at NewsGator is Alive and Well (NewsGator is doing the best of the lot (vs. The article below is interesting in that it does call out a dark truth - enterprise adoption of feed syndication tools has been lacking. However,
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
NewsGator today announced that it will acquire Tomoye, a vendor that has long focused on enabling collaborative communities within the enterprise. Tomoye has also been one of the vendors placing bets on SharePoint (as has NewsGator) so the deal is synergistic in that regard. In June 2008, I published a blog post Microsoft's Maturing Social Computing "EGO" , that outlined different ways that vendors could integrate with MOSS 2007 I've only come across Tomoye in governmental settings but the vendor has been in the community space for some time. NewsGator and Tomoye were both
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
NewsGator released an update to Social Sites, its SharePoint add-in for enterprise social networking.
"NewsGator NewsGator today unveiled a new version of Social Sites, its comprehensive enterprise social computing solution, giving organizations powerful new ways to work smarter and solve business problems faster.
NewsGator Social Sites lets companies activate a ‘Facebook for the Enterprise’ that delivers measurable business results. Advancing that mission, Social Sites 2.5 introduces new capabilities for optimizing the value of an enterprise social network, accelerating
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is a disappointing platform for social computing in my opinion. NewsGator) to augment what SharePoint has in terms of E2.0 My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. Either Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0 plans:
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
This is obvious and is something which IBM absolutely must execute on prior to Microsoft's O14 release. In fact, during Lotusphere 2008, I laid out such a scenario as part of the ongoing battle between IBM and Microsoft:
IBM can use Connections to compete with Microsoft by changing the focus to social computing rather than collaboration and content. One of the items I was hoping to hear at Lotusphere 2009 was outlined in a recent post by Guy Creese, Research Director of our Collaboration And Content Strategies group here at Burton. In his post, " Lotusphere 2009: What
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
or social computing area, it’s not Microsoft’s fault. can be implemented at a tooling level with Lotus Notes or Microsoft SharePoint, or one of the new fancy products. But then I have a book -- Seamless Teamwork -- published by Microsoft Press, that talks about how to do team collaboration with SharePoint. With SharePoint not giving Last week Thomas Vander Wal trashed SharePoint as an enterprise social computing platform in a blog post entitled SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools . He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise 2.0.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Many organizations have invested in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 as strategic infrastructure for content management and collaboration.
IBM, Jive) delivered social platforms that were far superior to what was delivered out-of-the-box by Microsoft. Microsoft partners (e.g., OK - this is all draft - nothing is final - everything below is a work-in-progress. I
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