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Yammer wins TechCrunch50; enterprises lose

While I do believe there is a better business model out there for corporate microblogging, Yammer is not it. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Employee, Network, Enterprise 2.0, Yammer, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-09-12

A Myriad of Microblogging Options...

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...

Tags: Twitter, Yammer, ESME, Blogging, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Groupware, Web Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Yammer - another nice T4E but no cigar

In time honored Gartner fashion, I'm now using T4E as a TLA Three Letter Acronym to describe 'Twitter 4 Enterprise' style services that are coming out the woodwork at a rapid rate of knots. This time around it's Yammer, which provides a private form of messaging for use inside the...

Tags: Business Process, Cigar, Twitter, Service, Yammer, Operational Planning, Instant Messaging, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-09

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Hello Salesforce Chatter, so long Yammer?

Salesforce Chatter brings trusted collaboration and social networking to enterprises. Is it bye-bye time for competitors? by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!

Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Gabble 1.3.4 (Mac)

Gabble is a native Mac OS X desktop client for the Yammer messaging service. It's the first Yammer desktop client designed specifically for the world's best operating system. Let Windows users wrestle with that crazy Adobe Air stuff. For Mac users there's now a better way. Gabble is written...

Tags: Desktop Client, Apple Macintosh, Social Media, Erik Hinterbichler, Gabble, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Gabble 1.3.1 (Mac)

Gabble is a native Mac OS X desktop client for the Yammer messaging service. It's the first Yammer desktop client designed specifically for the world's best operating system. Let Windows users wrestle with that crazy Adobe Air stuff. For Mac users there's now a better way. Gabble is written...

Tags: Desktop Client, Apple Macintosh, Social Media, Erik Hinterbichler, Gabble, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-23

New Socialtext Microblogging Appliance Signals Increased Flexibility

Socialtext are making available an 'unbundled' appliance version of their microblogging product 'Signals' at an attractive $US1 per user per month, plus $1,000 per month server subscription. With the rapid increase in business use of Twitter, the hugely successful but internet based free microblogging platform, there...

Tags: Socialtext, Socialtext Microblogging Appliance, Socialtext Signals, Social Networking, Wiki, Strategy, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14

CubeTree launches enterprise social networking suite; Can it stand out?

CubeTree on Monday unveiled its enterprise collaboration suite, which mimics popular social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. In addition, CubeTree said that SAP has deployed the software among 4 percent of its workforce.  CubeTree's aim: Port social networking to create an enterprise collaboration suite. ...

Tags: Software, Network, SAP AG, Twitter, Tool, CubeTree, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Windows 7 RC ready for public download

Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadIt's the most highly anticipated OSIt's the most highly anticipated OS so it had to happen. However downloads aren't being interrupted :)RE: Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadI'm downloading now and I seem to be getting near my max speeds on a 7megs...

Tags: Operating systems, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows 7, public download, Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0

Guest editorial by Andrea Baker Let's face it, it's probably true. Your business is deeply married to email. You never read a blog until the past year at least with some regularity. And you probably don't know what a discussion page is on a wiki. ...

Tags: Team, Employee, Collaboration, Blog, Social Media, Business, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Workforce, Andrea Baker, Productivity, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Hello People, BlackBerry is the killer enterprise device today

Hello People, BlackBerry is the killer enterprise device todayBB Browser Weak?We discourage browsing with a BB for a variety of reasons, cost ranks high.In the corporate world it is about email, calendar, and task integration with Exchange.+1 for the Blackberry on that count....So what if Apple has a better...

Tags: e-mail, RIM BlackBerry, enterprise device

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

Twitter is Dangerous: revista

I'm probably miles behind some tech complaint curve everyone else knows about, but having spent four hours trying to gain control of my Twitter account I'm at the point of pulling what's left of my hair out. Here's what's happened. The last few days I noticed the...

Tags: Twitter, Scoble, Autoresponders, E-mail, Sales Force Management, Security, Online Communications, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Feed me: bite-sized data for a hungry Internet

Panel: Ari Steinberg (Engineering Mgr, Facebook Inc), Eric Eldon (Editor, VentureBeat), Dare Obasanjo (Program Mgr, Microsoft), David Sacks (CEO, Yammer), Paul Buchheit (Founder, FriendFeed) People tend to model the behavior of their friends and so something similar. Facebook's news feed helps achieve this....

Tags: Media, Twitter, CEO, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-14

Twitter as a district communication tool

Twitter as a district communication toolTwitter does ROCKHere is a video which mentions how Twitter was used during the fires in Southern California recently. http://tinyurl.com/dm9ln4It's all about communication. Tweet me at www.twitter.com/futurediamondSchools and governments would be foolishto not take advantage of what they can get for free, especially...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Twitter, district communication tool

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Social silly season

Social silly seasonit's the audience, sillyI was at an event last week with over a 100 CIOs and I was getting agitated because the wi-fi was intermittent. Most of the audience did not seem to care. they were raptly focused on the speakers (which I appreciated when it came my...

Tags: Twitter, silly season, social media

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

AlertThingy 3.0 (Windows)

AlertThingy brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Plus send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. It makes it faster and easier to manage the online you. Plus you get the coolest looking RSS reader...

Tags: AlertThingy, RSS, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-02-11

AlertThingy 3.01 (Mac)

AlertThingy v3 brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Plus send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. With v3 AlertThingy makes it faster and easier to manage the online you. Plus you get the coolest...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Howard Baines, RSS, Social Networking, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Software downloads 2009-02-09

Statuso 1.0 (Mobile)

Supports facebook, twitter, friendfeed and yammer. The first time you run the application, you will be prompted to add at least one social networking/micro-blogging account. From the listing of providers supported, tap the account you wish to setup first. Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-03

Getting on the wavelength

There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...

Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-30