Recent awards and coverage of Socialtext in leading publications. http://www.socialtext.com/news/coverage.php TMCNet January 26, 2012, 6:00 am PST If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the past couple of months, then you’ve no doubt heard of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, which was introduced in the House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. SOPA called for a crackdown on copyright infringement by restricting access to sites that host or facilitate the trading of pirated content. SOPA, which was recently killed by sponsor and House Representative Lamar Smith, would have represented a fundamental change in the way the Internet works today and would have undermined all Software as a Service (SaaS)/cloud companies. If the bill had passed, it could have been a sign that additional countries could follow suit with their own legislation which would inevitably hurt businesses operating internationally and their ability to provide services in other countries. http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/259542-sopa-dead-but-not-forgotten.htm New Tech Observer January 24, 2012, 6:00 am PST Both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Representative Lamar Smith (R-Tex) have decided to postpone further action on the piracy bills that have led to some of the biggest protests in web history. With President Obama and FCC Chairman Genachowski both agreeing that some response to piracy is necessary, the fight against the first iteration of SOPA may be over, but the task of negotiating rational legislation is just getting started. We have seen generalizations about how piracy legislation would negatively affect American business and innovation, but there has been very little time to develop a better understanding of what these negative impacts might be. With this in mind, I had a chance to sit down with Eugene Lee, the CEO of SocialText, a social networking service provider for corporations that operates on the software as a service model, to talk about how SOPA, PIPA, and future piracy legislation might have impacted both his business and the SAaS industry as a whole. http://www.newtechobserver.com/2012/01/sopa-and-pipa-lets-pause-and-write.html InformationWeek January 9, 2012, 6:00 am PST Prior to the selection of Socialtext, some employees had started using Yammer for social collaboration. Bishop said his team decided Socialtext offered the same kind of microblogging capabilities as Yammer, but could also take over managing corporate content that had been stored in the wiki or in SharePoint. Socialtext got its start as an enterprise wiki software company and has layered on social networking features. The current version of the product is Socialtext 5.0, which includes the Socialtext 360 feature for matching contacts based on interests or specialties. Bishop said he found Socialtext easy to customize for a "very Motley Foolish" look that encourages employees to claim it for their own. The company's developers have even added custom widgets to the site, taking advantage of an API based on Google Gadgets and OpenSocial. The home page features a place for the latest video produced for internal consumption, often featuring one of the company's latest premium services or ideas about how to improve service to readers and customers. http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/commentary/social_networking_private_platforms/232301451/inside-motley-fools-enterprise-social-network Stark Insider December 29, 2011, 6:00 am PST Welcome to another Stark Insider 5 Questions. Today’s topic is one of our favorites: Leadership. We caught up with Eugene Lee, CEO of SocialText and friend of Team Stark to bring you the inside scoop on leadership lessons learned from musical ensembles. Eugene recently returned from TEDx American Riviera where he presented on this very subject. http://www.starkinsider.com/2011/12/5-questions-silicon-valley-ceo-eugene-lee-leadership-tedx-video-musical-ensembles.html ITBusiness.ca December 21, 2011, 6:00 am PST Six months ago, Blue Man Group had successfully performed before 17 million people around the world over two decades – but still couldn't find a way for its own 500 staff to share ideas effectively. That's where social intranet came in. The group, founded in New York in 1987 and touring the globe almost non-stop since then, called on Socialtext Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. to deploy a social intranet for its company-wide communications. http://www.socialtext.com/news/coverage-ITBusiness-Blue-Man-Group.php CIO Insight September 21, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext is that software that is used for businesses that are having problems with social media.Butch Stearns and Eric Lundquist talk with CEO of Socialtext, Eugene Lee, about how companies can take advantage of social software. http://thepulsenetwork.com/technology/cio-insight//09-21-11-socialtext/ Forbes September 13, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext, a long-time thought leader in enterprise social continues to be a leader in bringing new social capabilities to business, particularly in the mid-market. http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2011/09/13/the-enterprise-social-market-enters-teen-years/ CMSWire September 6, 2011, 8:00 am PST According to Gartner, Socialtext was one of the first vendors to position its product as a "social layer." As a seasoned soution, Socialtext offers a broad range of capabilities which include social spreadsheets, open social support and faceted search. Preintegration with SharePoint and salesforce.com, as well as a desktop client for rich activity feeds and file integration, make it a popular choice for some of the larger organizations out there. