Posts Tagged ‘enterprise’

Via ARS Technica
By Jon Stokes | Published: December 18, 2008 - 09:35PM CT
Two of the biggest knocks against the use of SSDs in the enterprise have been size and lifespan, but both of those arguments have taken a hit this week with two recent announcements. These announcements will also have an impact on the mobile [...]

Via Groundswell
by Josh Bernoff
I just got back from a trip to Bentonville, Arkansas, home of America’s largest and perhaps most controversial retailer. While there, I met with the company’s top management, IT staff, and a couple of social media folks.
You may believe that this company will never “get it” – and that in any [...]

Via Mashable

October 29, 2008 - 1:21 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

It wasn’t long ago that people took a hard look at the social networking world and saw that such activities didn’t quite jive with the typical workplace environment. Some employers solidified that notion by barring visits to such sites [...]

Via the BBC
Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters, a Demos study suggests.
Attempts to control employees’ use of such software could damage firms in the long run by limiting the way staff communicate, the think tank said.
Social networking can encourage employees to [...]

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: October 14, 2008 - 09:17AM CT
Social media tools designed for the enterprise are getting all grown up, and a new report from Forrester Research says its time for a market readjustment. Forrester analysts cite a number of reasons for impending price drops on “enterprise 2.0″ tools like software and servers [...]

Via Mashable

October 2, 2008 - 2:12 pm PDT - by Alana Taylor4 Comments

Of all the companies and social platforms that showcased at Web 2.0 Expo NY,LiveWorld was definitely one of my favorites. Why? Because they were the only service that could explain that they understand how social media functioned and actually prove that their services provide a [...]

Via the New York Times
By C.G. Lynch, CIO.com, IDG
Published: October 1, 2008

Socialtext, a Web 2.0 vendor that has sold social software (primarily wikis) to businesses for internal collaboration and knowledge management, officially launched Socialtext People (enterprise social networking profiles) and Socialtext Signals, an application that allows business users to share short messages (in 140 characters or less) [...]

Via Mashable
By Aaron Strout and Joe Cascio
Although experts in the social media space have been talking about how businesses might adopt microblogging tools like Twitter and Plurk, only recently have we started to see a series of new vendors cropping up in the enterprise microblogging space. This has been due in part to businesses needing [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Steve Gillmor on September 30, 2008
SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these constituencies - social networking, conversation aggregation, Tw*tter, or vanilla wikis and the leveraged sites the technology has [...]