Tweet As I get together with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues here in California, I really appreciate all of the connecting and conversing we’ve done over the past two years, as our shared experiences ease the path to further collaboration. Collaboration is not the same as cooperation. George Bernard Shaw. This takes time. MORE >>

A second Microsoft roadmap session I attended at last weeks’ SPC was session SPC271, David Pae’s “SharePoint 2010:  Improving Productivity with Social.”  good audience question about a limitation of the “noteboard” capability in SharePoint 2010.  Collaboration Events SharePoint Social Media Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

The collaboration market has grown rapidly over the past few years , with many companies trying to grab a slice of an ever-expanding pie. There are apps for nearly any type of collaborative task you can imagine with solutions to suit every budget. Tags: Apps Open Threads collaboration Related GigaOM Pro content (sub. MORE >>

SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support for other network-like interactions rather than closed group performance. SharePoint is a silo builder, not buster. MORE >>

Sharepoint 2010 is now a credible platform player for collaboration and business social networking. The larger challenge: Changing user perceptions of what the tools are for, and what you can do with them MORE >>