A number of large and small companies are making big bets on social business through acquisitions like Microsft’s purchase of Yammer and IBM’s extensive acquisition strategy (see IBM's Mike Rhodin on the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce ). " Tops by far was IBM with $105.4 million).     MORE >>

IBM’s broad-based social platform Connections and platforms that began with specific tools such as wikis and blogs and have now shifted to broader social suites, such as SocialText , Jive , Telligent all include microblogging, while Cisco has introduced Jabber. Email is not going to die, but it is reducing,” he said. MORE >>

event in Boston last year, I moderated a discussion between IBM and Oracle on the topic of portals and its relation to Enterprise 2.0. Panelists include: Adina Levin, Vice President of Products & Co-founder, Socialtext, Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO, Exo Platform, David Johnson, Web 2.0 SocialText. During the Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

You might have noticed that I've been presenting a fair bit these recent weeks about enterprise social software - I'm been completing a short roadshow with Dimension Data ( we are in Brisbane this Friday ) and last week I had a lot of fun presenting along side Mark Oehlert at Socialtext 's Enterprise Social Summit. One other event TBC. MORE >>

Instead of buying more gear to improve IT performance, employees are brainstorming ideas across larger groups on the companys Socialtext platform. So the IT team set up Socialtext inside the company firewall. The Socialtext platform has profiles, a wiki capability, and instant messaging. All social." Will the momentum continue? MORE >>