Even when your team is located in the same building, sharing and collaborating on documents and content can be tricky if you aren’t using the right tools. Pick a Tool. Figure out if you already have an appropriate tool you can use. How to Manage Consumer-Grade Collaborative Tools in the Workplace. Probably not. MORE >>

  They built some collaborative tools for their own use that become products for clients.    But it much more that tools. They used social tools to help define their values to better establish trust. Andy focused inside the firewall.   These were all Web focused tools. He does not do it. MORE >>

The company also announced that it is licensing the Twitter “firehose&# — an index of all 65 million tweets that are posted to the service daily — and will be offering Jive software through the Google Apps marketplace. And Jive is building in support for open standards such as OAuth and Google’s OpenSocial as well. MORE >>

With the new iPad 2 on the way, many teams may be considering whether iPads can replace laptops as productivity tools for remote workers. These apps connect to proprietary client software running on the computer in your office, and generally have the advantage that they can operate through firewalls and tend to be easy to set up. MORE >>

and this is the synopsis: Social computing tools (e.g. blogs, wikis, etc) may have appeared to have made a big splash inside the firewall, but advances in enterprise content management as well as legal and regulatory compliance drivers mean that traditional information management technologies are still alive and well. or Intranet 2.0, MORE >>