Collaboration 2.0 and Enterprise Social Networking

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference will begin on Monday in Boston and more than 20 companies have been selected to showcase their new enterprise collaboration and business social media offerings. Here is what we can expect to see this week…

You voiced opinions about the new iPhone 3G S pricing on Twitter, and AT&T listened. Recent news regarding a $200 charge for many current iPhone users to upgrade to the new 3G S model stirred up a swarm of negative feedback posts across the Twitter platform. After hearing what you had to say, AT&T has...

Apple this week released the first edition of the iPhone OS Enterprise Deployment Guide which targets system administrators. The 83 page manifesto exhibits Apple's will to penetrate the business smartphone market. The guide provides comprehensive instructions for iPhone and iPod touch deployment...

An effort to restructure MySpace into a more innovative and entrepreneurial business results in News Corp ordering layoffs of 30% of the social network's staff this week, approximately 400 employees. MySpace has seen nothing but bad news lately...

[Video] Google conducted a small survey in Times Square not too long ago simply asking people, "What is a browser?" The result was that less than 8% of those interviewed knew the answer. Most people responded with search engines such as Google & Yahoo but a few were on point naming Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Watch the video...

Adobe understands that collaboration is much more about people than it is about technology and has designed Acrobat.com to be easy to use yet powerful. Acrobat.com offers a suite of web-based collaboration applications focused on helping business people solve business problems. "Acrobat.com is poised to become the...

Many companies these days are focused on developing applications that run online within "the cloud" a.k.a. Software as a Service (SaaS); Opera today introduces what appears to be a P2P development platform that promotes running applications locally and using the Opera browser as a web server. Opera Unite is a new technology from Opera that...

According to the latest comScore data Facebook is now the number one social network in the U.S., surpassing MySpace by just over 20,000 visitors in May. Data released today from comScore shows Facebook received...

The first free social IT management software application Spiceworks today announces new features with the release of Spiceworks IT Desktop 4.0. More than 700,000 IT professionals from small and medium size businesses manage and collaborate on "Everything IT" with Spiceworks, a complete network...

Google now offers a solution for integrating Microsoft Outlook seamlessly with Google Apps Premier or Education Editions. NEC announced this Tuesday a new video web conferencing and collaboration application dubbed UC for Enterprise (UCE) Collaboration. WizeHive announces several new enhancements to it's free web-based collaboration software.

Looking at the structure of many modern day companies we see that capable parts do not always create a unified whole. This dilemma has a close relation to the Frankenstein monster, while constructed of strong individual pieces, he is inherently cumbersome and lethargic. Enterprise collaboration initiatives...

The latest from Google Labs is a simplified data analysis and visualization tool that allows users to collaboratively develop and manage tabular data. Traditional database systems are known for containing complex SQL queries and transaction processes. Google Fusion Tables has developed a system where the "focus is on...

Starting this Saturday at 12:01 AM EDT you will be able to choose a Facebook username which will be reflected in your Facebook vanity URL. You can choose a username for your personal profile and one for each of the Facebook Pages you administer. Currently Facebook...

Apple announced the iPhone 3G S at it's World Wide Developers Conference Monday in San Francisco, the fastest most powerful iPhone yet. Upgrades in the new iPhone include video recording, 3-megapixel still camera, Voice Control, faster processing speeds, up to 32GB of storage, and more.

1. Focus on people when planning your social business strategy. 2. Design systems and technologies around people and the way they work. 3. Engage and interact with your employees and customers. 4. Profit from your connections and communities.

Social media monitoring, metrics, analysis and reputation management companies offer solutions to track what is being said about your company across popular social networking platforms, blogs, forums, news outlets, and more.

Recently we talked about social media impersonators who often damage the reputation of the individual or brand they are masquerading as through slander or false statements on popular social networking sites. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, in response...

...she goes on to say (frame 2:28) that social networking sites are "contributing to identify theft because [they] do not ask to verify someone's identity before they create a profile." While most social networks have strict policies on impersonations...

Social media marketing mishaps - say that five times fast. Today companies cannot afford to ignore the momentum of the social media revolution; still considered to be in an early stage of development and yet has had a profound impact on society and business at a global level. When looking towards the marketing possibilities of social networks...

For those of us that frequently create PowerPoint style presentations with a colleague or in a team, we know the mundane task of creating slides, emailing them to our colleague to review, then they email them back with changes, rinse, repeat, blah… Luckily now there is a better way thanks to Adobe Presentations.