The current trend in the corporate social software field is toward growth and consolidation.  Very recently, LinkedIn received its initial public offering and Jive Software is hot on its heels.  Over the last year and a half, with the introduction of Chatter, Salesforce has become a major player in the field.  The emergence of Jive and LinkedIn is not surprising given their investment teams.  Sequoia Capital is a lead investor in both companies,...

Use Case Snapshot: Finding Experts and Creating a Smooth Transition Between Systems

I want to write about a project thatcame across my desk recently which does well to highlight theflexibility of social business software. I was contacted by a digitalsecurity firm with over 10k employees, 1600 of which are designatedas “experts” in specific fields. The company has alreadydeveloped a hierarchy for these “expertise fields” (of which ...

A survey by IT staffing company, Robert Half Technology of 1400 CIOs across the United States found that more than half are predicting that real-time collaboration technologies such as Blogtronix, Telligent & SharePoint will surpass email as the chief form of internal communications in the next 5 years.

Email may soon become the new snail mail, a new Robert Half Technology survey suggests. More than half (54 percent) of chi...

Blogtronix is teamwork-oriented software that helpscompanies extract maximum value from their human capital.

How does it work?

Groups

• Groups serve as virtual workspaces focused aroundspecific projects, issues or events.

• Each group has its own set of applications including blogs,wiki space, and document repository.

• Users can quickly create new groups and invitecolleagues.

• Threaded micro-blogging allows ...