A growing number of employees want to use social networking to improve collaboration, productivity and knowledge sharing. But within some organizations IT is standing in their way. That's the ...

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DUXBURY, MA--(Marketwire - August 13, 2009) - Wainhouse Research has recently expanded its Rich Media Metrics survey coverage to include the Enterprise Social Networking space. In the third report of ...

IBM announced Monday a new set of social networking tools that offer enterprise-wide, controlled MySpace-style environments to corporations. Big Blue is billing its Lotus Connections platform as the ...

One of Salesforce.com’s latest and most-touted features in its enterprise social network, Chatter, lets you bring in people from external businesses and customers, so they can participate in activity ...

The market for collaborative applications, including conferencing tools, email, enterprise social networks and team collaboration apps, is expected to reach $15.1 billion by 2018, with a compound ...

Facebook, Google+ and Twitter-it’s hard to not realize that social networking is an important part of today’s environment. Recently, there has been a push to expand the instant, always-on, real-time ...

Harvesting breakthrough ideas is a challenge for any organization, but one company thinks a bit of play may be just the answer. Spigit mixes enterprise social networks with game design and personal ...

Jive Software will begin to deliver later this quarter new modules to link its flagship Social Business Software (SBS) enterprise social-networking product with leading content management systems (CMS ...

Some automation suppliers are moving to incorporate “wikis” as knowledge management tools, while one recent study shows that users want manufacturing software to become more like social media. With ...

Like BYOD, social networking tools can be valuable at work, and denying it will only hurt IT's ability to control its use I’ve never been shy regarding my position on enterprise social networking ...

Companies are blocking Facebook, frowning on social networking and pretending that employees don't peruse information from Wikipedia and Delicious, but they should embrace those sites. In fact, it may ...