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

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

per year Link: [link] Read our review of Near-Time Socialtext Socialtext is a collaboration platform that allows everyone to work on the same page. Socialtext provides both a hosted service and a hardware / software appliance for installation. The basic account is free; check out the other plans . Supported file types: Text, Images Text chat: NO Revisions: YES March 1, 2007 Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion.

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

Thomas Vanderwal posted an article on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 that has caught traction on other blogs ( Sharepoint as a Gateway Drug to Greater Efficiency... ) From a deployment perspective - Microsoft adopted an explicit bottoms-up effort to sell SharePoint 2003 within large enterprises. As people begin to work natively with web-based content (blogs and wikis) they also still want (or need) to add word processing, and on Twitter. I

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The question in my mind is whether they emerge as extensions to existing unified communications platforms, or as a new class of tools (from vendors such as Yammer, ESME, Socialcast, Socialtext) that can sustain a competitive differential over time - and - satisfy the policy controls necessary to meet compliance and other demands. Vendors like IBM and Microsoft may not see enough of a critical mass (in terms of enterprise demand) to focus on social messaging. Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). It's a great question - my thoughts below:

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Cisco needs to compare/contrast its approach with Microsoft’s BPOS – not just e-mail but overall to equate synergies from other WebEx Collaboration Cloud services. Does Cisco believe that it is now competing in the portal market with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle? Does Cisco believe that it is now competing in the content management market with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle as well best-of-breed vendors like EMC? The following is Part 3 of a series on today's announcement by Cisco . Clarifications & Questions

Social Media and the Organization - Part 1 by Rob Paterson August 29, 2007 at 8:36 am · Filed under Charles Handy , Enterprise 2.0 , Social Media , SocialText , Web 2.0 Why is collaboration so hard in organizations? search, the user revolution, the future of content, and much, much more. Tune in here . About This site is a companion blog to the FASTforward conference and summit series and is sponsored by FAST , A Microsoft Subsidiary. Every organization that I know tells me that it is hard.