The promise of a successful ESN deployment is appealing to businesses: implement a Facebook- and Twitter-like system for your workplace, with employee profiles, activity streams, document sharing, groups, discussion forums and microblogging, and watch employee collaboration bloom. With the middle of winter hitting down under aligned with the arrival of school holidays, I took a week of vacation with my family. MORE

The CFO thought microblogging was cheaper than blogging. Alan at Socialtext presents the top 10 reasons you know you need to upgrade your intranet : 10. The most common question about it is “What Intranet?”. Today employees just look for the cafeteria lunch menu. The CEO was given upgrade suggestions from their 5th grader. The employee directory still lists job titles from 6 years ago. You want to level the playing field between the introverts and extroverts. MORE

Information is organised neatly per chapter around online communities, multimedia (stories), microsharing/microblogging, collective intelligence, virtual environments and the use of social media to support events. I read 'the New Social Learning' by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. MORE

Think about how perhaps you could achieve that very same goal through the use of a blog post, or a microblog entry, or a wiki page, or just an activity. Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit around the topic of Social / Open Business Transformation. MORE

And then people keep telling me that they don’t see the business value of using Status Updates, Activity Streams, Microblogging , Microsharing or whatever other fancy term to go along with one of my favourite quotes as of late: “ narrate your work; it will make you smarter. MORE

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You might not have noticed but a few weeks back I launched my bioteams microblog for short articles you can read in under a minute. It also suits me when I am travelling and want to post via mobile phone. MORE

  Other tools followed with IM at 63% on the intranet, wikis at 61%, RSS at 56%, tagging at 51%, social networking at 43%, microblogging at 42%, podcasts at 39%, content ratings at 29%, social bookmarking at 23%, and mashups at 10%. Prescient Digital Media will be officially releasing their report on the Social Intranet Study at the Intranet Global Forum conference in NYC, Nov 9-10. I had a chance to look at a preliminary copy and there are some interesting findings. MORE

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From the very first beginning that I got exposed to them over at Twitter, over 4 years ago , till today, where I am using a bunch of various different microblogging / microsharing services, both internal and external, I couldn’t work, nor get much done!, I heart Activity Streams. MORE

The main mistake organizations make is not defining clearly the reasons for adopting ESN software, which offers features and capabilities like profiles, status updates and microblogging popularized by consumer social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, but adapted for workplace use. MORE

Taiwanese twitterers showing us how to "retweet" in Angkor Wat Warning: If you haven't used Twitter or other microblogging services before, this post which focuses on citation issues will likely put you off completely. picture credit: kenworker ??????????????????Taiwanese MORE

In it, Dan shares how they keep making use of social tools like blogs, wikis, microblogging, etc. MORE

The Microblogging world just got more complicated with Yammer winning the Pop Idol/American Idol style knock out ‘TechCrunch 50” competition, in which “52 of the best startups launched their products in front of the industry’s most influential venture capitalists, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, and press”, along with a substantial audience and live feeds of sessions on MORE

socialnetwork_km socia microblogging activitystream enterprise2.0 In The Next Version. Alan Lepofskys blog about technology, travel and the occasional golf post. About. Enterprise Collaboration Vendors I’m Currently Tracking. January 7 2012 01:30:27 PM. Add/Read Comments [5]. The following lists are sorted alphabetically, not by my ranking. Several could be placed in more than one column. Not all are publically available yet. MORE

Beyond microblogging: Conversation and collaboration via Twitter. Tags: system:media:document cp2tech02 Twitter system:filetype:pdf collaboration microblogging To be published as: Honeycutt, C., and Herring, S. In press, 2009). Proceedings of the Forty-Second Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. Nominated for a HICSS Best Paper prize.]. MORE

From Cisco Retires Webex Social, Partners with Jive Instead : Cisco and Jive are marketing a bundle that includes Cisco’s WebEx Meetings and Jabber for online meetings, Web conferencing, IM and audio/video communications and Jive’s ESN software, which provides “Facebook like” capabilities for workplace collaboration, like employee profiles, activity streams, microblogging, document sharing and group workspaces. MORE

Roll-up: Businesses Love Microblogging “, which is pretty close to another one shared by her the previous day under the title “? What’s Trending in Enterprise Microblogging? Yes, indeed, businesses love microblogging and, to be honest, I can’t blame them. MORE

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Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta « Bloggers Interview: Mike Rhodin, Lotusphere | Main | OLPC in NYC » February 04, 2008 XMPP and Microblogging (Twitter) Via Slashdot : Interesting article, follow the citation link for screen shots of the implementation. The example application that illustrate this article is a distributed Twitter-like microblogging platform. MORE

