6 Interesting Tools For Enterprise Social Network
In the last year, the adoption of enterprise social networking tools by businesses has increased significantly to facilitate collaboration and promote exchange of information among employees. The success and wide spread of Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter is accelerating this phenomenon and gradually bringing more and more companies to experiment with new methods of communication based of these instruments of social interaction.
Just to cite a few numbers, Yammer, one of the most popular tools for enterprise social network (which closely resembles in appearance and features the most popular Facebook), is adopted by more than 100,000 companies worldwide scale, including some of the caliber of Deloitte, AMD, eBay and Fox.
According to a Gartner research “by 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.”
In addition to the above mentioned Yammer, there are several tools circulating on the Internet to implement a social network within your company intranet in a simple and immediate way. I must point out:
- SocialText
- Socialcast
- Teambuzz
- Socialwork
- Jive
If you have any suggestion please share it with a comment!
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A new player on the scene is the open-source EurekaStreams from Lockheed Martin ( http://www.eurekastreams,org, source on githhub)
useful post…some employees use facebook..although its forbidden by most (if not all) of the companies around the world..
“Chatter” is another one..looks promising.. http://bit.ly/dQ8rtC
Also Presently: http://www.presently.com/. Microblogging and enterprise collaboration.
Very interesting :)
Do also check out Qontext (http://www.qontext.com) which enables collaboration on an enterprise platform as well as within business applications – contextual collaboration.
Disclaimer: I am an employee :-)
I strongly suggest to take a look at IBM Lotus Connections (or IBM Connections?) http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/
Thanks Patrick, nice tool!
We’re testing our Podio.com – it works for short updates of whatyou’re up to, but also has spaces and apps for everything from Sales to Accounting, with proposal generators, praise apps etc. Looks promising!
A new up-and-coming social intranet service in the Netherlands is WorkVoices.
Check -> http://www.workvoices.com
NU+ is another very interesting enterprise social platform, by the way I guess its headquarter is based in Italy.
http://www.yooplus.com/nuplus/
This list would be incomplete in my opinion without including Elgg, a very powerful and open source social networking platform. See Elgg.org for more details, Best.
Good Post Antonio!! I believe MangoApps (www.mangoapps.com) is a tuff competitor to all of the above with most business collaborative tools at a competitive pricing. Looks very promising and have been listed by NASSCOM in emerging companies. http://emerge.nasscom.in/tag/mangospring/
WOW….I tested yammer and so many others……have you tried this… http://www.convofy.com/
I believe this is the best and has more features than most….try it….and prove me wrong