Enterprise Social Platform Provider NewsGator Continues To Innovate Imagine a way to view who has received, opened, and viewed your (internal, company) emails, all in one view. Well, NewsGator has -- only it isn't with email, but with messaging. Here is what you might see if you are now using their revamped Internal Communications Solution: If it looks like the Insights for a Facebook Page (sorry, you'd have to know what it's like to be an Administrator or Manager of a Facebook Page … [Read more...]
IBM Develops an Enterprise Twitter Solution, But Will Anyone Buy It?
For those employees who tweet during the workday, wouldn't it be great to have a platform which allowed you to view all of the tweets and activity from all of your coworkers -- without the noise and clutter of the rest of Twitter? For most companies, large and small, that want to collect or keep track of employee activity on Twitter, the social media manager usually creates a List on Twitter. This is problematic primarily because all of the adding and removing of employees needs to be done … [Read more...]
From Liking to Leading: IBM Lotusphere Is Now Connect
Whew, finally a break from the 2-hour morning General Session, featuring not only the VP and the General Manager of IBM's Social Business division, but also a performance from 1980s pop group They Might Be Giants and a speech by actor-director-producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt (for those of you unfamiliar, he was in Lincoln and 50/50, among others). Perhaps what's most telling about this year's event is the name change: Lotusphere is now Connect. While IBM is normally never referenced in … [Read more...]