A number of large and small companies are making big bets on social business through acquisitions like Microsft’s purchase of Yammer and IBM’s extensive acquisition strategy (see IBM's Mike Rhodin on the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce ). million, followed by Jive Software ($65.3 million). MORE >>

The Forrester report, Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration , predicts that enterprise social software twill become a $6.4 To repeat, “by creating a social layer between information workers and the applications and communications infrastructure.”  or social business, however you call it. MORE >>

Perhaps, in a follow-up blog post I will talk a little bit about which social networking sites have now been become part of my recently created and ongoing " black list " Facebook, LinkedIn and Slideshare are just three of them, but there are a few more. In this case in this blog). Well, it has got to do with it, and quite a bit! MORE >>

The Deloitte Center for the Edge has issued a new paper, “ Social Software for Business Performance” that discusses how companies can leverage social software to improve business performance in the short-term and transform it in the long-term. would agree. agree here also. Companies must be strategic. MORE >>

The reason this quote came to mind was the result of a recent blog post Oracle's View On Enterprise 2.0 So what do Einstein, Snowflakes and WOA have to do with Enterprise 2.0? I referred back to the original definition offered by Andrew McAfee: “Enterprise 2.0 Two key points are further explained in McAfee's Enterprise 2.0, MORE >>