Recent awards and coverage of Socialtext in leading publications. http://www.socialtext.com/news/coverage.php CMS Wire August 17, 2010 Socialtext's enterprise-level solutions cover a range of collaborative/social features, such as social networking, blog, wikis, microblogging and groups. Most recently, the company also upgraded SocialPoint, the offering that allows information to flow directly from SharePoint into the Socialtext activity stream. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/5-social-networking-tools-for-enterprise-collaboration-008339.php AccMan, Dennis Howlett's Blog August 30, 2010 “Signals allows us to respond faster,” says Hayes Knight CIO Jack Pedzikiewicz. “The speed with which we’re answering questions has been cut in half, and is a full 7-8 minutes faster on average. The wonderful thing is, as we capture these great answers inside of Socialtext workspaces, we also cut back on repetition where questions cover the same issue and build best of breed responses and knowledge on key issues of importance. It allows us to serve our customers faster and more consistently.” http://accmanpro.com/2010/08/30/hayes-knight-at-last-someone-gets-21st-century-knowledge-sharing/ ReadWriteWeb July 15, 2010 As we've said before, status updates are a must-have feature for enterprise collaboration tools - and have applications far beyond collaboration. Yet some enterprises are slow to recognize the business value of this technology. So if you want to sell your manager on an activity stream or microblogging solution, what are you supposed to do? Here are key points for making the case for activity streams in the enterprise. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/07/making-the-case-for-enterprise.php Managing Automation June 18, 2010 Socialtext Connect can be used to build integrations between Socialtext’s social software platform and on-premise or cloud-based enterprise applications. The tool will enable access to enterprise applications by individuals who typically are not users, the company said. http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/exclusive/read/Enterprise_Applications_Get_Social_Networking_Link_2_27756297 CTO Edge June 18, 2010 Socialtext is positioning Connect as an open standards-based tool designed for surfacing critical events from enterprise applications and injecting them as streams into Socialtext’s social software platform. Socialtext says that its new solution eliminates the siloing of data, events and processes among users of individual enterprise applications. http://www.ctoedge.com/content/socialtext-reaches-out-enterprise-data Internet News June 17, 2010 Socialtext already brings companies popular social media features like blogs, wikis and real-time chat in an enterprise-friendly layer that addresses compliance and security. With Connect, the company said it can make corporate information tied to enterprise applications like CRM, ERP and document management more available to Socialtext's social media applications. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3888161/Socialtext-Connect-a-Missing-Link-for-Enterprise-Apps.htm ReadWriteWeb June 17, 2010 Socialtext is adopting Twitter annotations for a new service it is calling Socialtext Connect. The service is a method for connecting legacy apps by surfacing events that appear in an activity stream. Socialtext Connect will provide the ability for events from these systems to be passed as a message that people or machines can subscribe to and follow. An application could subscribe to another application that triggers an event such as a reminder to a system to replenish an inventory system. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/06/socialtext-brings-the-twitter.php VentureBeat June 16, 2010 One of the challenges facing business social networking tools is that they might not connect meaningfully with workers’ day-to-day activities. Socialtext is tackling part of that problem with a new service called Socialtext Connect, which adds social features to existing enterprise applications. http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/06/16/socialtext-connect/ CMS Wire June 16, 2010 Essentially, Socialtext Connect is a bridge to information inside an app that's traditionally unavailable unless you're a user of the app. Built on open standards, the tool enables companies to access critical info and stream it into Socialtext's social software platform. From there, employees across an organization can view and collaborate. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/socialtext-connect-unearths-critical-enterprise-information-007822.php CIO June 1, 2010 The 2010 CIO 100 Awards honor 100 companies that are creating new business value by innovating with technology. Food flavoring manufacturer FONA International has deployed an internal social network called FONApedia, which runs on Socialtext's software-as-a-service platform. The platform is designed to disseminate market changes, best practices and ideas, and employees can update it themselves. One result: Workers send less email. http://www.cio.com/cio100/detail/2034 CMS Wire May 7, 2010 SocialPoint, the tool that links the Socialtext platform and SharePoint, just got some fancy new duds. Now complete with a microblogging system and searchable directory, the SocialPoint upgrade aims to enable more productivity in a familiar environment. The Socialtext platform has a feature called Socialtext Signals, which is more or less the company's internal, enterprise-y version of Twitter. The new Socialpoint allows this feature to be integrated into SharePoint, meaning you can post and view messages from the comfort of your own platform without having to worry about security. