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Alternatively, you could use the group-oriented features in Facebook, Google Groups, or one of many other existing services
At a glance, Nextdoor sounds like an awesome idea as it’s geared towards providing a public service. The site allows people within a certain geographical area to set up private social networking sites that enable you to connect with people that live nearby, set up events and post status updates that your neighbors can comment on. There are also a number of tools that make hyperlocal chores like selling your mountain bike or finding a good lawn guy easier.
A Social Network That Wants to Know Exactly Where You Live – Technology – The Atlantic Wire
Check the post link below for a timely enterprise social snapshot
At Forrester we have published our first Enterprise Social Platform Wave. I first entitled this blog "Enterprise Social Landscape Matures" but then realized that while the market has moved dramtically forward, it’s hardly mature. Rather than mature, it often reminds me of my teenage son. Sometimes mature, sometimes not so much. The fact is that about 57% of enterprises are making some investment in enterprise social in 2011. Which means that 43% are not yet doing anything. There’s a lot yet to be determined about this market. Yet, we see signs of growing up. There are some very large deals going down as some enterprises set standards and… Continue reading: The Enterprise Social Landscape Enters Teen Years | Forrester Blogs
Being different by being more traditional, in terms of collaborative workspace models?
That might make you think “Google Circles,” but what Posterous is doing is different, because there is no secret Spaces management dashboard, where only you know who gets placed in which category.
“Versus Google Circles we think we’re building for normal people,” said Posterous CEO Sachin Agarwal in a recent interview. “We use the analogy of email [where you know who you're sending to and they know who they're receiving it from] — everything is symmetric groups.”
Posterous Reshapes Its Blog Product, Renames It Spaces – Liz Gannes – Social – AllThingsD
Excerpt from a Salesforce.com + social business update
Third is Chatter Connect, which is intended to entice software developers to work Chatter into other other enterprise applications which many people think are where the real action is in the social enterprise field. Ask the soon-to-be-public Jive Software, which can add social features to, among other applications, Microsoft Office. There’s also Yammer, which grabs social feeds from any application that has them, including, uh, Chatter. It’s not the newest idea under the sun, but Salesforce is off to a respectable start: Its first conquest is Microsoft’s collaboration software Sharepoint.
Marc Benioff Wonders Which CEO Will Be the Next Hosni Mubarak – Arik Hesseldahl – News… Continue reading: Marc Benioff Wonders Which CEO Will Be the Next Hosni Mubarak – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Cisco extends its collaboration capabilities
Collaboration is one of Cisco’s five company priorities and represents what Cisco believes to be a total addressable market of $45 billion. The acquisition will provide more opportunity for Cisco partners to provide enhanced collaboration solutions to customers. Versly’s software will be integrated into a variety of Cisco’s collaboration offerings including Cisco Quad, Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx. For example, users will be able to receive automatic notifications within Cisco Quad when the content of a document has changed, escalate from simply reviewing a document to an instant messaging session through Cisco Jabber, or initiate a web conferencing session from a presentation through Cisco WebEx.
"With this… Continue reading: Cisco Announces Acquisition of Versly – Yahoo! Finance
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