Similar to choosing a new home, the community software you choose should fit your and the members' needs -- and your organization's culture -- to best serve both the members and the staff who will run the community. At first, many community software products seem very similar. community software; online community platform MORE >>

billion in 2016, according to IDC's "Worldwide Enterprise Social Software 2012-2016 Forecast." These include: concerns about return-on-investment, security, regulatory compliance and intellectual property protection, as well as the involvement needed from IT departments to deploy and integrate the software. million). MORE >>

Based on HTML5, WebRTC is a new standard that will allow direct browser-to-browser communication and sharing, without the necessity of any central server intervention. Share anything with anyone you want, simply by directly connecting with them through your browser. Open Standards P2P Software Sharingthe-path-to-webrtc. MORE >>

I am sure that if I would go and ask you folks about naming over here some of your pet peeves from traditional collaborative and knowledge sharing tools, you would probably be getting on a roll for a good while and share all of those gripes you have been exposed to and that you wish something could be done about them. No doubt! Ready? MORE >>

Book: Cultures and Ethics of Sharing / Kulturen und Ethiken des Teilens , edited jointly by Wolfgang Sützl, Felix Stalder, Ronald Maier, Theo Hug. “It is a bilingual (English/German) collection of papers on empirical and theoretical aspects of sharing, both on-line and off-line. ” Featured Book SharingDescription. MORE >>