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/socialtext-integrates-microblogging-and-people-search-with-sharepoint-2010--007469.php The Mercury News May 3, 2010 Social media — complete with Facebook-like status updates, profile pages and networks of social connections — is coming to your office cubicle. "People are bringing their Facebook experience into the enterprise," said Rob Koplowitz, an analyst with the research firm Forrester. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15009940 Harvard Business Review April 16, 2010, 10:15 AM At Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Ladies Home Journal and Better Homes & Gardens, microblogging tool Socialtext Signals is the platform of choice. Using Signals, the marketing function can post alerts to employees and partners on a wide range of marketing issues, such as researching competitors, brainstorming new ideas for a direct marketing campaign, or analyzing the outcomes of current campaigns. Says Dave Ball, Vice President of Consumer Marketing for Meredith, "Signals allows us to break down the silos and easily share information with each other internally. We also use Signals to communicate with groups of external vendors, so we can brainstorm current campaigns with them, propose new ideas and share best practices. It is amazing how much we have cut down on email traffic while increasing our productivity." http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/04/use_microblogging_to_increase.html TechCrunch March 3, 2010 Today, Socialtext, the developer of an enterprise social software platform built around microblogging, is rolling out a more powerful version, called Socialtext 4.0, of its collaboration applications. One of the features users were asking for was the ability to create groups within their Socialtext applications. So now, you can create collaborative groups within your Socialtext app, that comes with a group home page including an activity stream of group member updates, a dedicated microblogging channel, and one or more workspaces. Collaborative Groups can be synced with other groups and can also be configured for privacy needs. A group can be listed, with its membership designated as either “request-to-join” or open. Alternatively, a group can be unlisted, which makes it completely private. http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/03/socialtext-4-0-launches-with-groups-better-search-and-activity-stream-filtering/ CIO March 3, 2010 One year after it added Signals, a Twitter-like microblogging component, to its eponymous enterprise social networking and collaboration suite, Socialtext is giving users features to manage that stream of posts. Version 4.0 of the Socialtext suite, released on Wednesday, lets users segment the Signals stream by creating channels, find Signals posts using a search engine and slice their profile activity streams to view posts from specific groups and people. "Because of Signals' popularity, activity streams are becoming more voluminous, so we've added activity stream filtering," said Eugene Lee, Socialtext's CEO. http://www.cio.com/article/563413/Socialtext_Adds_Tools_to_Manage_Its_Twitter_Like_Stream ReadWriteWeb March 3, 2010 Socialtext is one of the smarter companies we cover in the enterprise space. The people there have an intellectual bent. Co-Founder Ross Mayfield is a thought leader and one of the original pioneers of the social Web. He's one of the thought leaders. And the CEO, Eugene Lee, is one of the more eloquent people we run across in the interviews we do. Socialtext came into the market in 2002, long before blogs bloomed and years ahead of what we know of as the real-time web. As a result, they have an established client base. They were one of the first, if not the very first, to offer wiki technology as an enterprise product. Today, they announced a new version of its software: Socialtext 4.0. It's a far cry from its original technology. This is the era of the real-time web. And Socialtext has had to adapt. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/03/socialtext-is-one-of-the.php WebWorkerDaily March 3, 2010 Socialtext, the enterprise social network, collaborative workspace and microblogging tool, today announced the launch of Socialtext 4.0. The major updates in this release are centered around making it easier to use the app to work on projects, or in teams. Particularly useful is a new feature called “Collaborative Groups.” Using it, anyone can create a group on the fly, and each group comes complete with a group home page, an activity stream that shows group updates, a dedicated microblogging channel and one or more workspaces — ideal for creating a quick collaborative space for an ad hoc team to work on a specific project. http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/03/03/socialtext-4-0-adds-groups-channels/ ZDNet March 3, 2010 SocialText 4 has been released with more focus on process related and microblogging related issues. While this release is more technical in nature than previous releases, there is plenty to cheer up even the most curmudgeonly of Enterprise 2.0 observers. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1834 Internet News March 3, 2010 Forrester's Rob Koplowitz said Socialtext is doing what it needs to do to stand out in a competitive social networking services market. "What they've always been about is trying to be the first to develop consumer social media technology that is hardened for the enterprise," he said. "So the customers that like that are the ones that want to stay on the cutting edge." http://ardenal.info/tech/2010/03/03/socialtext-4-0-filters-twitter-like-signals/ eWeek March 3, 2010 The new release boasts a new Groups object to provide users with a "virtual gathering place," to rally around a particular topic or goal. Socialtext Signals, the company's microblogging tool, now lets users filter the short messages colleagues share with them by group. Socialtext Desktop lets users "flashback" from any microblogging message to see the context of the discussion at the time it was published. In this slide show, eWEEK walks through the new capabilities. