SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support for other network-like interactions rather than closed group performance. SharePoint is a silo builder, not buster. MORE >>

Web Optimization Social Media Web Development Mobile Front Page All Topics Full RSS Feed Software Directory Web CMS List Doc Management List Enterprise CMS List DAM Software List Micro CMS & Blogging Social Media Monitoring Migration Tools All Products Featured Products Nuxeo Document Management Get Featured! Enterprise 2.0 capabilities. MORE >>

NewsGator is built to sit on top of SharePoint as a managed service application and does not operate independent of it. They make SharePoint more social which is a very useful task. You can filter all of these events including those from SharePoint, external social media streams (e.g., MORE >>

Companies that use SharePoint (or Lotus Connections , Jive , Newsgator , Traction , and other social software platforms) are generating massive volumes of user generated unstructured data. If awareness is the ability for the observer to conscious of events, then one would welcome as much information as possible to be on top of his/her game.  MORE >>

It is new because it now runs on Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Microsoft’s Sharepoint tool has some amazing features. While Sharepoint 2007 has some blog and wiki tools, Sharepoint 2007 is not a dedicated Enterprise Class blog or wiki platform. But, just like other platforms, it doesn’t do everything. MORE >>