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/gartners-companies-to-watch-in-social-software-for-the-workplace-include-telligent-salesforcecom-drupal-012600.php Enterprise Irregulars August 15, 2011, 8:00 am PST http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/40611/monday%E2%80%99s-musings-a-working-vendor-landscape-for-social-business/ Information Week June 23, 2011, 8:00 am PST The AHA system uses the enterprise social network from Socialtext... Chakkarapani said the architecture is hybrid cloud, incorporating pure cloud services like Box, but with Socialtext installed inside the firewall as an appliance for better, more secure integration with Active Directory and other internal resources. http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/news/social_networking_private_platforms/231000313/how-american-hospital-association-combined-social-single-signon CIO Magazine June 22, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext, a social software company, introduced Socialtasks, a management tool that lets teams visualize and manage tasks in a collaborative work environment. Socialtasks, the company says, consists of three main features. The first is a page tracker, which allows you to record tasks with various statuses such as new, in progress or complete. Next is the "Page Watcher Bot," a function that monitors Socialtext workspace pages for changes in the task status, and then posts a message for the group working on the task or the manager of the team. Lastly, the new Form Builder lets users create a new wiki page that provides choices for status, priority, owner and more. http://blogs.cio.com/web-20/16364/enterprise-20-conference-touts-social-product-announcements ReadWriteWeb June 20, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext today announced three enhancements to its microblogging and enterprise social networking platform to help visualize and maintain workflows. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/06/socialtext-launches-integrated.php CMSWire April 20, 2011, 8:00 am PST Signals is probably what the social software vendor is best known for today. It's a microblogging app and an activity stream all in one. And it's where the concept of the social layer is clearly demonstrated. As Lepofsky explains, social is not just a feature that you tack on to your business systems, rather it's functionality that needs to be integrated into the underlying processes, making it a natural extension of how you work. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/socialtext-social-is-layer-not-a-feature-010789.php ReadWriteWeb April 13, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext announced today that it will release a virtual appliance that can be deployed as part of an on-premise or in the public cloud using VMware. The virtual appliance will provide all the features of the Socialtext software-as-a-service and its managed appliance. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/04/socialtext-launches-virtual-appliance.php Fierce Content Management April 13, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee says this product makes it much simpler for IT pros to install Socialtext as part of a virtualized private cloud environment. "As a SaaS company, we want to make it easy for our customers to run our software securely, whether that's in our cloud or securely behind the firewall in their private cloud. This new offering provides yet another option for our customers who have made a commitment to VMware inside their company," Lee said This move is consistent with their recent strategy to provide tools that make Socialtext the IT-friendly Enterprise 2.0 tool of choice. Unlike other companies that are trying to win the hearts and minds of end users first, Socialtext has made a concerted effort to create tools and functionality that make it friendly for IT pros. http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/socialtext-adds-virtual-appliance/2011-04-13 MIT Technology Review March 18, 2011, 8:00 am PST Rather than being made up of random posts about what someone ate or read, most Socialtext entries are created automatically as a result of collaboration with other people. These "in the flow of work" updates happen whenever someone does something productive in Socialtext that others in the company should know about—comments on a blog post, responds to a question, edits a wiki page, or tags a profile. The idea is that people demonstrate their value to the company not by what they say about themselves but by what they do. Already, Socialtext customers like Getty Images and the American Hospital Association (AHA) have replaced their intranet home pages with Socialtext. Before the AHA implemented Socialtext, employees found it hard to collaborate with each other on issues of health-care reform, says Karthikeyan Chakkarapani, director of technology solutions and operations. "With Socialtext, we were able to integrate it into our other enterprise applications and build a one-stop platform that people can easily access." http://www.technologyreview.com/business/36955/ KM World March 1, 2011, 8:00 am PST Much of the information that GT Nexus wanted to share was available in the company, but was stored on various hard drives and within e-mail messages. The goal was to find a simple, cost-effective method of sharing information. Atherton launched a knowledge management initiative that reflected the vision he had for the enterprise program and provided a clear requirements statement. “We went through a formal RFP process, talked to analysts and developed a short list,” he