The use case for microblogging that he gets to share as part of that story is fantastic! MORE

This is it! The moment of truth! The wait is over. The long hiatus of silence is now a thing of the past. The soul-searching period is finished and dealt with. It is, at long last, official and I am now ready to announce it to the world! MORE

Eugene said that when Socialtext Signals and its microblogging capability, was introduced in 2008 the focus was on integration from the start. They were likely the first to provide a microblogging capability within a collaboration suite and now many of the others have made this move. I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. MORE

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One of the features I like is the ability to separate activity streams from microblog chatter as you can see above. Microblogging is the Twitter-like manual updates provided by users. MORE

I recently read an interesting study by my friend Kate Ehrlich at IBM and her colleague Sadat Shami, It is titled, Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace and looks at how corporate employees use microblogging tools. We need more research like this. This effort conducted a content analysis comparing over 5,000 posts between March and June 2009 from individuals who were using an internal IBM proprietary tool, Blue Twit, and Twitter simultaneously. MORE

James D talks about microblogging & Luis talks about a specific application for emergency services. I've noted my personal preferences recently but for me microblogging has got F.A. to do with blogging. My posts tend towards the terse but I generally break the 160 character barrier. For me, a blog post has to have an idea in there. It may not be yours. It may not be any good. But it's there. MORE

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The widely used mix of Yammer and Sharepoint, which makes sense because microblogging eases the pain to get cross talk compared to document-sharing which is the upbringing of the Sharepoint platform. Fredric contemplates if fundability will suffer as Enterprise 2.0 and social business tools become mainstream: " For me being a Linked Enterprise Data enthusiast I would bet a coin or two on that pragmatic way of bridge different data sets and uses. MORE

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microblogging??? about how people foresee microblogging taking off within the enterprise ??? In fact, the other debate that will go on internally within enterprise organizations will be the overlap between microblogging tools and instant messaging tools that support group chat. beyond SIP/SIMPLE) to support concepts related to social presence as well as concepts related to microblogging? A Myriad of Microblogging Options??? A Myriad of Microblogging Options??? MORE

Twitter - microblogging Twitter is good for networking with colleagues, use and follow hashtags like #lrnchat. (photo by Kitty Terwolbeck ) There are lots of online tools that you can use for free or for very little money. Every week I try some new tools (like this week vialogues ) and honestly? Occasionally the high number of tools and possibilities make me restless. MORE

RT @ outstart : RT @ bduperrin : Corporate Microblogging Helps Employees Migrate Work Conversations Online - [link]. RT @ outstart : RT @ bduperrin : Corporate Microblogging Helps Employees Migrate Work Conversations Online - [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. MORE

While eXo has microblogging features, these columns can aggregate more than the microblogging content. In addition to the microblogging capability, you can follow people as you do in Twitter and get feeds from objects such as sales leads or projects. ?Much has happened to bring social applications into the enterprise in the past few years. I recently spoke with eXo CEO Benjamin Mestrallet who shared his observations on this trend. First, a bit about eXo. MORE

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Whether you are new to Twitter and the whole world behind microblogging / microsharing, or whether you are a seasoned power user of Twitter, Twitter for Business is one of those education sessions you can’t miss! MORE

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Microblogging is one of the feeds into the Activity Stream. NewsGator recently launched Social Sites 2010 2.0, the next version of their flagship enterprise social computing software. MORE

Social media like microblogging tool Twitter have great potential for supporting these conversations. On September 1, I gave the invited talk for the 5th AIS SIGPrag International Pragmatic Web Conference Track of the I-SEMANTICS 2010 conference in Graz, Austria. Here are the abstract of and link to the paper , as well as the presentation. Abstract. Conversations are the lifeblood of collaborative communities. MORE

Yammer was one of the first enterprise microblogging tools, and it continues to add features to extend the original concept of Twitter into an enterprise business application. This is a testimony to the power of microblogging and to what Yammer brings to this capability MORE

Can you imagine your business having an Enterprise microblogging platform, whether internal or external, behaving in such way for days, if not months already? MORE

Traction Team Page has also recently incorporated microblogging into their wiki-based platform. There seems to be a lot of names floating around for what many people call Twitter for the enterprise. Of course Twitter is not for the enterprise any more than Facebook is for the use inside the firewall. While these consumer web tools can be used by business people for public social networking, they lack the features for business applications. MORE

Content is broadly defined as “as anything you have placed on your website, blog, microblog, or video sharing account.” Pam Sahota has provided a useful post, Examples of Corporate Social Media Policies , that actually contained links to 14 examples. While it is always good to look at what others are doing, Pam started with the proper caution that there’s no right policy. Your company needs to find what is right for your culture and needs. Here are a few. MORE