One of the enablers of this tighter integration is the use of Connections with the OpenSocial Foundation,  a standards board that IBM  and other firms such as Microsoft, Google, Atlassian, and Jive collaboratively develop or utilize. This effort is designed to give social tools the ability to work together, a wise move. MORE >>

The latest news is that design competition platform 99designs, in its first external fundraising, has just received an investment of $35 million from major VC firm Accel Partners. Here are our 9 practical steps to getting great outsourced design on 99designs. Any employee you look to hire here asks, ‘Who funds you?’” Llewellyn says. MORE >>

Senior Architect, IBM and Jay Simons, VP Marketing, Atlassian. We need to start designing and implementing social networking platforms that have capabilities to span internal and external audiences. During the Enterprise 2.0 You can get involved by following the OpenSocial blog , the OpenSocial Wiki , or the OpenSocial Forum. content. MORE >>

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One of the interesting points in the case study is that after evaluating different wiki products, they opted for Confluence by Atlassian because it provide functionality such as " a hierarchy of pages, strong attachment capabilities, news features, LDAP integration, high quality search and a decent rich text editor. ©2005-2009. MORE >>