Heres what to look for when evaluating enterprise microblogging services or features. – Enterprise microblogging
services can offer an organizations users a new way of collaborating with one
another, of keeping tabs on important company information, and of staying up to
date on the activities of partners, customers and others outside the
organization. Here are some factors to consi…
Microsoft is exploring the idea of microblogging within an enterprise context, with its Office Labs group testing an application now called OfficeTalk. Like Twitter, OfficeTalk allows users to follow and read messages from other users, post their own messages, and create a profile. After a Microsoft internal test conducted among 10,000 users, and involving hundreds of daily messages, the Office Labs group now wants to conduct a concept test with a small number of companies. As the popularity of Twitter and microblogging has grown, businesses have been studying how to incorporate such applications into their daily activities.
– Microsoft is exploring how to build a microblogging application for
enterprise use, according to a March 17 posting on the Microsoft Office
Labs blog, and plans on expanding a concept test of the software to
more users in the near future. During this testing phase, the
application has been given…
Socialtext, the enterprise wiki pioneer, released version 4.0 of its platform March 3. The new release boasts a new Groups object to provide users with a virtual gathering place, to rally around a particular topic or goal. Socialtext Signals, the company’s microblogging tool, now lets users filter the short messages colleagues share with them by group. Socialtext Desktop lets users flashback from any microblogging message to see the context of the discussion at the time it was published. In this slide show eWEEK walks through the new capabilities, geared to trump offerings from rivals Yammer and Socialcast.
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Socialcast March 2 launched its new Ease microblogging platform. Refreshes for a microblogging platform are not novel, but Socialcast did a smart thing with Ease: integrated it with Microsoft Outlook to let the 500 million-plus Outlook users inject status updates into their e-mail client. In this slidshow, eWEEK walks through the Socialcast Ease platform, which is available via SAAS and as a virtual appliance for companies to host on their servers.
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When Yammer CEO David Sacks unveiled Yammer Communities on Feb. 25, he opened a new door for companies interested in using Twitter-like status updates to communicate with customers and partners. A free service, with the potential for additional security features, Yammer Communities lets users who don’t share the same e-mail domain communicate securely. Available March 1, the offering could help Yammer gain more traction as it seeks to compete with Socialtext, Socialcast and others that offer enterprise microblogging. See a tour of Yammer Communities here.
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Lotus Connections 2.5 borrows the Twitter-like microblogging tool from IBM’s Beehive social network research project and allows users to post status updates to share what they are doing or working on with colleagues and contacts in their professional network. Lotus Connections 2.5 also provides a new Web-based file sharing library, where users can upload presentations, YouTube videos and documents to share with colleagues, partners and customers. Users can tag, rate, recommend and comment on uploaded files to provide feedback for fellow collaborators.
– IBM released Lotus
Connections 2.5 Sept. 22, bringing the promised microblogging capability
into the application’s profiles tool, file sharing and a customizable widgets
for the communities pages.
Lotus Connections is IBM’s foray into
social software for the enterprise and features profile, blo…
Socialtext breaks out its Signals microblogging tool and People social networking utility into a separate appliance, allowing IT admins to deploy messaging and collaboration tools safely behind their corporate firewalls. The move comes as the popularity of Twitter and Facebook pushes companies to offer secure social software as enterprise applications for employees.
– Businesses whose IT administrators are searching for ways to keep employees
off Twitter and Facebook have a new ally in Socialtext.
The Socialtext Microblogging Appliance is designed to let businesses enable
their employees to use the Signals enterprise microblogging tool and People
social netw…
