is more about how social software is used by people vs. At one point (late nineties/early 2000's), Microsoft sometimes used the term "directed collaboration" in this regard while IBM talked about contextual collaboration as the "fuzzy front-end" of process-centric work. Social Software still needs a definition: Unfortunately, we (the industry at-large) use the term but I'm not sure we're all on the same page when it comes to what the terms means. A partial list of points-to-ponder: Enterprise 2.0

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 single identity with presence at the core is spot on - but it makes you wonder why Microsoft does not openly share its rich presence information? 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is a disappointing platform for social computing in my opinion. My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. Either Microsoft "gets it right" and delivers a forward-looking release with significant improvements that transforms SharePoint into a market-leading social computing platform, or it delivers a release that has only incremental improvements to existing 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

amp; Social Software , I wanted to provide a background context on some of the areas where Enterprise 2.0 Social Software lacks definition. is about when it comes to use of social software. We too easily constrain social software to specific tools which leaves the door open to ambiguity and vendor posturing. In my last post, Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & remains ambiguous:

Thomas Vanderwal posted an article on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 that has caught traction on other blogs ( Sharepoint as a Gateway Drug to Greater Efficiency... ) were a product check-list, life would be so easy, unfortunately it's not... - "emergent use of social software" - gets to how social software is used, not so much what it is - From a deployment perspective - Microsoft adopted an explicit bottoms-up and on Twitter. I

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innovation Creators Successful innovation is not about the ideas or inventions; it’s about the people. About Videos Whitepapers Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software October 10th, 2006 There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology. Ross Mayfield calls it Social Software in the Enterprise . I called part of it Web Office . Ismael Ghalimi called it Office 2.0 .

It is based on Microsoft Silverlight, and even though it’s only in technical preview, the app is quite impressive. Tags: Screencasts Software Apps collaboration redliner screencas Written by Simon Mackie . If you need to collaborate on a document with someone, you can simply email a Word document back and forth, but that can get messy as it’s hard to keep track of the various versions of the document moving around.