Contact Sales +1 (650) 331-7307 | Login Enterprise Social Software Blog Try Socialtext Today All Posts Application Development Customer Success Enterprise 2.0 Companies Aren’t Communities By Michael Idinopulos | February 22, 2011, 3:33 pm | 13 Comments Companies aren’t communities. They aren’t forums. One Web 2.0 MORE >>

Mandating the use of social media tools such as social network-style collaboration and sharing applications like SocialText or Twitter-style messaging such as Yammer won’t create social interaction. Top Remote Work Trends to Watch for in 2011. But do these systems work? Lack of a social culture. Lack of training. Lack of access. MORE >>

This means that, unlike with many of the private enterprise social networking apps like Yammer, Jive, tibbr, Socialtext and Salesforce Chatter, people can use the app to easily communicate and collaborate with people outside of their organization — contractors or clients, for example. Circles, effortless contact management. MORE >>

DET has now transitioned to SocialText, and have 13,640 users after 4 months. I’m at the launch meeting of the social media community of practice set up by Institute of Public Administration NSW (IPAA). Here are a few live notes from the event. . They created it by drawing on and adapting existing social media policies. Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

Getty's Socialtext implementation is seeing 95% active adoption. As Getty's Director of Learning and Development, Jennifer Fox, told me today, "We no longer going to teach people how to use Socialtext. We are going to teach them how to do their jobs.which happen to require the use of Socialtext.". Companies aren't communities. MORE >>