Collaboration Dropbox Email file sharing Huddle YammerA few weeks ago, electronic mail, or email as it’s now affectionately known, hit the respectable age of 40. Email has transformed the way people shop, bank, communicate with family members and do business. But is it about to hit a midlife crisis? Email is a great communication tool. MORE >>

This means that, unlike with many of the private enterprise social networking apps like Yammer, Jive, tibbr, Socialtext and Salesforce Chatter, people can use the app to easily communicate and collaborate with people outside of their organization — contractors or clients, for example. Circles, effortless contact management. MORE >>

The rapid rise of platforms like  Yammer  and Salesforce’s  Chatter  - which are exclusively geared towards the enterprise — suggest the larger rise of the “social enterprise.”. BonitaSoft chatter Email Facebook Future Of Work Twitter YammerAs such, there’s no single be-all, end-all tool that will ultimately replace email. 8, 2011. MORE >>

Following on from the massive success of social apps like Facebook and Twitter in the consumer space, over the past couple of years we’ve seen a new wave of social networking tools, such as  Yammer ,  tibbr ,  present.ly , Socialtext and  Salesforce.com’s Chatter hoping to capture similar successes in the enterprise market. MORE >>

But Yammer co-founder and CTO Adam Pisoni has an argument to convince any skeptic. We’ve heard so many stories about an employee or a set of employees who disagreed with a policy change that was about to be made and went on Yammer to start talking about it. gave this analogy on the IBF 24. Image courtesy Flickr user jonny goldstein. MORE >>