IDC just released their annual analysis of the Enterprise Social Software market. The report, entitled “Worldwide Enterprise Social Software: 2012 Vendor Analysis” includes a number of noteworthy market insights including the following:

Gartner Research has just released a report highlighting six areas cited by Gartner clients as ‘functional shortcomings’ in Microsoft SharePoint. The report, entitled "Ecosystem Partners That Can Help you Mind Six Gaps in SharePoint" identifies the shortcomings and profiles vendors of tools that can plug them.

The First Social and Document Enterprise Solution to Deliver SharePoint Uniformly on Desktop and Mobile Devices

Microsoft’s new social email products – Outlook 2013 and Outlook.com (with its 1 million sign-ups in the first 6 hours) – are shaping up to be the final chapter in the “email-is-dead/long-live-email” debate, at least for the foreseeable future.

In our previous blog posts, we’ve shared best practice tips for Delivering Consumer-Grade User Experience, how to tackle the everyday business user question WIIM (What’s In It For Me?) and how Providing guidance will encourage users to use SharePoint regularly.

One key area of driving SharePoint adoption within the organization is to actually gauge your SharePoint implementation and measure its success.

Hot on the heels of the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office release,  harmon.ie just announced version 1.0 of harmon.ie for SharePoint – Office 2013 Edition –

In our previous blog posts, Part I and Part II, we’ve shared best practice tips for delivering a consumer-grade user experience and how to help business users get 'What’s In It For Me?', when it comes to adopting SharePoint.

To encourage people to embrace and get actively involved in collaboration projects, here are some road-tested tips for how to encourage better guidance and build communities focused on supporting business needs. 

In our previous blog post we shared best practice tips for delivering a consumer-style user experience to jump start your enterprise SharePoint adoption process.

Typical business users are less resistant to changes when new tools mimic things with which they are already comfortable. But no matter how much you can imitate the consumer experience, workers always ask themselves, WIIFM (“What’s In It For Me?”) when asked to change the way they work.

When it comes to SharePoint, why do so many people subscribe to the fallacy, 'Build it and they will come'? Clearly, communication is not enough.