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LinkedIn is not about to give up its spot as the most popular social networking site in the workplace. Not without a fight, anyway. The platform recently took a tip from Twitter and integrated a follow feature of their own. 

This Ain't Your Grandma's Follow Feature

It's not exactly like Twitter's original. Rather than simply tracking users, LinkedIn's "Company Follow" enables users to keep tabs on job openings, promotions, and other activities specific to companies. 

Users simply need to click the “follow” button on company pages, or

Quest Software (news, site) understands the challenges faced when trying to manage your SharePoint environment. To help you do a better job, they have developed a new solution called Quest Server Administrator for SharePoint 1.0.

Manage Your SharePoint Environment

While SharePoint does have some administration functions related to managing your actual SharePoint configuration, you also need to go to a number of different locations

Today, as we predicted, CMIS has been officially ratified as an OASIS standard, tweets Nuxeo's Florent Guillaume. According to Albert Brown of IBM, CMIS has more votes than all the previous ballots available (74 votes). The closest was 70 votes. Most were in the 50-ish range. We are expecting to hear an official "yes" from OASIS very early next week.

If you own any shares of one of CMIS contributors, Open Text, consider that several financial analysts downgraded their recommendations from "neutral" to "sell" following the considerable Q3 miss in revenue that was announced on Thursday. More on OTEX's Q3 financial results next week.

But Uncle G probably knew about this all along. Did you know Google can read your mind and know what you are thinking?

Ask Susan Scrupski what the mission of the 2.0 Adoption Council — an online venue for Enterprise 2.0 implementation leaders to share lessons learned from the implementation projects of large, corporate teams — is and she’ll describe her approach to nurturing its growth in the past year.

This is Part 2 of an interview with Scrupski continuing with the discussion of the 2.0 Adoption Council, elaborating in depth Ms. Scrupski’s mission and good intentions. Please note the interview was conducted on April 13, 2010.

Read Part 1 of the interview to get up to speed

Well, that didn’t take long: Just days after its acquisition of Palm, Hewlett-Packard (news, site) is reportedly set to drop the HP Slate, a handheld device that runs on Windows 7.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer previewed a prototype of the HP Slate, running Windows 7, at CES 2010 in January. The handheld was scheduled to debut later this year. However, according to

Whether you are an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, a developer or a social media start up, chances are that you’ve become more involved in building local applications and sites that focus on serving local needs. After all, investing in your local community can reap big rewards.

Though community interest abounds, most don’t always have the marketing and sales experience to secure local deals and discounts. Enter Adility.
 

Hyperlocal Consumerism

Recently the hyperlocal online distribution hub for prepaid

For the second consecutive year, the recently consolidated under one brand SDL (news,site) releases the results from the 2009 Automated Translation Survey. Read on below for all the statistics.

Automated translation, also known as machine translation, is the concept of using software to translate content from a source language into any number of target languages. The idea of

NewsGator (news, site) is off to yet a another good year, like many other social computing vendors. Part of their success is due, in part, to SharePoint, including a number of SharePoint 2010 deals already closed.

Kicking Off the Year

How does first quarter increased growth of over 70% year on year strike you? According to NewsGator CEO J.B. Holston, the market is going to continue to be robust and the company will continue to exceed their financial goals.

It's certainly a good year to be in the social computing market. And it helps if your focus is also

A good content taxonomy goes hand in hand with good enterprise search, and SharePoint 2010 has made some improvements to their basic search experience with the help of taxonomy and metadata. Here's how.

Taxonomy Is Fundamental to Enterprise Search

Search is typically thought of as a black box, with functionality that is commonly misunderstood by most users. People often turn to search as a result of a breakdown in information architecture, and tend to have high expectations based on experience gained outside the organization through the use of technologies such as Google.

Unfortunately, inside the firewall, search quite often develops into more of a

Enterprise 2.0 means different things to different people, and Microsoft has had to play catch up to the smaller and often more nimble vendors that play in the social software space. Nevertheless, MOSS2007 was probably the first foray into 'social' computing for many an enterprise, providing blog and wiki functionality, and RSS feeds. So how does SharePoint 2010 stack up?

For our quick and dirty evaluation of SharePoint 2010 from an Enterprise 2.0 perspective, where better to start than the ‘father’ of the term, Prof. Andrew McAfee, and his SLATES model.

The SLATES model was first put forward by the Professor in his MIT Sloan Management Review article: “

When we last spoke about usability testing, we introduced the what, why and how of website quality assessment. Though many appreciate the need for usability testing, some may be skeptical about paying for tools. There are a handful of free tools available that can help users better understand how website elements can be improved and how analytic tools can improve the process.

This week we took a look at some of the free tools available and what they offer.
 

Why Free is Useful

Who doesn’t love free? Free tools are a great way to get your feet wet. They often provide just the basics needed to perform the task at hand. They are often user-friendly and