Facebook Ranks Top 'Enterprise' Collaboration Platform

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	Tuesday, May 21, 2013 TOP STORY Facebook Ranks Top 'Enterprise' Collaboration Platform Gary Flood CIOs who allow their staffs to drive their entire social media-driven collaboration strategies risk endangering their organizations, warns the U.K. arm of the joint Accenture-Microsoft joint venture Avanade. Why would they even let that happen? After all, companies like Avanade parent Microsoft have been successfully seeding enterprises with tools like SharePoint for many years. The problem: while CIOs, aided by firms like Avanade, have been providing enterprise-caliber tools, no one's been doing much collaboration work with them. This has left a huge vacuum that Avanade says is being rapidly filled with homegrown, grassroots-driven, consumer-based technology instead. READ MORE » NEWS & ANALYSIS Jive Scales Producteev App, Now Free Social task management tool Jive acquired last year becomes free as a standalone app. Integration with the Jive platform to follow. Google Hangouts To Support Voice Calls An enhanced Google Hangouts offers video chat, texting and photo sharing for free on multiple devices. More change is en route. Yahoo's Mayer Promises: We Won't Ruin Tumblr $1.1 billion deal represents Yahoo's bid to win new users and remain relevant. 3 Things Tumblr Brings Yahoo Yahoo is making a billion-dollar play for Tumblr -- and for increased relevancy. Google+ Gets 5 Smart Changes At Google I/O, Google rolls out new photo, editing and other features for its Google+ social platform, in search of new momentum. Voice Dream Reader: Affordable TTS For Disabled Users During a life-changing year in the Arctic, former enterprise software CTO created a life-changing mobile app for disabled users. SLIDESHOWS Google I/O: 10 Big Developments Google skipped the skydivers at Google I/O 2013, but broke interesting ground in maps, music, social and search. Take our tour.   JOIN THE CONVERSATION Comment by Richard Hughes: "So, were they seriously suggesting that 74% of companies do employee-to-employee collaboration on Facebook? I've talked to a lot of companies interested in this subject, and I can't remember *any* of them using Facebook for internal communication." In reply to: "Facebook Ranks Top 'Enterprise' Collaboration Platform" View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply RESOURCES & EVENTS E2 Conference Boston E2 is the only event of its kind, bringing together business and technology leaders looking for new ways to evolve their enterprise applications strategy and achieve business value. Join us in Boston, June 17-19, for three days of 40+ conference sessions and workshops across eight tracks and discover the latest insights in enterprise social software, big data and analytics, mobility, cloud, SaaS and APIs, UI/U, and more. Get More Details and Register This e-mail was sent to sojo.blo@gmail.com © UBM TechWeb 2013. All Rights Reserved. Published By InformationWeek, 600 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. UBM TechWeb, InformationWeek, and associated design marks and logos are trademarks owned or used under license by United Business Media LLC, and may be registered in the United States and other countries. Other names mentioned may be the trademark or service mark of their respective owners. Keep This Newsletter Out Of Your SPAM Folder Don't let future editions of InformationWeek Social Business go missing. Take a moment to add the newsletter's address to your anti-spam white list: email@techwebnewsletters.com If you're not sure how to do that, ask your administrator or ISP or check your anti-spam utility's documentation. We take your privacy very seriously. Please review our Privacy Statement. To unsubscribe, click here.