explains. “Our conclusion was that Socialtext provided the best solution for our needs.” Socialtext’s platform includes online workspaces, wikis, blogs and microblogging. “We wanted an easy way to collaborate, store documents and also to send Twitter-style messages to provide a quick blast of information companywide when needed,” says Atherton. GT Nexus constructed a social intranet called the Grid, which is organized departmentally. Content relevant to sales, HR and other departments is stored and accessed on the Grid. GT Nexus has successfully integrated Socialtext with other applications, including a cloud-based software product that tracks software bugs, and Salesforce.com. “The microblogging tool, Socialtext’s Signals, is used to alert colleagues to progress on sales deals or other time-sensitive events,” Atherton points out. “We also have a central location for our technical documentation.” http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Information-sharinge28094new-options-emerge-73956.aspx IT Business Edge March 1, 2011, 8:00 am PST When I interviewed Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee last month, he told me some of his company's customers were seeing real value from making their intranets the hubs of social activity. A hub is sorely needed. As I wrote in my post "Internal Silos Can Suck Life out of Social Initiatives," organizations won't derive much value from social information if it ends up in the same old departmental silos. Lee offers several snapshots of Socialtext clients that have added social features to their intranets, including Getty Images, The Motley Fool, Fona International and GT Nexus. The webinar wraps with two folks from the AHA, CIO Jack Mackay and IT Manager Karthik Chakkarapani. The AHA's intranet serves as a centralized hub for information management, aggregation and delivery. It combines features of the "new" intranet like social tools, and integration to software-as-a-service applications using single sign-on with more traditional intranet features such as news updates and a calendar. http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/making-the-intranet-a-hub-of-enterprise-social-activity/?cs=45780 eWeek February 24, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext launched its annual refresh of its software platform, this time adding instant messaging support for IBM and Microsoft programs, as well as business analytics from Google. While many enterprise software makers of late are preaching cloud-only software approaches, Socialtext offers a Web-based solution and an on-premises software appliance that sits behind the customer's firewall. Socialtext software allows business users to collaborate via modern communication tools, including private and shared workspaces, chat and status updates. Employees at Getty Images, Symantec and more than 6,000 other businesses use these tools to share information with their colleagues. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Socialtext-46-Leverages-Google-Analytics-IBM-Lotus-Sametime-595915/ InternetNews February 24, 2011, 8:00 am PST "Mixer, our social intranet built on Socialtext, has been adopted by 95 percent of our organization," Jennifer Fox, director of learning and development at Getty Images, said in a statement. "How do you put a price on an employee coming in and knowing they can find the information they need, know it's relevant, and be more efficient at their job?" http://www.ecrmguide.com/article.php/3926156/socialtext-brings-social-networking-to-corporate-intranets.htm Baseline January 28, 2011, 8:00 am PST Skill sets played a big role at Emergent Solutions, a consultancy based in Royal Oaks, Calif. It moved from a SharePoint solution to a Socialtext cloud-based application for handling discussions and project management for its 60 contractors located around the globe. “We had learning issues with people who didn’t use SharePoint and found that Socialtext worked better for us,” says Christine Cavanaugh-Simmons, the company’s co-founder. “We also were able to get rid of all our servers, and we now have everything backed up with Mozy on its cloud service.” As a result, Emergent’s contractors are a lot more productive. “People in different countries and continents are all working asynchronously, creating agendas, materials and presentations for our customers,” she says. “There’s no waiting for a weekly meeting or status update. People can engage each other in open conversations, provide feedback and feel part of the team.” http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Utility-Computing/Successful-Cloud-Implementations-103578/ ZDNet January 6, 2011, 8:00 am PST Socialtext has announced a program that will allow Yammer users to migrate to its offerings while saving money. Socialtext argues that a suite of collaborative social tools will always win against stand alone solutions. I agree. It has always been a major weakness of microblogging platforms that they are essentially a feature set within a much more important category. Therefore any company selling on the premise that microblogging for the enterprise can win is on to a loser. I view Socialtext as a comprehensive, enterprise class collaboration suite while I tend to think of Yammer as a microblogging tool that has add ons. