They are also very inefficient, which is why services such as Yammer do so well, but email’s extreme standardization makes it ubiquitous, so those are the tools we use. Enter Squadmail , which has one of those ideas that seems quite obvious in retrospect: shared, cross-client email folders for collaboration. MORE >>

Rather than just an element of social networking, we went with Socialtext, an ESN platform that offers blogging, micro-blogging, wikis, groups, collaborative workspaces and a range of other features. We’ve known that adoption of new collaboration and communication tools inside organisations can be hit and miss for decades. Permalink. MORE >>

If you are still trying to get your head around the deeper implications of the Yammer & SharePoint roadmap announcement , here is some further reading: Hold tight - its just a bump in the road. What will win out of Yammer Groups and SharePoint Communities? What about Yammer? The analyst's view. MORE >>

Podio is aiming to shake up this enterprise social networking space currently occupied by the likes of Yammer , Presently , SocialWok and Salesforce Chatter by providing a tool that can be customized using a wide range of ready-to-use productivity apps available from its built-in App Store. Podio on the Go. Comparisons. MORE >>

Yammer was one of the first enterprise microblogging tools, and it continues to add features to extend the original concept of Twitter into an enterprise business application. while back, I wrote about one case example, Implementing Enterprise Micro-messaging with Yammer at Océ. Océ is still an active user of Yammer.   MORE >>