As I mentioned in Real-Time Collaborative Editing , I had a fantastic experience participating in group editing of a Mind Map of collaborative tools during a session at Learn Trends. You can see the result below. But it was interesting to see the results exported which I've embedded below. MORE >>

An announcement about the Yammer roadmap, now part of the Microsoft family, was anticipated in the lead up to the SharePoint Conference 2012. No surprises that Yammer and the SharePoint & Office suite will work together more closely - this is API-based, through the Yammer Open Graph. Putting Social to Work. Game changing? MORE >>

Now an essential tool for approximately one billion mobile workers across the globe, email continues to dominate the way in which we communicate. With web workers now using more sophisticated collaborative apps and social business tools to communicate and share information, are we going to see email’s reign come to an end? Simple. Indeed, 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 >>

At the same time, new software is enabling new ways to collaborate and new styles of work; there’s now a proliferation of tools, from simple hosted filesharing apps to complex integrated enterprise social networking tools. As you can see in the table below, many of the tools have very similar feature sets. MORE >>