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/socialtext-goes-after-unmanaged-yammer-users/2740 IT Business Edge January 6, 2011, 8:00 am PST Social software companies selling to enterprises "need to make products users love but IT loves as well," said Lee. Socialtext's early entry into the social software market in 2002 (with a wiki product) has given it ample experience in working with both business users and IT organizations, he said. That experience informs how it markets, sells and supports its products. Socialtext sees its broader suite of functionality (social directories, wiki workspaces, customizable dashboards), added security options (notably a software-as-a-service appliance that can be deployed behind corporate firewalls) and the ability to integrate Socialtext software with enterprise applications as key selling points for enterprises. Socialtext offers a "richer, broader growth path from microblogging," Lee said. While microblogging is a great starting point for social software because of its ease of use, the "real value comes from integrating it with enterprise software systems." http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/subtext-of-socialtext-migration-offer-yammer-not-enterprise-ready/?cs=44999 ReadWriteWeb December 23, 2010, 8:00 am PST The new version features several new features including an OpenSocial widget builder for both developers and non-developers, Google Analytics integration and a new HTML5-based mobile interface. The new features fit into the ongoing trends of putting development tools into the hands of non-developers, the increased role of analytics and HTML5 making its way into the enterprise. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/12/socialtext-introduces-html5-ba.php Internet News December 20, 2010, 8:00 am PST "Social software improves the connectedness of workers, promotes collaboration and helps capture informal knowledge," said Tom Eid, research vice president at Gartner. "Social software excels in business contexts that leave room for individuals to interact informally, brainstorm, explore ideas and encourage or challenge peers." Eugene Lee, CEO of enterprise social networking provider Socialtext, said he's not surprised by Gartner's aggressive revenue forecast. "From our perspective, we've been noticing the size of customer's deployments are growing quickly," Lee told InternetNews.com. "We've gone from the early days of experimentation around the tools to adoption at the department level. Now those departments are realizing it doesn't make sense to be operating in a silo, but to extend the benefits across boundaries — why give social software to just one department?" http://www.ecrmguide.com/article.php/3917901/bullish-forecast-for-enterprise-social-media-software.htm InformationWeek November 8, 2010, 8:00 am PST Socialtext 4.5 provides familiar social networking features like activity streams, user profile pages, instant messaging, group creation, workspaces, blogging, and user-defined control panels in a framework that integrates with traditional enterprise CRM and ERP systems. http://www.informationweek.com/news/ TechCrunch November 8, 2010, 8:00 am PST One of the major additions to the platform is a more powerful filters and search interface. With Socialtext Explore, users can find not just links to documents, projects, websites and more, but also see the microblogging messages, pages posts, pictures and files attached to shared work. It essentially combines search with bookmarking, allowing employees to see context around any shared work. Users can search microblogging messages by tag, a person, group, or date range. http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/08/socialtext-4-5-launches-with-more-powerful-search-salesforce-connector-and-more/ ReadWriteWeb November 8, 2010, 8:00 am PST Socialtext will announce the new version of its enterprise social media suite, Socialtext 4.5, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. The new release includes a connector for Salesforce.com, which will pipe activity streams from Salesforce.com into Socialtext. Also new in this release is Socialtext Explore, a new way for users to browse status updates by metadeta. http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/11/socialtext-integrates-with-sal.php CIO November 8, 2010, 8:00 am PST The Salesforce.com connector follows the launch in June of the company's first pre-built connector for Microsoft (MSFT) SharePoint and of the development platform that makes the creation of these bridges possible called Socialtext Connect. http://www.cio.com/article/634016/Socialtext_Revamps_UI_Adds_Connector_for_SF.Com Internet News November 8, 2010, 8:00 am PST "A traditional system like Salesforce.com has important information that's useful to more employees than just our sales, solutions and delivery teams," John Atherton, vice president of Solutions Consulting and Knowledge Management at GT Nexus, said in a statement. "The Salesforce.com connector will integrate this valuable CRM data into our social software platform, which spans our enterprise." http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3912051/Socialtext+45+Taps+Into+Salesforce.htm CMS Wire November 8, 2010, 8:00 am PST "Right now, employees waste a day a week looking for people and information," says Eugene Lee, Socialtext's CEO. "By bridging information silos and making it simpler for people to share and discover work with colleagues, Socialtext 4.5 accelerates business performance and the speed with which employees can serve their customers." http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/socialtext-45-searches-metadata-connects-salesforcecom-009120.php CMS Wire August 17, 2010, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST “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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST “…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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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, 8:00 am PST 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