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Twitter + Yammer? What could have been…

Danny WhatMough

I’ve been thinking a lot about Enterprise Social Networks recently, and so should you if the figures about the potential size of the market over the next few years are to be believed ($6.4bn by 2016). The news that Yammer has been acquired by Microsoft for $1.2bn therefore shouldn’t come as any surprise.

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Attenzi – A Social Business Story

Waxing UnLyrical

It’s only after decades that we’re beginning to play to digital’s unique properties, moving away for example from folders towards search and discovery, and away from email towards enterprise social networking. I think much the same can be said of social business. Attenzi – A Social Business Story.

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. If that were the case, Microsoft wouldn’t have dropped $1.2 Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates.

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Social Pros 22 – Evan Hamilton, UserVoice

Convince & Convert

Read on for insights from Evan and some social media news from Eric and Jim ( this week : Facebook changes users’ email addresses without permission, LinkedIn offers targeted status updates, and Microsoft acquires Yammer). Jim : Yes, it really does, I mean, we had somebody out from Yammer on one of the shows I hosted.

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The role of social media in managing projects for brands

Socialmedia.biz

Another one is Yammer. A product of Microsoft, Yammer is a social network for employees, assigned a project. Virtual workspaces, on the other hand, connect employees and increase their productivity at a relatively low cost. One such tool is Producteev. It makes task management simple.

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Social Pros Podcast – Justin Levy, Citrix Online

Convince & Convert

I created a board about best social media books and some other things and put up some quotes, and apparently that rubbed some folks the wrong way. Jay : Justin, do you have an internal social network that you use to communicate those things within the enterprise? But I’ve been wrong in the past. Jay : Right.

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38+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools and Reviews

Webbiquity SMM

Manage all of your social media accounts from a single login on your iPhone? Make more productive use of your time on social networking sites? Find tools to do all of the above and much more in this collection of helpful business, online and social media tools, apps and reviews. Back up your Gmail account? ShortStack.

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