What do The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and CNBC all have in common? I mean, besides being respected news outlets…

All three outlets this week featured harmon.ie with its exciting new Office 365 capabilities and new Office 365/SharePoint app for the BlackBerry 10. What did they have to say? Here are a few choice quotes.

• “The harmon.ie app provides full-featured Office 365 and on premise SharePoint functionality, including secure connectivity and offline document access.”

Dubbed "Facebook for the Enterprise"and "a corporate version of Twitter" there's no doubt that Yammer has been a tremendous hit in the enterprise social arena, making it a perfect partner for SharePoint’s strong collaboration capabilities. Whereas Yammer provides a far more natural and inclusive approach to social, SharePoint provides a far stronger base for managing content, controls and the security around which conversations in the enterprise are typically focused – the combination of the two is what makes Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer in mid-2012 so exciting.

Blackberry, a global leader in wireless innovation, just launched its new Blackberry 10 platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience.

Who ensures that SharePoint runs smoothly in 80% of the world’s largest organizations?  It is a veritable army of SharePoint consultants, systems integrators, and experts who support and ensure the success of major SharePoint-based initiatives.  Within this army, who are the most important people that craft the community mindshare and build the best products and practices, develop training, and provide professional services to the world SharePoint market? 

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:

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.

Don’t be shy: how many of you are reading this blog post from an airport, elevator or even a public restroom? Well, if you’re nodding yes (or at least pausing to think about the question as you snake through TSA security), you’re not alone.

It's been exciting week here at harmon.ie HQ. A few days ago, we launched the first-ever product to bring SharePoint document collaboration and social interactions to the iPad – and the response from the mobile business community has been overwhelming.