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Email in the enterprise: entering its twilight at 40?

While it’s certainly premature to declare email “dead” as a technology, it’s fair to acknowledge that a new generation of communication tools is gaining traction as a more effective means of communication for the enterprise. Miguel Valdés Faures of BonitaSoft offers some alternatives. Read More »

As work media — social media tools designed to get work done — become more ubiquitous, futurist Stowe Boyd sees an even greater need for well-defined standards that would help companies transport their data out of the current silos. Read More »

 
 

How the web has powered work for 20 years

When Tim Berners-Lee invited newsgroup users to the World Wide Web with the invitation “collaborators welcome,” he never could have expected how completely that concept would fundamentally transform work. Here, Huddle’s Andy McLoughlin shows the timeline of that transformation. Read More »

The apps that feed our mobile communication addiction

We can now check emails on the move, hold video conferences, proof documents and log in to check their bank balance when sitting on the train or working from a cafe. Our obsession has been fueled by just the right apps to help us accomplish these… Read More »

If you’re struggling to keep up with a noisy Twitter stream, you should check out Twimbow. It’s a free online Twitter client, now out of private beta, that can help to keep your stream organized by color-coding and filtering tweets. Read More »

With Google again jumping into social with Google +, interest is incredibly hot on the consumer side. But while Facebook and co. blaze a trail for home use, in the workplace interest in social has been smoldering away for years without catching into a similar bonfire.… Read More »

Feed Social Media Insight Back Into Your Business

Social media needn’t be an end in itself. It’s one thing to “engage” and “lead thinking”in your social network. But social media really starts having a direct benefit when you can tap into the information it’s providing you and feed it back into your team. Read More »

Fun With the Twitter API: No Programming Required

You don’t need to be a software developer or hardcore techie to use APIs. In fact, some web APIs, like the Twitter API, are relatively easy to use, and you can use them get access to useful and otherwise hidden data. Read More »

A new beta of social browser RockMelt has been released, including better chat and Twitter apps. Perhaps the most interesting development, however, is the new Instapaper-like “View Later” stream, which allows users to easily save web pages for later viewing. Read More »

Yahoo’s release of Twitter usage presents some interesting pointers for organizations, implying that greater benefits are available to companies using Twitter to actively engage with their own team members: companies that stop seeing Twitter as an outward-focused medium, and customers as a separate audience from staff. Read More »

CrunchConnect: Sales-Focused Web Conferencing

CrunchConnect, a new service from SalesCrunch, is entering private beta today, and it’s worth a look. CrunchConnect’s web conferencing and screen sharing system has some useful features, including the option for participants to sign in via LinkedIn, so others can see their profiles. Read More »

The key to cutting information overload is to more efficiently find the data that you want among the data that you don’t care about. I wanted to share some of the techniques that I use to hack and filter my RSS feed to prioritize relevant information. Read More »

More Must Reads

Twitter doesn’t allow you to send DMs to people who don’t follow you. Umagram is a new application that aims to work around those limitations; it enables you initiate to private conversations with anyone on Twitter with no character limits and it also supports file attachments. Read More »

Today, OneForty officially announced a new direction for the site. The online community and searchable database of Twitter-related apps has grown and expanded beyond its original Twitter focus, and now aims to become a “buyer’s guide” for people looking for social media consultants. Read More »

Keeping in touch with people over various online social services can sometimes seem like goofing off, but those connections can be tremendously valuable. Thanks to social tools, I have more meaningful interactions with people than I would have been able to maintain in the old days. Read More »

The Twitter website is rich with features that may not be easily accessible (or even available) via other other tools. Here are 10 very useful features that you might be missing out on that can be found on the Twitter website. Read More »

Have you been feeling like a Grinch about social media? It’s everywhere, shining its “happy, cheery” hype wherever you look; I know it’s taken over my life more than it probably should. Here are some simple tips for dealing with social media in the coming year: Read More »

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