This ability to easily control who you share specific pieces of information with is powerful, and very useful in the workplace: you may only want to send an update regarding the status or a project to only those colleagues working on that project, for example. Hangouts is Google+’s built-in multi-user video chat tool. MORE >>

While it’s certainly premature to declare email — which turned 40 years old in 2011 — “dead” as a technology, it’s fair to acknowledge that a new generation of communication tools is gaining traction as a more effective means of communication for the enterprise. BonitaSoft chatter Email Facebook Future Of Work Twitter Yammer8, 2011. MORE >>

Scrybe’s Convofy is a new enterprise social networking tool aiming to take on established players like Yammer , Socialtext and Salesforce Chatter. This ability to add context to shared items in Convofy might seem fairly insignificant, but it makes it into a really powerful and dynamic collaboration tool. MORE >>

Unlike apps like Yammer and Socialtext , which are trying to be more general social tools for the enterprise, WorkSimple concentrates specifically on the sharing of goals. The tool allows managers to provide continuous feedback through comments, goal tracking and goal reviews. MORE >>

Yammer Events. Tweet Many of our customers ask us: “What type of training should I do for Yammer?” On the one hand, software like Yammer is easy-to-use and really intuitive, but on the other hand, education and training are still important because your success is determined by how you use it. Yammer Events. MORE >>