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Socialtext-40-Supports-Groups-Microblogging-Channels-266276 CIO February 4, 2010 SocialText, founded in late 2002 and based in Palo Alto, Calif., is one of the earliest vendors to adapt Web 2.0 tools to the business world, now referred to as Enterprise 2.0. The integrated SocialText suite includes a personalized homepage called Dashboard where users can access employee profiles, wiki pages and other social networking features; a Twitter-like microblogging tool called Signals; and SocialText People pages, the equivalent to Facebook's profile pages. http://www.cio.com/article/530515/Microsoft_SharePoint_Three_Sleek_Social_Networking_Alternatives ReadWriteWeb December 7, 2009 Socialtext is "a collaboration service with real-time, microblogging integrations. In the past year, the company has continued to innovate - most recently with SocalCalc, the spreadsheet service that allows for multiple users to collaborate simultaneously across multiple documents." http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/12/top-ten-web-enterprise-product.php?p=2 CIO December 1, 2009 Tim Eby, general manager of St. Louis Public Radio (SLPR), was an early adopter of Twitter and "discovered the power of it in terms of communicating information, building community and sharing information," he says. When discussions arose about building a company intranet for the radio station, Eby aimed to make microblogging a part of it. http://www.cio.com/article/509425/Twitter_Alternatives_That_Are_All_Business?page=2 CMS Wire November 12, 2009 While enterprises continue to grab up various social software solutions for their internal environments, Socialtext, a provider of such solutions, is working to increase the business value of their offerings. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/socialtext-partner-program-provides-strategic-deployment-practices-for-social-software-006033.php CMS Report November 11, 2009 What can you do with Socialtext Desktop? Provide status updates. Ask questions, get answers. Share information. Keep current on what everyone is doing, and stay informed when content is updated. Find people, connect with them, discover new people. Access content in Socialtext workspaces; wiki pages, files, blogs, and spreadsheets. http://cmsreport.com/planet-cms/46/38173 Internet Evolution November 9, 2009 The Enterprise 2.0 debate is over. It's time to stop thinking about using social media in the marketplace and instead realize it has value and needs to be a part of your midmarket company. That's the message behind a whitepaper distributed last week by Socialtext, a Silicon Valley company that makes Web 2.0-based business software. The company is aiming to shift focus away from endless discussion about defining social media toward clear examples of how Enterprise 2.0 software can help companies grow. http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=184273 IT World October 21, 2009 “…you can pour a lot of information into a single cell of the spreadsheet, and turn them into very capable mathematical models or data collections…these can readily be shared across the Internet with your colleagues, and you can collaborate on them in real time…” http://www.itworld.com/internet/81845/thirty-years-spreadsheets Read Write Enterprise October 19, 2009 On this day 30 years ago, Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc spreadsheet program changed the way people thought about computers and how they applied to business. Bricklin remains a leader in the field and on this anniversary date is seeing his SocialCalc technology come out of beta and become a fully developed product from Socialtext, the company he has collaborated with since 2006. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/10/socialcalc-comes-out-of-beta-m.php Internet News October 19, 2009 Dan Bricklin co-created VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software. Now his new product, SocialCalc, is poised to make its debut. Bricklin calls SocialCalc the first distributed spreadsheet program because it's designed for collaboration. "I used to get 10 e-mails a day from different people with these reports," said Dave Ball, Meredith's vice president of consumer marketing. "Now, with SocialCalc, I can go in at one point in the day and see what's going on in all our active campaigns right now. It helps us distribute information and knowledge faster, so we can react more quickly." http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3844491/Spreadsheets+Creator+Goes+Back+to+the+Future.htm CMSWire October 19, 2009 Happy anniversary to the spreadsheet! That's right, thirty years ago today Dan Bricklin helped dream up and release VisiCalc, the world's original spreadsheet. "SocialCalc is the next logical step for the spreadsheet. As we move into the social world, as typified by a wiki where there is one current copy that everyone can work from, the spreadsheet needs to move there, too." – Dan Bricklin http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-media/socialtext-takes-beta-tag-off-socialcalc-a-social-spreadsheet-005806.php Information Week October 7, 2009 The real significance of something like SocialCalc: It says to me that wikis are about to morph from an e-mail alternative (an adjunct, really) into a self-styled space where you can really do stuff. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/10/socialcalc_coul.html