Overall direction/strategic vision for the company. So Newsgator’s stance is that companies can instead rely on enterprise platforms like SharePoint and leverage NewsGator as the nimble company to develop and keep up to date on the technology side. Much like an in-house SharePoint innovation team. Companies will continue to build base products and Newsgator wants to handle the more nimble items. Think of SharePoint as the infrastructure or the engine of a car. Built completely on SharePoint. This is exactly how SharePoint is built. MORE >>

Yesterday I attended the Sharepoint geekfest at The Hilton Sydney. plonked myself down in the front row, iPad at the ready, to listen to Daniel McPherson ( danmc ) talk about socialising the business with Sharepoint. His company is ZevenSeas which wins points for having a cool name, I reckon. Before today, and probably still in many companies, the response to Badges for incentives would be met with a sneer and a “who gives a flying fig about stamps of approval?&#. As in “I can’t resign, I have too many karma points invested in this company&#. MORE >>

SharePoint. Ran Shribman says that companies can tap into the skills people are developing from their use of consumer Web 2.0 Luis Suarez outlines the advantages for companies that encourage social media use at work - a more responsive organization, better able to engage millenial generation knowledge workers, and involve experienced workers who hold a wealth of knowledge. effective wiki uses and the companies that benefit from them. About. Services. Contact. Archives. 21 days of wiki adoption. 9rules. adsense. advertising. analysis. Apple. Atlassian. AusWeb07. MORE >>

Google  announced Google+ for Enterprises today  with Hangouts integration into Docs and Calendar as well as administrative controls such as default posting to only within the company. Google has a few things going for it that the pure plays like Yammer and Socialcast in this market don’t have and that tools like Microsoft’s Sharepoint have not yet built out: Google Plus wins on affinity. their ultimate decision on this advanced level of integration could determine long term success against tools like Chatter and, to a lesser degree Microsoft’s Sharepoint. MORE >>

integrates with platforms such as Lotus Notes, Sharepoint, Outlook, and Lync. This is by-directional integration so it enables you to drag and drop documents into and from sharepoint and you see those documents appear in the right hand panel of your email client (Outlook). Think of it as a way to simply sharepoint to just the document folders. On the social side you can see the activity of people you follow on sharepoint in a Sharepoint activity stream but again this all happens right from the email client. This week I’m taking a look at Harmon.ie. Harmon.ie MORE >>