Collaboration 2.0 and Enterprise Social Networking

Here is a brief overview of several new technologies that could have a profound impact on how we share and communicate with social media in the future…

A creative way to relate words and phrases to key collaboration concepts within organizations... Acknowledge collaborative contributors; watch your Body language...

President Obama's use of new media to gain support and raise funds while on the campaign trail, leveraging social media meccas such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, earned him big points with Web 2.0 advocates, but since his presidency began, bringing similar technologies to the federal government has produced a age-old set of challenges...

Here are some of the latest enterprise collaboration product releases...

"Bing!" No I'm not mocking Matthew Perry's fictional character Chandler Bing from the sitcom Friends, but rather I'm mocking Microsoft's latest attempt at a search engine, Bing, which was unveiled Thursday at D7, the All Things Digital conference in San Diego. Actually, I'm not mocking anything, Bing actually looks impressive...

Brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, creators of Google Maps, are hoping for another home run for the Google brand with the developement of an open source collaboration and communications platform called Google Wave. A 'wave' brings together elements of conversation and document; riders of the wave exchange information and collaborate...

As the exchange of information on the Web increasingly approaches the now, innovators at Topsy Labs Inc have launched a real-time search engine built off of Twitter's API.

Running a company in today's ever-changing environment requires a more fluid approach to problems and the ability to test solutions through trail and error methods. A company that exists within a fixed vertical structure prevents profiting from the true value of it's human capital. "There is never an ideal process or system and there will always be...

Yesterday Facebook accepted a $200 million dollar offer from Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies. The deal values Facebook at $10 billion

A few days ago it was announced that Iran had blocked access to Facebook from all dial-up and broadband Internet users throughout the country; today we announce

A list of notable Web 2.0, social media, collaboration, tech, marketing and networking events for June 2009...

Since the birth of the World Wide Web companies large and small have been playing the domain name game; trying to come up with a killer domain that appropriately reflects their brand or creatively spinning...

Here is a juicy little bit of information for this Friday night. On a bookshelf near you this July 14th you can pick up a copy of "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook. A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal." Bestselling author Ben Mezrich tells the amazingly true story of...

Today we use email for everything from sending messages, delegating tasks, collaborating on documents and files, to managing contacts and more. Many of us...

While brown-nose Sandy in accounting is Tweeting about how much she loathes her supervisor and Steve from procurement is boasting to his friends on Facebook about the new position he was offered at P&G, Edward in IT is scanning MySpace to make sure no drunken photos...

Bringing collaboration to the mobile workspace will require unifying communications between wired, Wi-Fi, and cellular networks. Collaboration in Motion is...

Talk about fast, you don't even need to log in to use this real-time document collaboration tool. ShowDocument is a flash-based app and super-simple to get going, simply browse for a document file, click upload, and you have a live workspace to edit your document. Quickly invite others to your workspace by...

According to comScore estimates, Twitter has reached 32 million global visitors in the month of April, up from 19 million in March, and 10 million in February...

Recently Facebook reportedly turned down $200 million in funding at a generous valuation of $8 billion because of the stipulation that a board of directors seat

Real-time collaboration for Microsoft Office is the focus of OneDrum, a tech startup based in the United Kingdom which launched a closed beta of its