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Enterprise 2.0 wrap-up. Security and Collaboration. On December 17, 2013 Cisco announced the acquisition of Collaborate.com, a cloud-based team collaboration platform that unifies messaging, document sharing, and task management in a single, easy-to-use mobile app for iPhone, Android and the Web.

Security and Collaboration

Collaborate's cloud, mobile, and web software capabilities enable Cisco to extend and integrate its collaboration and communications platform. The acquisition of Collaborate, headquartered in Boston, MA, represents a natural evolution of Cisco's next generation collaboration platform. Given the market transitions of mobility, cloud and the ever-increasing mobile worker population, the need to instantly connect, communicate, and collaborate is more important than ever.

Organizations are seeking user-friendly, mobile-centric team collaboration tools that enable better informed, faster decisions to drive business results. Ten Predictions for Collaboration in 2011. Should you sell "collaboration?" Collaborative Strategies. Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration. By Jon Udell , 1 The Web was invented so that scientists could use computer networks to collaborate -- that is, exchange documents, discuss them, coordinate work, create and publish collective knowledge.

It was, in other words, supposed to be a groupware application. 2 Despite the popularity of the Web -- or, perhaps, because of that popularity -- it has yet to fulfill that original mission. Today's Web is more like a shotgun marriage of electronic publishing and broadcast television than it is like an engineered solution for group collaboration. True, the Internet empowers today's working scientist in ways only dreamed of even a decade ago. Scheduling a meeting with a team of colleages. Collaboration: EServer Technical Communication Library.

What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient knowledge sharing. Imagine you can share your bookmarks with your colleagues, find your documents and emails quickly through tagging, write about your work experiences on your personal homepage (blog), and document all project team work in a wiki.

What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient knowledge sharing

The result is a revolutionary different way to share knowledge online within an organization. How does it work and what is the trick? It simply needs to combine the already existing and freely available tools or open source applications in web.2.0. The marker: Tagging Tagging simply means to add key words to every link you save or blog entry you write. Basically you don't sort anymore all your different files in hierarchical folders, you know anyhow that this is never perfectly possible. The network: Social Bookmarking Imagine your bookmarks are visible to your colleagues. Enterprise2.0 Web2.0 Trends. Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups. KnowEm Username Check - Secure your Brand or Online Identity on Social Media.

Social Media Blog » Social Media Measurement. A must have book for social media classes at universities: “Your Brand” by Michael Brito It has been a LONG time since I got really excited about a social media book.

Social Media Blog » Social Media Measurement

I have been teaching and researching in this area for the last several years, and one of the things that I have struggled with has been to find the right book to use for my social media classes. Some are dedicated too much to theory and others are not relevant anymore since it takes so long to publish nowadays. However, I read a book that got me excited about not only the possibilities for how I could use this in research, but also in the classroom as well. I bought “Your brand” by Michael Brito right before I went to the EUPRERA Congress in Barcelona this past week – and I finished the book on the flight over. Why do I think “Your Brand” is a must-have? Current case studies: Michael does a great job in sharing case studies that have worked or not worked in the realm of social media business strategy.

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Social Computing - NewsGator. Making Data Relevant: The New Metrics for Social Marketing. Prashant Suryakumar is a Social Media Engagement Manager at Mu Sigma and is currently focused on social media analytics.

Making Data Relevant: The New Metrics for Social Marketing

This post was co-authored by Dhiraj Rajaram, the founder and CEO of Mu Sigma. Social media has come of age. Marketers now have the ability to augment their traditional marketing approaches with rich behavioral and activity-based targeting that should increase marketing ROI significantly. From Dropbox Gurus: Ideas for Beginners, Intermediates and Wizards. If you're like us, you're using Dropbox for all kinds of unusual tasks.

From Dropbox Gurus: Ideas for Beginners, Intermediates and Wizards

But we wanted to go further, so we asked the experts at Dropbox to tell us their most unusual, unexpected and crazy ways to use this versatile software tool. If you're not familiar with Dropbox, it's free desktop synchronization software that lets you store a copy of a file on your computer and then access that same file from anywhere. You can store up to 2GB for free. Go over that amount, and it'll cost you $10 a month for 50GB and $20 a month for 100GB. Here's the scoop from our experts for three different levels of Dropbox users: For Beginners Only Before we get to the advanced techniques, one Dropbox expert suggested that we focus on the basics.

Sync between two computers: This is the most basic task, where you install the Dropbox application onto two computers and synchronize files between them. MarkjOwen's Blog.